Before Mobile Phones How Did People Contact Emergency Services

Raidergal2022 | 17:59 Sat 22nd Oct 2022 | Society & Culture

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Before most people had mobile phones, how did people manage to contact emergency services?

For example say if you were out on a walk and collapsed and one or two people noticed you on the floor - they had no mobile phones. How did they tend to deal with the situation?

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Old_Geezer

They ran to the nearest kiosk.

naomi24

^Or someone in a nearby house would phone for help.

barry1010

Or the nearest shop or pub. There were also police boxes that the public could use in an emergency. The reality is that even 60 years ago most people didn't have a landline, never mind a mobile.

goodgoalie

I'll let you know if something like that happens - I don't have a mobile phone

sandyRoe

My brother, myself, and a friend, were walking to a park when we saw an old lady being knocked down by a car.
I ran to the nearest house and asked the woman who answered the door to phone for an ambulance. She couldn't have like the cut of my jib, she called the police.
When they arrived they called the ambulance.
You hear now that ambulances take hours to arrive. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

fender62

neighbor if they had a phone, or the redbox..

vulcan42

AA and RAC boxes were also available for road emergencies. Very few left now but they used to be on most major roads, around a thousand I think.

lankeela

What about the Dr Who Tardis police boxes? I remember one on the corner of Lordship Lane and the Gt Cambridge Road when I was little. Also a bell on the wall outside the police station or fire station.