Czech Highway Police Escort Slovak Ambulance on Life-Saving Mission
A cross-border operation between Czech motorway police and a Slovak ambulance crew became a race against time and traffic. The patient, fresh from a lung transplant in Prague’s Motol Hospital, needed to reach Slovakia as quickly as possible. Every minute counted.
When a Slovak ambulance set out to return a critically ill transplant patient home, it faced a logistical obstacle. Under Czech law, foreign ambulances cannot use emergency privileges such as lights and sirens within the country. Stuck in dense motorway traffic, the Slovak team risked losing precious time.
That’s when Czech highway police stepped in. Officers organised a rolling escort, taking over section by section to clear a safe passage through the country. Each patrol coordinated with the next, maintaining continuity across regions as the convoy advanced toward the Slovak border.
The final stretch was secured by Domašov motorway police units on motorcycles. With sirens wailing and blue lights cutting through congestion, they guided the ambulance through the last bottlenecks to the junction of the D1 and D2 highways. From there, the Slovak crew could continue unimpeded toward home.
The mission showed the best of cross-border cooperation — professionalism, speed and compassion converging on one goal: giving a man who had just received a new set of lungs the best possible chance to use them.
