South Moravia holds major rescue services drill

Emergency rescue services in the Region of South Moravia held a large-scale drill on Thursday, involving hundreds of police, paramedics and firemen. The drill simulated a multi-vehicle pile-up on the Czech Republic’s main east-west motorway, the D1, in which dozens of people took part as casualties. Traffic on the D1 was purposely slowed during the exercise due to concern that the drill could distract rivers and cause real accidents. In addition to field-testing the readiness of the regions rescue services, the exercise was also intended to test the capacity of the region’s sole trauma centre.