What do you mean, we're too late?

The driver of a private ambulance carrying an urgently needed liver for a transplant operation has been fined and had points on his licence for exceeding the speed limit. And the justification?  Because it was a private ambulance it was not classified as an "emergency vehicle" and therefore did not fall under the exemptions allowed for such vehicles in section 87 of the Road Traffic Regulations Act 1984.  What a "jobsworth" decision - surely whether a vehicle is treated as an emergency vehicle or not ought to depend on the function it is carrying out rather than what type of vehicle it is.  I hope whoever made that decision never finds themselves desperately waiting for an organ transplant, while the organ in question carefully tries to pick its way through to them sticking to the speed limits - they might take a different view of things.