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Oh no they will hit each other, someone call 911!


It's 999.


Is it? In EU 112 is legally mandated. Did they roll back after Brexit?

Either way the numbers are mostly legacy. On mobiles emergency calls are a special protocol, no number is really transmitted to the network. If the phone application recognizes a certain number it will initiate an emergency call. And quite often several numbers do it. 000, 112, 911, 999. (Admittedly it's many years I last tested it.)


It's always been 999 in the UK. 112 works on phones too, but that wasn't because of the EU: it's part of the GSM standard.





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