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What gets me is when you are driving along in your car, and you hear an ambulance siren behind you (along with seeing the blue flashing lights), all of a sudden all the cars around you just pull over, anywhere, stopping and blocking the ambulance in its tracks. Some of them just point their car towards the kerb and think that's okay. How on earth is that meant to help an emergency vehicle get past and are these drivers just brain dead or what?
... brought to a sudden stop by dumb drivers reacting like rabbits frozen in the headlights
Surely anyone with any intelligence would get right out of the way of an ambulance behind you with blue flashing lights. You'd pull over somewhere when it was safe to do so anyway wouldn't you? You find somewhere other than the middle of the road, for example a lay-by, bus stop, a driveway, entrance or exit to somewhere. I just visualise some of the ambulance drivers going crackers on how they are brought to a sudden stop by dumb drivers reacting like rabbits frozen in the headlights of an approaching car!
Quite often during the year I will experience a situation similar to this and I will keep driving until I see somewhere safe to pull in, indicating as I do so. This also happens to police and fire engines, whom I have seen sounding their horns to try and move these idiots out of the way. Perhaps they ought to make a "police camera action" type programme for TV showing these morons and where exactly they are going wrong. The odds are that there are probably some emergency vehicle drivers who read this site so please tell us what you think.
By: Gainsborough Lad
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It is amazing just how few medical emergencies seem to occur when there is half an inch of snow on the ground!
Vehicles are also stopped too quickly which could result in the emergency vehicle running into back of another vehicle, the best practice of driving when you know an emergency vehicle is approaching from behind is to view your road ahead for a safe place to stop and with plenty of room to stop, look in your review mirror and indicate your intention to stop and slow down gradually.
There are lots hazzards of driving scenarios, too numerous to mention here, where other motorists put at risk of the emergency vehicles having a collision and with a little forethought about our driving can help the emergency services get there sooner.
As it stands, if you watch the adverts on behalf of paramedics, the onus is on the paramedic drving to move around us.... we are suppposed to just give them room, which by mounting kerbs etc we are doing.
Bloody Peasants.
Even though I said in my previous post that I wouldn't move out the way and damage my car, guess what I did 2 nights ago.
Needed a new exhaust silencer and exhaust guard.
The one thing that REALLY gets me miffed are the retarded morons that follow the ambulance. You pull over, the ambulance ploughs past and the car that was behind you when this happend, pulls out and storms past without allowing you back in to the traffic flow so you then sit there for any length of time. Turd munchers!.
it pleases me that while my ONE vote doesn't make a real different, if I can cause about 10-15 deaths that might sway a few more people to vote for that lovely young chap Dave Cameron.
They have sirens and a blue flashing light for a reason.
It is not hard to guess who is behind the posting below, if everyone did this on this site it would probably shut down, grow up please,
Obviously my words are beating somebody into frustration.
Speedy