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Is it me?...
It seems like there are a lot of people on the road today who do not know what to do when a vehicle with red lights and siren approaches.
Not long ago I was responding to a MVA (lights, siren) on a four-lane highway, passing a car on the left (who did NOT pull over) when a car coming the other way did the same thing and just about hit me head on!
Also this summer, I was driving an ambulance with CPR going on in the back, long trip to the ER, etc. Two morons in pickups towing trailers thought it was OK to slow down and pull halfway off the road. Now, on a two lane highway with blind curves and hills, this was just about the same as not pulling over at all.
How about it - is it just me or is there an epidemic out there?
Not long ago I was responding to a MVA (lights, siren) on a four-lane highway, passing a car on the left (who did NOT pull over) when a car coming the other way did the same thing and just about hit me head on!
Also this summer, I was driving an ambulance with CPR going on in the back, long trip to the ER, etc. Two morons in pickups towing trailers thought it was OK to slow down and pull halfway off the road. Now, on a two lane highway with blind curves and hills, this was just about the same as not pulling over at all.
How about it - is it just me or is there an epidemic out there?
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Permalink Reply by Brian Dumser on
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Yield right of way to mail trucks????
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Permalink Reply by Brandon on
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Yep thats what i was told a long time ago he told us that Mail and Police was it that you didnt have to get out of the way for Fire Trucks Ambulances Or any individual vehicle with Flahsing lights on the Dash or Roof becasue its not an Emergency Vehicle well our POV's that is, i think mainly becasue in the state of North Carolina they Consider Red lights as what they call COURTESY LIGHT STATING HEY I HAVE AN EMERGENCY CAN YOU PLEASE MOVE OUT OF MY WAY? which is the most retard thing i have ever heard in my life lol
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Permalink Reply by Art "ChiefReason" Goodrich on
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I have looked at this phenomenon long and hard and I believe that it boils down to one issue:
a lack of respect on the part of the motoring public.
Everyone believes that their time is more valuable than everyone else's. Everyone believes that their emergency is a bigger emergency than everyone else's. Everyone believes that their existence is more important than everyone else's.
But...
Don't call them selfish. Those are fighting words.
I have heard a thousand excuses as to why the vehicle didn't yield to the big fire truck and it's all BS.
Bottom line is that, as long as people get a slap on the hand, they will continue to flip the middle finger at you and force you to stay behind them until it's convenient for them to turn at a corner.
Sucks, I know.
TCSS.
Art
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Permalink Reply by roy yoder on
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state of ga has a move over law now just passed it a year or so ago. it deals with a scene and stationary vehicles. you must slow down and be able to stop unless you move over one lane and still slow down. the law for responding with lights is that you can disobey any law, speed, wrong way ect. as long as you do with due regard to saftey to perssonel and property. must have automatic and audible warning device and red lights operating. if you are an unmarked vehicle (personnel car) you have to apply for a free permit and display it on the windhield and notify your insurance company. the fire chief has to sign for the permit. what this does is lets you do anything you want and when something happens its your fault even if your in the right. i am an instructor here and really teach about GRANNY GRUNTS and JOE BLOW. these two have paired up to cause us as much pain and suffering as possible. best of luck but until society takes the stand that we are not our own GOD and there is a right and wrong granny and joe win.
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and yes if a firetruck, an ambulance, a police car and a mail truck show up at a intersection at the same time the mail truck has the right away.
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Permalink Reply by kimmieflirts on
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I completely understand i"ve worked paid ems for almost 6 years now and my most notable story was responding to a mva off a major highway just after the off ramp. I was told by dispatch that it had multiple entrapments and it was definite rollover, pd, and fire where already on scene ( nextel dispatch has its advantages), but to make it as fast but safely as possible. So i'm driving up this a major highway at 0200, lights and sirens, no to much traffic and this tow truck drive cut me off with his lights on and in nj the speed limits 65 on this road so i was doing probably 75 he is in front of my ambulance and slows down so I go around him, then he proceeds to go around and gets off the ramp that i get off for the mva. He pulls over at the mva and one the cops i know sees me red in the face and comes over as i'm getting out of the ambulance. He asked what was wrong and i in not so polite words told him what happened. Needless to say the tow truck driver left with a smashed up car and enough tickets to lose his license i want to say it was ten but i'm not really sure. But the funniest part of the whole thing was he told the cop that "he was responding as an emergency vehicle to the mva" which of course meant i couldn't keep my mouth shut an asked "how you gonna move the car if i haven't gotten the pt out first"
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Permalink Reply by catfish on
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we have the same problem in ky.then they complain were in to much of a hurry.we had one time when the same person who would not move over when we got to the house the woman asked what took so long then her husband pulled into the driveway and it was the same car that would not give the right of way
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"Poetic justice" comes to mind!
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