Driving Me Crazy – VII
October 14th, 2006 . by CaryToday, boys and girls, we learn what to do in the event an emergency vehicle with it’s light sna sirens comes towards our vehicle. Please note that these steps are assuming that you are driving on the right.
Step 1 – Make sure you can safely execute a lane change, signal, and move as far to the right as safely possible.
Step 2 – Stop your vehicle, and watch the emergency vehicle’s movements, as they may need to go where you are stopped, in which case you need to move your vehicle.
Pretty simple, yes?
Please notice that I said nothing at all about continuing on your oblivious way, blocking the emergency vehicle’s progress, nor did I mention stopping in the middle of the road with no warning or signals whatsoever so others around you have to take evasive action in order to avoid your vehicle. And I certainly didn’t say to use the emergency vehicle as a quick way through the traffic and lights ahead of you.
Can you tell I want to find a place where most people know how to drive, instead of just the fifteen or twenty percent of us here in the Valley of the Sun?
God bless you all, and please drive safely.
Okinawan drivers act as if lights and sirens mean nothing. The only folks here that pull over are Americans. Pretty sad. The ambulances and police vehicles simply drive in traffic like every other vehicle because nobody yeilds.
I used to get extremely angry back home when I would see idiots that failed to yeild to emergency vehicles….grrrrr.
Pretty typical here in San Diego too.
It ticks me off – I want to follow those jerks and ask them how they would feel if they needed an ambulance, and it was delayed because no one pulled over…
Then, TMBWitW talks me out of being aggressive.
I love her for that.
I used to work for an ambulance outfit and know from the other side of the windshield what it can be like.
On the other hand I also know that some of the drivers like to use their sirens at 3 in the morning when no traffic is around just to wake people up…
Heh heh – that was to pay back the ones that blocked during the day…