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Running A Red Light Due To Emergency Vehicle....
Today I was walking to work and at some traffic lights I regularly cross there were 3 lanes, all occupied waiting for the lights to change. A fire engine came along, blues and twos, the car it was comming up behind pulled forward right over the junction, ie through a red light, to make room. Camera took picture etc so driver will get at least an NIP, will the driver escape prosecution? Will they just check the date and time and believe him when he says he moved for a fire engine or will he have to go through weeks of pain and agravation to avoid points+fine. Your answers will help me decide what I will do if I find myself in the same position. Thanks!
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I don't know if the law has been changed but though they regularly do it even emergency vehicles had to obey the traffic and not run them. Some years ago an accident happened just outside Mansfield when a fire engine
ran the lights on red, hit a car that had the green and smashed into a sho causing several fatalities. I forget the result but I do remember the engine driver being prosecuted.
ran the lights on red, hit a car that had the green and smashed into a sho causing several fatalities. I forget the result but I do remember the engine driver being prosecuted.
i sort of did this once - but only because even though i was over the line, i was not in the line of other traffic because of the shape of the junction.
traffic was bad too so i dont think they could have gone on the other side. also because of railing and crossings etc. they pulled up behind me, sirens blaring and just waited...so i moved over.
i dont know if the lights flashed, but i never heard anything after that.
traffic was bad too so i dont think they could have gone on the other side. also because of railing and crossings etc. they pulled up behind me, sirens blaring and just waited...so i moved over.
i dont know if the lights flashed, but i never heard anything after that.
Easy to say you'll sit and wait when you've got an emergency vehicle directly behind you with sirens and lights.
I would make way for the vehicle either by driving in front of the stationary vehicle next to me or mounting the pavement.
In fact I have been stuck in a traffic jam in such a situation and a fireman walked down the middle of the road instructing everyone to get on the pavement to make way.
I would make way for the vehicle either by driving in front of the stationary vehicle next to me or mounting the pavement.
In fact I have been stuck in a traffic jam in such a situation and a fireman walked down the middle of the road instructing everyone to get on the pavement to make way.
As a rule of thumb keep yourself right first every time and worry about the engine driver later. Their emergency is not your problem and after all they are as liabale to prosecution as any other road user and you cannot be faulted for obeying the law if the powers that be decide to make an issue of it. Pulling over is a courtesy and NOT an obligation.
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