Police appear behind me

wgl2014

If you post a link to the actual location rather than just the road and county it would be easier to give advice.

forgotmyname

Plenty of places to overtake, why didnt you stop?

As mentioned, done that road many many times and struggle to think of a 4 mile stretch where you could not allow them to pass.

Soot2006

In Brighton it was all over the news when a woman momentarily pulled into a bus lane to allow a police car with sirens on to pass safely at speed & promptly got a ticket for being in the bus lane. It's difficult for "normal" drivers to know how to deal with it sometimes; we don't all have nerves of steel driving.

DUTR

Soot2006 wrote: »

In Brighton it was all over the news when a woman momentarily pulled into a bus lane to allow a police car with sirens on to pass safely at speed & promptly got a ticket for being in the bus lane. It's difficult for "normal" drivers to know how to deal with it sometimes; we don't all have nerves of steel driving.

Unless she was driving a bus or taxi, she had no right to enter the bus lane.

k3lvc

DUTR wrote: »

Unless she was driving a bus or taxi, she had no right to enter the bus lane.

And when emergency services are doing their job to preserve/protect life should they have to worry about Joe Public not being able to move out of the way for fear of prosecution ??

lister

DUTR wrote: »

Unless she was driving a bus or taxi, she had no right to enter the bus lane.

Especially as the emergency services can use the bus lane in such circumstances...

k3lvc

lister wrote: »

Especially as the emergency services can use the bus lane in such circumstances...

Of course they can - but, as an example, if bus lane is blocked ahead and main lane is not then should they have to weave in/out of traffic or expect other vehicle to slow/move over without fear of repercussions ?

DUTR

k3lvc wrote: »

And when emergency services are doing their job to preserve/protect life should they have to worry about Joe Public not being able to move out of the way for fear of prosecution ??

No!, just stay calm and rational, what will be will be.....

Marvel1

DUTR wrote: »

Unless she was driving a bus or taxi, she had no right to enter the bus lane.

Ambulance behind me, they maybe attending someone having a heart attack or something, sorry I can't pull into the bus lane to let the Ambulance, the person they are attending is going have to try and hang on.

James_N

Car_54 wrote: »

The "official" advice is here

https://www.bluelightaware.org.uk/

The Blue Light aware video contains this advice about red traffic lights:

Don't go though a red light

Why then did I recently see a police van with flashing blues with its uniformed passenger leaning out and gesticulating wildly and shouting at motorists at a camera controlled junction who had failed to cross the white line and enter a box junction?

Or does this count as "clear direction" from a uniformed officer?