Red light camera question.

MrsE_2

Poppy9 wrote: »

What if it's a dual carriageway and you are stationery at the lights and one lane goes right or straight ahead and the other lane is left only?:p

OH is amused and frustrated by drivers who just don't move when he's trying to get through traffic. There is always one who sits there in his own little world oblivious to cars mounting kerbs, pulling onto cheverons etc around him and sirens blaring:rotfl: . Once when OH wasn't working and a ambulance was trying to get through he jumped out of his car ( I was driving), tapped a chaps window and politely asked him if he could move his car to let the ambulance through as he obviously wasn't going to move on his own initiative!

I'm always mindful of the fact that those flashing lights mean someone somewhere is in trouble & waiting on that help to arrive.
I know lots of people who will move for fire & ambulance but take their time for police/ My Aunt (when a young OAP) was broken into once & called 999 as they were breaking in, she said the time it took them to get there was the longest 5-10 minutes of her life. The police arrived just as they got through her door!
The people who think they are clever holding up the police forget it might be their elderly relative in that situation:mad:

I have gone up the pavement to give them room to get past:o One of the bonuses of driving a 4x4;)

ceebeeby

MrsE wrote: »

I have gone up the pavement to give them room to get past:o One of the bonuses of driving a 4x4;)

I thought this was illegal too ... glad me and my kids weren't on that pavement

Does seem a bit nuts though that you can't get out of the way of emergency vehicles by carefully going through a red light

MrsE_2

ceebeeby wrote: »

I thought this was illegal too ... glad me and my kids weren't on that pavement

Does seem a bit nuts though that you can't get out of the way of emergency vehicles by carefully going through a red light

I'm talking about an area where there are lots of cars & hardly anyone on the pavements.

I wouldn't do it if there were people anywhere near (& I mean I would give it a long distance) that part of the pavement.

Poppy9

MrsE wrote: »

...........I know lots of people who will move for fire & ambulance but take their time for police/ My Aunt (when a young OAP) was broken into once & called 999 as they were breaking in, she said the time it took them to get there was the longest 5-10 minutes of her life. The police arrived just as they got through her door!
The people who think they are clever holding up the police forget it might be their elderly relative in that situation:mad:

For some reason people assume that the police will abuse using their blues & Twos but the Fire service won't.

I like everyone has joked to OH when I see a pollice car going past with sirens blaring "Oh food's arrived at the station". Nothing could be further from the truth. In OH force he has to advise control if he's using his lights/sirens while responding to a call.