Type of Incident: MVA
Do you know that it is illegal to pass an emergency vehicle while it is driving with it's emergency lights and siren on? Well, it is around our neck of the woods.
DRIVER HANDBOOK STATES; (direct from the book) "... When an emergency vehicle (ambulance, fire or police) is approaching you from any direction and is sounding a siren, you must yield the right-of-way by: immediately moving clear of any intersection drive as closely as possible to the right curb or edge of the two-way roadway pulling right or left to the nearest curb on one-way streets stop until the emergency vehicle has passed and check that no other emergency vehicles are approaching. You must not follow within 150 metres of any emergency vehicle that has siren or lights operating..."
Do you know Mr. Blue Ford Taurus, that if you pass our rig and swerve in front of us while we are on route to an elderly, extremely distraught woman trapped in an auto accident, you will not only possibly endanger someone, but really piss me off because my driver will be forced to slow down to avoid your rear bumper?
Do you know Mr. Blue Ford Taurus, that as you pass our said emergency vehicle you are in fact close enough for my driver to dictate to me your license plate number?
Do you know Mr. Blue Ford Taurus, that if I note your license plate number, and give it to a police officer working the wreck with an elderly, extremely distraught woman, said police officer might just get just as pissed off as we are?
And finally, do you know Mr. Blue Ford Taurus that it is possible for the police officer to follow up on a report of reckless driving and passing an emergency vehicle hours after the incident? I bet Mr. Blue Ford Taurus guy, by now you do. Because I followed up with said police officer and I happen to know that you have been ticketed, fined and will now have demerits on your license.
Sometimes, I just want to hug cops!!!
Drivers, especially future drivers need to be taught a very important lesson: The FIRE TRUCK is the big red vehicle. Get off your iPhone, unplug the iPod from your ears, turn down the radio and stop listening to Lady Gaga or Usher or what the hell ever...quit applying your make-up, quit brushing or flossing your teeth, drink your beer AFTER (not before) you drive, quit texting your BFF, quit reading your paper, quit playing with your Tom Tom... look up, pay attention to driving! The fire truck is the big red thing with flashing lights and making all the noise with sirens.
Seriously, what part of this do people not understand? YES! The rules do apply to you too Mr. Blue Ford Taurus. Emergency vehicles have sirens and lights for a reason and fire trucks ALWAYS have the right of way under every circumstance. I've been saying it for years, the DMV shouldn't just be giving eye tests, they need to be giving IQ tests too because the bottom line is, that some people have driver's licenses that shouldn't.
Yes, we long for the days when our rigs will be equipped with phasers like those from the Star Trek series. Push it... and ZAP! Bad drivers vaporized!!
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