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29 July 2006, 08:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Rabid
If there is no red light camera I move for emergency vehicles, however if as happened to me last year a police car comes up behind, sirens wailing and there is a camera I just sit there until the lights change. The pigs in the car were jumping up and down in their seats and screaming at me to move, as if I'm going to take 3 points for their 'emergency' 
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.Ambulance drivers and firefighters don't have the same power, of course.
29 July 2006, 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted by AndyC_772
Surely in this case the right thing to do would indeed be to have gone through the red light, because you're being signalled to do so by a police officer, and motorists are obliged to follow instructions given to them by the police.
Ambulance drivers and firefighters don't have the same power, of course.
Ambulance drivers and firefighters don't have the same power, of course.
No, i thought not.
This is from Tuts Bird's earlier post:-
A Met Police website (http://www.met.police.uk/mpds/courses.htm) states:
Although police and other emergency vehicles have legal exemptions from certain traffic regulations, the use of warning equipment does NOT give an Emergency vehicle the right of way but merely alerts members of the public to its presence and that it is responding to an urgent matter.
Although police and other emergency vehicles have legal exemptions from certain traffic regulations, the use of warning equipment does NOT give an Emergency vehicle the right of way but merely alerts members of the public to its presence and that it is responding to an urgent matter.
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Originally Posted by Rabid
The pigs in the car were jumping up and down in their seats and screaming at me to move
30 July 2006, 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by AndyC_772
That's the signal - not the blue lights. Why should it be any different to a police officer opening his window and waving you to pull over?
No amount of waving, lights, sirens or screaming will get me to move through a red light which has a camera because I will then be prosecuted for doing so.
Therefore the murder, heart attack or fire victim will just have to wait due to the intransigent nature of the law in England.
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