If you see blue lights flashing and sirens on while driving, you know how to quickly get your car off the road.
Every minute is important in an emergency, but safety comes first. In an effort to keep emergency services on their way as quickly as possible, it can be easy to suddenly start panicking, especially when you’re on a narrow street or a road lined with parked cars.
It can be difficult to miss vehicles like ambulances if you are on a busy road or need to move at the last minute. That’s why it’s important for drivers to stay calm and make sure they can drive safely.
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This not only reduces the risk of accidents, but if you run an ambulance, you can be fined up to £ 1,000 if you do it wrong, according to MEN.
The Road Code says drivers should give way to vehicles with flashing lights, including police cars, fire engines, ambulances and ambulance doctors. If you break the law while doing so – for example, entering a bus lane, entering a junction with a yellow box or driving through a red light – then you could face a fine.
In addition to the fine, some violations may add three penalty points to your license.
The Road Codes state: “You must search for and listen for ambulances, firefighters, police, doctors or other emergency vehicles using flashing blue, red or green lights and sirens, or flashing headlights, or road workers and accident maintenance vehicles, using flashing amber lights “
The code says that drivers must stop in front of a hill, never climb the curb, avoid exposing anyone else to danger and do not stop abruptly.
The Blue Light Aware website says: “Of course, there will be times when there is simply no room for an ambulance to pass, or maybe its crew is activated from its control room to respond to an emergency. while they wait with everyone else at the traffic light.
In these cases, they know that other drivers are not allowed to “skip” the red light and the emergency vehicle would ideally not activate its sirens and lights until it is safe for the vehicle in front to cross the solid white line at an intersection. .
In the (hopefully) rare cases where a vehicle with a blue light, in “emergency mode”, is sitting behind another vehicle at a red traffic light, it is important to consider that it would be very dangerous and illegal for the other vehicle to drive. move through the solid white line. “
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