Blue Light Aware - How to deal with emergency vehicles

[Mr Bridger]

This very informative video, Blue Light Aware, has been produced on behalf of the emergency services. It gives advice on what to do when an emergency vehicle is trying to pass you, including at junctions and red traffic lights.

 

[Tony Erikson]

Didn't know that about the solid white line.

 

Thanks.

 

Tony

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[DT Ralge]

Indeed, it's a useful video for those not in the know - that's a good few!

 

To the lad who braked earlier this week to a stop on the exit of Eccy Rd roundabout (heading towards St Mary's Gare) not in lane one but in lane two.

Keep moving if you have fresh air ahead of you - by doing this the paramedic would have had someone ahead of him moving predictably. If you had kept going you would have been much easier to pick off.

As it was, you braked to a sudden and panicky stop. Consequently, the paramedic had to nip in sharply between you and me but only managed it with space to spare after I braked to give him the gap.

Allowing a blue light free passage doesn't necessarily involve a stop and, if you do, make it predictable rather than sudden and panicky.