Way to go den ...

[geoff]

sticking to the speed limit is just dangerous

[dennis]

This is obvious as speeders are usually bad drivers in more ways than speeding. Just read what the bad drivers have posted here. Some of them even think its impossible not to have an accident in 300,000 miles of driving just because they have had a few and they are "good" drivers.

[Rod]

And on which planet can you sensibly 'pull over and let them pass'? The worst road in my town (IMO) has a bus lane along much of it. You are prohibited from doing so. As it is on many, many roads throughout the country.

[Mark]

Even Michael Schumacher does that!

[Andy Dingley]

You can't both tailgate a limit-observing motorist _and_ speed.

[Huge]

people down to walking pace before now.

[Huge]

Logic was never Dennis's strong point.

[dennis]

Technically you can, but I will leave you to work that out. 8-)

[The Natural Philosopher]

..ands then speed up as they overtake you?

[Andy Hall]

I think that it must be a religious thing. Here's a recent article:

The other day I went up to a local Christian bookstore and saw a honk if you love Jesus bumper sticker.

I was feeling particularly sassy that day because I had just come from a thrilling choir performance, followed by a thunderous prayer meeting, so I bought the sticker and put in on my bumper.

I was stopped at a red light at a busy intersection, just lost in thought about the Lord and how good He is and I didn't notice that the light had changed.

It is a good thing someone else loves Jesus because if he hadn't honked, I'd never have noticed.

I found that LOTS of people love Jesus. Why, while I was sitting there, the guy behind started honking like crazy, and when he leaned out of his window and screamed, "for the love of God, GO! GO!" What an exuberant cheerleader he was for Jesus.

Everyone started honking! I just leaned out of my window and started waving and smiling at all these loving people.

I even honked my horn a few times to share in the love. There must have been a man from Florida back there because I heard him yelling something about a sunny beach...

I saw another guy waving in a funny way with only his middle finger stuck up in the air. When I asked my teenage grandson in the back seat what that meant, he said that it was probably a Hawaiian good luck sign or something.

Well, I've never met anyone from Hawaii, so I leaned out the window and gave him the good luck sign back.

My grandson burst out laughing, why even he was enjoying this religious experience.

A couple of the people were so caught up in the joy of the moment that they got out of their cars and started walking towards me.

I bet they wanted to pray or ask what church I attended, but this is when I noticed the light had changed.

So, I waved to all my sisters and brothers grinning, and drove on through the intersection.

I noticed I was the only car that got through the intersection before the light changed again and I felt kind of sad that I had to leave them after all the love we had shared, so I slowed the car down, leaned out of the window and gave them all the Hawaiian good luck sign one last time as I drove away.

Praise the Lord for such wonderful folks!

[ARWadworth]

You do not want to pull onto a bus lane

Adam

[Rod]

There have been mentions over on legal of similar things that most of us would regard as sensible in order to permit an ambulace to pass. Often things like this only start to be treated sensibly again after a major issue (e.g. patients proved to have died because drivers are too intimidated to get out of the way). But it would probably take an exceptional case to provide such proof, so will not occur any time soon.

[The Medway Handyman]

My daughters main complaint is that people don't get out of the way when they see a large flourescent yellow/green ambulance with flashing blue lights - assuming they actually notice it in the first place.

She ran over a dog a few months ago, it was on a lead at the time. Woman walking it had stopped at a Zebra crossing. Bex approached on blues & twos, used the repeater siren. Woman walked onto the crossing in front of her, then 'spotted' the ambulance & stepped backwards - leaving the dog on the end of the lead.

Since it was a dog & had to be reported to the police, she had to radio control for another ambulance to collect the cardiac arrest patient in the back of her truck - who fortunately survived.

[Andy Hall]

I've always wanted a set of those on my car. The sirens and lights I mean, not the fluorescent excessences.

They have great repeater sirens in Moscow - loud and low pitched honking sound. I would *really* like one of those.

I suppose that the dog didn't?

(Is Bex short for Bexley, BTW? :-) )

[<me9]

I usually pull in to the side as much as possible, but I often wonder if their progress is made more difficult by all these people slowing down and getting in the way by doing so.

[Rod]

That is a reasonable question. And difficult to answer even if we understood all the details of the speicfic situation.

I start looking around as soon I hear a siren - and we certainly get a lot of them. The other day I saw an ambulance coming towards me - but their side of the road was solid. I indicated and pulled over into a convenient parking bay/thing - so the motorcyclist behind me overtook me

- head on towards the ambulance which was now on my side and moving at speed.

I am sure that I have made the wrong decision at times. Impossible always to do the best thing.

[Andrew Gabriel]

I started instinctively pulling over to let a police car approaching me from behind pass before realising it wouldn't fit. At that point I decided best thing to do was to continue, and I sped up. Then it occurred to me that this looked horribly like a police chase of the type I've often seen on those police camera programs - them chasing me at significantly above the speed limit. About a 1/3 mile later, there was space to pull off, which I did, and the police car shot past.

[Andy Hall]

Usually happens just before about 1600.....

[The Medway Handyman]

No, brown bread.

Bex stationed at Bexley.

[The Medway Handyman]

What they really want is for people (a) to notice them & (b) to indicate clearly what they intend to do.