Driver Gets Fined For Avoiding An Emergency Vehicle
We all know that if an emergency vehicles comes up behind you when driving, you should try and let it through. If you don’t let the vehicle through, you could be stopping the services from saving lives.
Normally, when an emergency vehicles comes up behind your car, it’s easy enough to avoid as you can simply pull over to clear a gap. However, how would you move if you were stuck at a red light? This was the decision that had to be made by Philip Lilley while he was waiting at a red light.
The two cars which had previously been sitting further ahead, one in the lane to his left, and one directly in front, had already moved out into the junction to give space. Now Mr Lilley was required to make his decision, either sit there and hold up the Police van, or move into the junction slightly to give room.
With only a moment to decide, he chose to move out and past the white line by about a yard. However, even though he gave way for the vehicle and let it get to the emergency, he was still fined and given points on his licence for crossing the white line and ‘jumping the lights’. It could be questioned whether he really did ‘jump the lights’ because as he was only around a yard over the line and he had no intention of actually breaking the law.
The Driving Standards Agency said that rule 219 of the Highway Code is ‘motorists should consider oncoming emergency vehicles but still comply with traffic signs’. However, Mr Lilley now thinks the same as I do. If people are going to be worried about getting fined and having points on their licence, a large number of people won’t move out of the way for these vehicles, this could result in lost lives.
So would you ‘jump the lights’ if you had to so that an emergency vehicle can get through? Mr Lilley has always done so in the past, no anymore though.
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