Give way for Ambulances?

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And in some circumstances, your best option, to clear the way for an ambulance is not to pull over but to keep rolling. There may not be anywhere safe to stop that doesn’t result in causing a new hazard, so best to keep moving towards where you CAN get clear.
I was coming up the A38 on Friday afternoon in a 6 mile+ tailback a Fire engine was trying to come up the middle of the 2 lanes, but cars immediately stopping was causing a total blockage as there was nowhere for the cars behind to go, what was needed was like a rolling zip cars only moving to the side once the Fire engine got up to them, but in the meantime slowly moving forward with the flow.
 

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DaveReading

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I was coming up the A38 on Friday afternoon in a 6 mile+ tailback a Fire engine was trying to come up the middle of the 2 lanes, but cars immediately stopping was causing a total blockage as there was nowhere for the cars behind to go, what was needed was like a rolling zip cars only moving to the side once the Fire engine got up to them, but in the meantime slowly moving forward with the flow.

The French seem to have grasped that better than us Brits.

Not just ambulances, but I've seen VIPs with a police escort carving their own lane out of the traffic on the N1 between Le Bourget and Paris. Everyone just moves over a little à gauche or à droit with a Gallic shrug of their shoulders and tout le monde is happy.
 

Tim Hall

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Unhelpful pedantic point:
Not necessarily. The ambulance could be stationary, or it could be travelling in a circle, at the centre of which you are located.
Even less helpful and more pedantic point: an object travelling in a circle is constantly accelerating towards the centre of the circle.

The trouble with uniformly spherical ambulances in these sort of situations is that they tend to be in a vacuum, so you've got no chance of hearing them.
 

Mr Celine

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I guess the extra burden on the average drivers brain overloads it or something and then anything can happen, I once seen a woman try to get out of the way of a fire engine by crashing into a lamp post.

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Best one I saw was here.

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I was half way across the road and standing on the traffic island when I noticed an ambulance coming down Albert Place with its blue lights on. As it approached the junction the driver put the sirens on as well, which caused all of the traffic on the main road to immediately stop. It also made the driver of the one car that was in front of it stop. Exactly where the silver fiesta is.
After a few seconds of deadlock I got fed up being deafened by the sirens so walked over, tapped on her window and yelled MOVE!
 
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