Emergency Vehicle/Red Light Question

[Grahamm]

But i have a mate who lives there so have popped round his house then sat like a total plum at these lights that haven't picked up the sense that my bike is even there many times before.

There's a flip side to this...

At North Harbour in Portsmouth, they're building a new supermarket and have installed a set of lights so that traffic can get out from the car park onto the main Southampton Road. The place is still a building site at the moment, so they've got metal barriers around the place and across the road leading to the car park.

Unfortunately the gates are obviously triggering the induction loop which seems to be prioritised for traffic that will be coming out of the car park, so the lights on the main road are constantly changing to red to allow this non-existent traffic out!

[Grahamm]

Add to that, is it such a great idea to sell high explosives to the general public?

Technically gunpowder is a low explosive, not a high explosive, but I certainly think that selling them to the public should have been stopped long ago.

You can see much bettern fireworks at organised displays and there's so much less danger of someone being injured, let alone (as happened down here on Bonfire Night) people setting up an impromptu display at the end of the road!

Also you can now get Quiet Fireworks which makes things less stressful for animals.

This is also true for PTSD sufferers and, IMO, these fireworks should be the only ones available. If you were near QA Hospital around November 5th it was like World War III out there

[darrsi]

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Add to that, is it such a great idea to sell high explosives to the general public?

Technically gunpowder is a low explosive, not a high explosive, but I certainly think that selling them to the public should have been stopped long ago.

You can see much bettern fireworks at organised displays and there's so much less danger of someone being injured, let alone (as happened down here on Bonfire Night) people setting up an impromptu display at the end of the road!

Also you can now get Quiet Fireworks which makes things less stressful for animals.

This is also true for PTSD sufferers and, IMO, these fireworks should be the only ones available. If you were near QA Hospital around November 5th it was like World War III out there
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These days around my area it's not Bonfire Night that's noisy, but Diwali.
And they don't hold back when they buy their fireworks, some of which resemble bombs going off, and they will go on for 6hrs solid each night for about a week.
There's also a temple in the next road up from me which holds their own display so even with my windows shut you can barely hear the tv, and the surrounding areas including my road look like a BMW car park. It's a particular time of year i'm not too fond of.
You can only imagine how downhill the air quality goes, and those fireworks have to land somewhere too, but whatever you do.........don't drop a cigarette on the floor, [size=1em]or you'll get nicked.[/size] mokin :lol

[maddog04]

happy new year everyone, hope Santa brought you everything you wanted


ref the original question, blue light drivers have to be very careful passing a Red, it must be treated as a give way but any accident will see the driver of the emergency vehicle get fucked over by their organisation and then the law.....their Unions will leave them out on a limb as there's no recourse in law. Please remember this when emergency services (ES) approach you on the road. Our drivers are told to turn everything off once you hit standing traffic (traffic lights) as we shouldn't be encouraging the public to break the law/panic. Many people panic when we approach, they stop on hills/blind bends etc....just keep going at normal road speed coz we will pass you when safe to do so. I've heard anecdotal evidence of traffic moving through a Red to allow ES through and camera has operated......some won in court, some lost......appears a lottery to which ever judge you get and how they read the law determines your fate......TAKE THAT CHOICE AWAY FROM THEM AND DO NOT JUMP A RED
believe me, you sitting at a red for seconds is nothing compared to delays in the big picture (ie all ES not being deployed at the point of call....(Golden Hour).....ES crews unavailable due to cuts etc). Drive safe and stay stay safe, look after no. 1