Riceburner
Well-known member
Re: Ooops the police did it again.
How about charging cops the same as regular people?
How about charging cops the same as regular people?
https://twitter.com/CTVNorthernNews/status/545028363199320064
CTV hasn't put it on their main site yet but it turns out another bus impeded the way of a police cruiser.
The school bus driver hasn't been charged with anything yet.
I'd like to know how the judge came to this decision.
if all three drivers were compensated for their troubles, thats an obvious sign that he did it....lol
and this guy has been getting paid sincce 2009 ?
I was gonna ask who they killed this time...
Man passes cruiser with lights on in snowstorm
Dec 12, 2014
http://www.theweeklynews.ca/news-story/5203995-man-passes-cruiser-with-lights-on-in-snowstorm/
I don't get this one. I would pass if they were going abysmally slow too. Do the cherries make them gods? Talk about passive aggressive.
Point being that passing an emergency vehicle that has its lights on may create a dangerous situation. If that vehicle is looking for something specific and suddenly has to go from left lane to right, the passing vehicle has just caused a collision.
Shouldn't the driver of the emergency vehicle, I dunno, look in the mirror first?
I've been conflicted when I see an ambulance or fire truck in my rear view mirror on the highway because I am pretty much always driving faster than them and if I pull over and slow down for them to go past I'm going to be stuck behind them until they get where they are going because apparently emergency vehicles drive slower than my normal cruising speed on the 401.
I've also gotten behind cops with their lights on in snow storms as they drive to a call and been stuck behind them because they are going too slow.
I wouldn't have the balls to pass a cop with his lights on, though. It's just asking for a ticket. Not that I think it's deserved. Just like I avoid giving them the finger when they do something on the road that would otherwise get the finger from me (cops tend to drive really badly).
I passed an ambulance in snowstorm once. It was s-bnd on the 404 before it reaches the 401, about 5-6 lanes wide. It was maybe 2 or 3 lanes over on the left (hard to tell with the lines covered by snow) and I was doing 90, so it was probably around 80. The only reason the ambulance would have hit me is if the driver felt offended and wanted to 'teach me a lesson'.Point being that passing an emergency vehicle that has its lights on may create a dangerous situation. If that vehicle is looking for something specific and suddenly has to go from left lane to right, the passing vehicle has just caused a collision.
The emergency vehicle's driver may be looking for almost anything, that could well involve a life or death situation. The lights are there to warn you of their presence so that they can concentrate on the job at hand, not random drivers who might think that they are more important than an emergency situation. With all of that said if the driver of the emergency vehicle is trying to find the point at which a vehicle has gone off the road should he have to watch out for idiots too?
As to not pulling over; most of the emergency responders I've spoken to just want you to behave in a predictable fashion. People swerving from the left lane so that they can pull over on the right shoulder just create a hazardous situation. Get out off the road if the way is blocked, but otherwise just stay out of the way.
Yes... they should.
The emergency vehicle's driver may be looking for almost anything