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- From: Rick.Wilson@f2112.n327.z1.fidonet.org (Rick Wilson)
- Newsgroups: misc.emerg-services
- Subject: Hazard lights on emergenc
- Message-ID: <722554949.AA22346@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 16:37:00 -0800
- Sender: UUCP@remote.halcyon.com
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- Marc...
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- 11 Nov 92, Marc T. Kaufman writes to All:
-
- MTK> From: kaufman@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
- MTK> Reply-To: kaufman@CS.Stanford.EDU
-
- MTK> Rick.Wilson@f2112.n327.z1.fidonet.org (Rick Wilson) writes:
-
- >> Normally, if an ambulance/police car/fire truck is coming at you
- from
- >> behind, you're supposed to pull over to the side of the road and
- let
- >> them pass.
-
- >> Here in N.E. Ct. it appears to be customary that if a person pulls
- over
- >> to the side of the road, and there's another citizen behind them,
- the
- >> one behind passes...they don't pull over and let the emergency
- vehicle
- >> by.
-
- >> I've NEVER seen the stunts people here in New England pulled in the
- >> midwest...if they DID pull them in the midwest, they'd get nailed
- BIG
- >> time.
-
- MTK> On the other hand, I have had motorcycles pass me over a
- double-yellow
- MTK> line on a mountain road when I was driving an admitedly slow water
- tender
- MTK> code 3 to an incident.
-
- Well, when he splats onto an oncoming 18-wheeler, he won't be doing that
- again!
-
- MTK> And then there are the folks who will run over a line of flares
- and
- MTK> through the guy with the STOP sign to get past an incident...
- (Never turn
- MTK> your back)
-
- How about the people who run over fire hoses?? I
-
- I haven't seen anyone run over flares. That's a new one. I'm sure the
- local law enforcement folk would like to talk to him!
-
- Rick
-
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