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<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Boys, this will vary by legal jurisdiction. These comments are valueless unless placed in context.<br>Here in NL and as far as I know also in the UK, blue lights and sirens in your mirror are also no excuse for your own driving by the way, so you must not break any rules or otherwise drive dangerously to facilitate the emergency vehicle. Is that the same where you are?<br>In NL police have a blanket exemption for all traffic rules in the execution of their duty. In the UK there is a fixed list of exemptions, and driving the wrong way down a one way street is not one of them, for example. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 March 2019 09:19:48 CET, Warin <61sundowner@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/03/19 11:21, Sergio Manzi wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2019-03-02 00:59, Graeme
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<div>Being picky, but (at least out here) they're not exempt,
they're just allowed to break them :-) eg in an emergency, an
ambulance can go through a red light, but if they cause an
accident by doing so, the driver will be charged (& they
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<p>Sorry, but I'm inclined to categorize the above as BS, or "fake
news", if you prefer, until you provide evidence (in which case
I'll apologize and eat my words).</p>
<p>In every street code I know of, emergency and law enforcement
vehicles with alarm and light turned on HAVE PRECEDENCE on the
traffic, regardless the status of traffic lights, with all the
legal implications that derive from that.</p>
<p>Sure, an ambulance driver who has caused an accident will be
investigated, but NOT for having burned a red traffic light (<i>they'll
asses if he/she was DUI and stuff like that...</i>)</p>
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If going through the red light causes an accident .. they can be
charged, charged for negligent driving or driving in a manner
dangerous, but they will all reference the red light as requiring
caution and the accident itself as proof.<br>
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