Today I witnessed an ambulance, all lights flashing, siren and horn blaring, held up at an intersection. Not held up by cross-traffic who didn’t see him, held up by traffic in front of him going the same way. No one even tried to get out of his way. No one! What is wrong with people?
Unless you are in the car crash that the ambulance is racing towards, there is no excuse on earth for not moving your car out of the way, where possible and safe. In this case, it would have required 3 cars to climb a normal curb. Something they’d all gladly do to park their cars on firecracker day. What could they possible have been doing that was important enough to put the life of another at risk?
I saw a similar incident some time ago. After the light turned green for the traffic going in the same direction as the emergency vehicle, nothiing moved. Traffic started to move only after the ambulance turned the siren, lights and horn off!
This happened again yesterday, on my way to the doctors office. An ambulance, with siren and lights flashing, drove into the wrong driveway. The driver turned around to come back out and duck into the next plaza instead. No one would let him go against traffic the one hop (about 30 feet). People kept driving by and cutting off his route. I finally leaned on the horn and manoevered my car into the live lane to cut them off. I nearly had the front of my car torn off for my troubles.
Come on, people! It’s an ambulance. Next time it could be saving your life!