Thursday, as I was coming home from having lunch with a friend, I was heading east and stopped at a red light at the intersection. I was three (I think) cars back from the intersection. All of a sudden I hear whoop-whoop-whoop! and see flashing lights in my rear view mirror.
Yep. An ambulance running Code 3. It pulled into the westbound lane of the street and prepared to enter the intersection. Code 3 remember. The nose of the ambulance was poking into the intersection and waiting for the north-south traffic to halt (even though it had the green signal).
I counted EIGHT cars that failed yield the right-of-of way to the ambulance.
The ambulance was far enough into the intersection that the opposing traffic could not have failed to see the flashing lights. Furthermore, only a totally deaf person would have failed to hear the sirens.
EIGHT CARS!!!! Can you believe it??
I really wonder about people sometimes.
What if YOU had been in that ambulance? With a heart attack? Or a stroke? What if you were in that ambulance and moments -- not minutes -- could make the difference between getting to the hospital -- and living.
Think about it.
And remember this: Emergency vehicles have the right of way over all traffic. Except a post office vehicle. Look it up in your DMV guide.
But I can't imagine a postal carrier demanding the right-of-way over an emergency vehicle. Can you?
EIGHT CARS!