{"id":1182,"date":"2011-12-24T18:08:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T01:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2012-05-15T20:05:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T03:05:18","slug":"to-emergency-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/?p=1182","title":{"rendered":"To Emergency Vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Click<\/a>“When police cars, fire
\n engines, ambulances, or
\n other emergency vehicles
\n approach, using audible and
\n visual signals, yield the
\n right-of-way and drive at
\n once to the right side of the
\n road and stop until they
\n have passed.”
\n Judging by comments
\n made by drivers of
\n emergency vehicles, a lot of
\n folks here in Utah need to
\n have a refresher on the
\n above passage from the
\n state law, quoted in the
\n Utah Driver Handbook
\n published by the State
\n Department of Public
\n Safety.
\n Even though emergency
\n siren and lights are going,
\n some drivers seem
\n determined to stay on
\n course and not pull to the
\n right and stop, as directed
\n by the law.
\n in Salt Lake one
\n emergency vehicle, driving
\n in rather heavy trffic,
\n finally had to drift to the
\n right and drive along the
\n parking strip in order to get
\n through.
\n Sometimes a blaring
\n radio and the sounds of an
\n air conditioner may make
\n hearing an approaching
\n siren difficult. On the other
\n hand, an attentive drivert
\n should be able to detect the
\n siren’s sound as well as
\n catch the view of visual
\n signals.
\n Obviously, drivers should
\n not panic when emergency
\n vehicles are approaching.
\n Keep your head, drive
\n carefully and competently
\n in moving to the right so
\n that you don’t become a
\n hazard and cause an
\n accident of your own.
\n Drivers of emergency
\n vehicles usually are
\n especially safetyconscious
\n and will not force you
\n beyond your ability to get
\n out of the way. On the other
\n hand, don’t delay. With the
\n emergency vehicle, the
\n mission might be a case of
\n life or death and each
\n second may be vitally
\n important.
\n If you see an emergency
\n vehicle moving leisurely
\n through traffic with neither
\n siren or visual signals
\n functioning, you are not
\n expected to respond as in
\n the case of an emergency.
\n The vehicle may be en route
\n to “gas up” or to a wash job
\n or on some other routine
\n errand.
\n In such cases, the
\n emergency vehicle
\n normally will not be
\n pressing the speed limit, lt’s
\n authority to exceed speed
\n limits pertains only to
\n emergencies.
\n In a related situation, the
\n law provides that you must
\n not follow within 500 feet of
\n a fire apparatus responding
\n to an alarm, nor drive into
\n or park in the block where
\n the fire engine has stopped
\n to answer an alarm.
\n We understand that in
\n Orem, spectators crowded
\n in so quickly with their cars
\n in one situation that the fire
\n engines couldn’t get in and
\n police had to clear the way.
\n Teach your family the
\n special meaning the sounds
\n and visual signals from
\n emergency vehicles have,
\n and how to respond. Life or
\n death might hang in the
\n balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“When police cars, fire engines, ambulances, or other emergency vehicles approach, using audible and visual signals, yield the right-of-way and drive at once to the right side of the road and stop until they have passed.” Judging by comments made by drivers of emergency vehicles, a lot of folks here in Utah need to have… Continue reading To Emergency Vehicles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}