Driver responses to emergency service vehicles
#32
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Re: Driver responses to emergency service vehicles
What was that 80's film which was meant to be based on a true story where the guy goes to Haii and gets mixed up with zombie stuff?
#36
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Re: Driver responses to emergency service vehicles
Shadowman is a fab zombie/voodoo videogame
#37
Re: Driver responses to emergency service vehicles
Its been a while since I've had a rant about anything, so must be time for one, and I was treated to a grand spectacle of a near accident ironically caused by a fire engine passing this morning that made me think of it!
As if driving over here isn't bad enough already, one thing that really ticks me off is the general driver responses to approaching emergency service vehicles here. To put it bluntly, its nothing short of a cluster****. Seems that when an ambulance or fire engine is approaching, a mass panic always ensues. Some cars just stop dead in the middle of the road; some get over on the verge, some even get over on the other side of the road . The result is that the driver of the ambulance or whatever has to drive around the chaos and second guess this random craziness by the drivers, which makes his job even harder than if they had all just stayed where they were or just slowed down a bit to let him through rather than swerve around or just dead stop. And then, when he's gone through, you get some utterly rude people who lock onto the back of it as an opportunity to gain a few car lengths past the ones in the front who had all pulled over....arrgh!
Never did I ever notice anything like this in the UK - for instance, if an ambulance is coming in the other direction, it never causes a blind panic with people just stopping/swerving around etc like they do here. Also if one is coming from behind, it just seems that people handle it a whole lot more sensibly in the UK, i.e. either staying put or continuing along just slowing down as necessary to let it through, rather than the madness that ensues here.
Is there a law here that says you must get off the road at all costs, even if its blatantly unsafe to do so? I'm not saying don't get out of the way, but for some reason here, it just seems that people take leave of their senses to do so.
As if driving over here isn't bad enough already, one thing that really ticks me off is the general driver responses to approaching emergency service vehicles here. To put it bluntly, its nothing short of a cluster****. Seems that when an ambulance or fire engine is approaching, a mass panic always ensues. Some cars just stop dead in the middle of the road; some get over on the verge, some even get over on the other side of the road . The result is that the driver of the ambulance or whatever has to drive around the chaos and second guess this random craziness by the drivers, which makes his job even harder than if they had all just stayed where they were or just slowed down a bit to let him through rather than swerve around or just dead stop. And then, when he's gone through, you get some utterly rude people who lock onto the back of it as an opportunity to gain a few car lengths past the ones in the front who had all pulled over....arrgh!
Never did I ever notice anything like this in the UK - for instance, if an ambulance is coming in the other direction, it never causes a blind panic with people just stopping/swerving around etc like they do here. Also if one is coming from behind, it just seems that people handle it a whole lot more sensibly in the UK, i.e. either staying put or continuing along just slowing down as necessary to let it through, rather than the madness that ensues here.
Is there a law here that says you must get off the road at all costs, even if its blatantly unsafe to do so? I'm not saying don't get out of the way, but for some reason here, it just seems that people take leave of their senses to do so.
I've seen people driving up the bumper of a blue light ambulance on the North Circular on more than one occasion.
#39
Re: Driver responses to emergency service vehicles
Sorry to go off the zombie topic for a moment
I have noted round these parts that the emergency vehicles seem to use the siren very sparsely. Given the the masses of neon and other lighting around, it is sometimes hard to spot them as soon as you'd like to unless they are lit up like a Christmas tree. Which, of course, at this time of year, is still no good.
I have noted round these parts that the emergency vehicles seem to use the siren very sparsely. Given the the masses of neon and other lighting around, it is sometimes hard to spot them as soon as you'd like to unless they are lit up like a Christmas tree. Which, of course, at this time of year, is still no good.
#40
Re: Driver responses to emergency service vehicles
Best RomZomCom
but best Zombie movie has to go to Wild Zero
with Japanese punk band Guitar Wolf
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0267116/
its kind of like the Rocky Horror Picture Show with zombies
#41
Re: Driver responses to emergency service vehicles
Haven't seen Zombieland yet, but I have heard it is pretty funny.
#42
Joined: Jan 2008
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Re: Driver responses to emergency service vehicles
I've started a poll on zombie related matters.
Gentlemen - choose your weapons.
Gentlemen - choose your weapons.
#43
Re: Driver responses to emergency service vehicles
Sorry to go off the zombie topic for a moment
I have noted round these parts that the emergency vehicles seem to use the siren very sparsely. Given the the masses of neon and other lighting around, it is sometimes hard to spot them as soon as you'd like to unless they are lit up like a Christmas tree. Which, of course, at this time of year, is still no good.
I have noted round these parts that the emergency vehicles seem to use the siren very sparsely. Given the the masses of neon and other lighting around, it is sometimes hard to spot them as soon as you'd like to unless they are lit up like a Christmas tree. Which, of course, at this time of year, is still no good.
In our small town the emergency services seem to delight in using sirens in the middle of the night, despite the fact that they are the only vehicles on the road. Don't they know that the baddies will hear them coming?
#44
Re: Driver responses to emergency service vehicles
Best RomZomCom
but best Zombie movie has to go to Wild Zero
with Japanese punk band Guitar Wolf
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0267116/
its kind of like the Rocky Horror Picture Show with zombies
but best Zombie movie has to go to Wild Zero
with Japanese punk band Guitar Wolf
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0267116/
its kind of like the Rocky Horror Picture Show with zombies
#45
Re: Driver responses to emergency service vehicles
Sorry to go off the zombie topic for a moment
I have noted round these parts that the emergency vehicles seem to use the siren very sparsely. Given the the masses of neon and other lighting around, it is sometimes hard to spot them as soon as you'd like to unless they are lit up like a Christmas tree. Which, of course, at this time of year, is still no good.
I have noted round these parts that the emergency vehicles seem to use the siren very sparsely. Given the the masses of neon and other lighting around, it is sometimes hard to spot them as soon as you'd like to unless they are lit up like a Christmas tree. Which, of course, at this time of year, is still no good.