The Best Response Video Thread
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lafd55 said:
Move right when you are traveling down the road and see an emergency vehicle approaching. Kind of hard to do when you are stopped at a stoplight several cars back in line and traffic continuing to flow for the green light preventing you from moving out into the intersection. So do you just sit behind the line of cars blaring the air horn and siren waiting for the light to turn green, or do you spot an opportunity of someone who knows the emergency vehicle needs to get thru, be it in the right turn lane, and opens up that lane for you to go into to proceed into the intersection? Not trying to be sarcastic, you just gotta think like an emergency responder and when responding lights and siren, just about anything works. Within reason.
I never said anything about waiting behind cars to get out of the way, unless you can find where I did.... Slowly go in opposing traffic, especially when it's only a few car lengths away from the intersection, it shouldn't be a problem... You never seen any videos of this?RyanZ71 said:
I agree with the others, there are times that passing on the right is not only acceptable, it's the only option. For example, I've got a couple of intersections in my district that going into oncoming traffic isn't an option because of very limited sight distance for oncoming traffic. I've also got a couple that traffic is separated by a Jersey wall. Given the right conditions, passing on the right isn't as dangerous as you're making it out to be.
SomeBloke said:
I wish these European agencies would either...
1) stick with blues-and-twos
OR
2) use a siren with a proper wail and yelp waveform
vonirkinshtine said:
My understanding is, it's deliberately pitched like that to pierce through car radios/music.
Maybe these are more to your liking;
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Very nice! Love the different siren tones between the two vehicles, that's key when a multiple vehicle response. Side Note: That white car was an A-Hole, passing cars that were pulling right and traveling with the Ambulance just to get into the business past the intersection...
How long would you sit behind a car like this before you got out and put a boot up the driver's posterior?
http://www.chonday.com/Videos/idodrigerm3
http://www.chonday.com/Videos/idodrigerm3
I'd forego the formalities of the siren and shout into the PA "Either move your f#%&ing dumb@$$ out of the way or we'll do it ourselves...with the TRUCK."
One of the very earliest examples of a lightbar in use by a UK (Gloucestershire) police force. Some Chief Constables were very much against the introduction what they considered to be a too American-look, and sound, to their fleets.
http://www.macearchive.org/Archive/...ucestershire-police-car/MediaEntry/29861.html
http://www.macearchive.org/Archive/...ucestershire-police-car/MediaEntry/29861.html
But when will you adopt high-visibility colour schemes for your cruisers?
I don't have an hour to watch this. Does the bike wreck out?
I was going 60 MPH once and a bumble bee hit me in the chest and knocked the wind out of me. I can't imagine going nearly 150 MPH and hitting that same bee.
I was going 60 MPH once and a bumble bee hit me in the chest and knocked the wind out of me. I can't imagine going nearly 150 MPH and hitting that same bee.
There is a popular misconception that until the introduction of the two-tone airhorn Britain was a land that resonated purely to the tinkle of the Winkworth Gong.
While that may have been true in London, other cities and towns did things rather differently. Here is a newsreel piece from around 1959-60.
In fact the newsreel was rather behind the times. Our local police had been equipping its patrol cars with friction drive sirens since the middle 1930s.
While that may have been true in London, other cities and towns did things rather differently. Here is a newsreel piece from around 1959-60.
In fact the newsreel was rather behind the times. Our local police had been equipping its patrol cars with friction drive sirens since the middle 1930s.
