Blues and twos
 

I was sitting at a set of traffic light today when a fire truck zoomed past light flashing and siren on.
Lights change and I easily catch up with him as he's not going that fast,now something didn't feel right about overtaking him even though I could have done so easily and he was doing about the speed limit.
Whats the official line about this? is it actually a traffic offence? or just something thats 'not done'.:saint::saint:

I thought this was gonna be a VMan thread, but alas he's no longer with us ... :P

REALLY?? I thought he was to become a fully paid up member.....

[Edited on 4-6-2004 by MarkyMark76]

Nothing against the law per se, but your overtake could become another overtake that the Fire/ Ambulance vehicle may have to makeshould you be hampered further up the road by a junction or another hazard and you have just slowed them down unnecessarily.
Another thought is that the pilot of that vehicle knows where the fire / crash or other incident is - you don't & it may be half way through your overtake that you find out.
Can't remember anyone ever going past me on the way to a job but if they can do it ( legally though:lol: ) they're welcome to!

I say fall in behind him and let him do all the hard work of filtering through the traffic :D

I thought things had gone remarkably quiet lately on the postings board. Has he been banned? Deej:puzzled:

Allegedly....
However could be a BIG publicity stunt...a bit like Jordan and Peter...:D:eureka:

I'd personally stay well behind them when they are on a shout !

I saw a fire engine on its side, on a round-a-bout once, where it had come round so fast it had toppled over...

Was enough to make me stay well clear of any 999 vehicle whilst it is on a shout !!

lier, u ride a 999! :lol:

oh alright clever clogs !!!!!!!:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

On the fire strike, everybody overtook my Green Goddess, but then we were only doing 50mph on the dual carrigeways, foot to the floor! :D

As Antonye said, let him open up the traffic and follow.

Matt, how did you get your goddess to 50, i think we had the blues & two's fitted just to let people know we would be there eventually. :lol:

Gordy.

Down a hill:lol:
Should have been painted yellow really:P

Why?

To make it faster??? :bouncy::bouncy::bouncy::bouncy::bouncy:

No, just so all the motorists out there would know straight away there was a very slow moving vehicle on the road by colour association alone.:frog: