I just hate it. This is not a blog about many clients who received traffic tickets for this, but it’s about common sense. Almost every day I see somebody do the following and it almost always causes an accident. When they are driving on a road with four lanes divided by a medium, and an emergency vehicle is coming the opposite way (on the other side of the road), people pull over to the right or slow down to a crawl. Let me be clear, the ambulance is coming the opposite way. There is a medium between the lanes, thus there is no way for the ambulance to come over to our side. Nor would it since we would have a head on collision, yet people slow down to a crawl or cross over three lanes to get all the way to the right. It just does not make sense. It’s just people not knowing what to do when they see an emergency vehicle. Their hearts are in the right place since they think they are being helpful. But their heads are in their rears since they almost always cause an accident. The same thing happens when they see a cop car with its lights on the opposite side of the road. Again, there is a medium between you and the cop, but for some reason, people decide to start driving 30 MPH under the limit when they see those lights. It is not what is required under the law and it is down right dangerous.

I am not talking about what you see in the picture above. I am talking a 6 or 8 lane road with a medium between the lanes of traffic. There is no logical way the cop or abulance on the opposite road can be affected by your driving, yet you stop. Or you move over. People just panic when the see those red or blue lights. Here is the law.

316.126 Operation of vehicles and actions of pedestrians on approach of authorized emergency vehicle.—