Seems to be a police and ambulance courtesy.
What does it mean if the ambulance lights turn off.
The change is due to a july 1 amendment to the highway traffic act which allows ambulances and fire trucks to use flashing red or blue lights.
Oklahoma city ambulance crews look at several things before they decide to turn on the lights and sirens when taking a patient to the hospital.
Don t fail to yield right of.
If we are to go through a red light etc then sirens are to be going as well.
No reason to stop traffic or run lights.
If the driver is catching green lights they may as well turn it off.
Non emergency ambulance runs are fine without a siren.
Does this mean that they don t care.
The truth about ems use of lights and sirens.
Even if the lights are off it can still be an.
So if the speed limit was going to stop an ambulance from arriving at a scene in time to save someone s life then the driver would be exempt from obeying the speed limit.
Agency shows how drivers react to sirens and.
Ie a school zone speed limit must be complied with the ambulance may not exceed the speed limit by more than 30km.
That said if the lights are activated without a siren it is possible that someone just forgot to turn the switch off.
The ambulance did not use lights sirens.
Say some cyclist with a broken arm.
Marie paramedics are now driving their first ambulance with the new red and blue flashing lights rather than the familiar red and white.
While there are exemptions to a number of driving laws this does not mean that you can do whatever you want on the road as an emergency response driver.
It does annoy me when the fire brigade always have sirens going in the early hours when there is no need.
After a string of fatalities from ambulance involved collisions in 2012 this video created by a n j.