Seems to be a police and ambulance courtesy.
What does it mean when the ambulance lights turn off.
Ie a school zone speed limit must be complied with the ambulance may not exceed the speed limit by more than 30km.
Agency shows how drivers react to sirens and.
Emergency medical service ems providers have been driving to and from emergencies or potential emergencies with engaged lights and sirens for many years.
It does annoy me when the fire brigade always have sirens going in the early hours when there is no need.
The ambulance did not use lights sirens.
Say some cyclist with a broken arm.
Don t fail to yield right of.
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.
If we are to go through a red light etc then sirens are to be going as well.
Does this mean that they don t care.
Marie paramedics are now driving their first ambulance with the new red and blue flashing lights rather than the familiar red and white.
The truth about ems use of lights and sirens.
Even if the lights are off it can still be an.
An ambulance driver can actually get in big trouble for driving with lights on but no siren through streetlights and such lights on they re still in a working situation and there s usually a person patient in there but time isn t of the essence.
That said if the lights are activated without a siren it is possible that someone just forgot to turn the switch off.
Also it s hard to work on a patient with the siren blaring.
After a string of fatalities from ambulance involved collisions in 2012 this video created by a n j.