Driver Gets Fined For Letting A Police Van Through Red Light
If an emergency vehicles comes up behind you when driving, we know to let them through if we can. If you keep your course and don’t let the vehicle through, you could potentially be stopping the services getting to someone you know who needs help.
The majority of situations, you are driving along the road as an emergency vehicles comes up behind you and it’s fairly easy to get out the way. However, what would you do if you were sitting at a red light? This is the problem that car driver Philip Lilley had when he sat waiting at a junction.
The two vehicles in front on Mr Lilley, one to his left and one directly ahead, had already moved into the junction to allow extra room. Now a decision had to be made by Mr Lilley, either stay where he was and block the path or move ahead slightly into the junction to allow room.
With only a short amount of time to make his decision, he moved out slightly over the white line. However, even though he did that to help the emergency vehicle pass, he has stilled been fined and given 3 points on his licence for jumping the lights. It is questionable really whether he did jump the lights because he only moved about a yard over the line, and it was obvious that he had no intention of breaking the law.
The Driving Standards Agency said that rule 219 of the Highway Code is ‘motorists should consider oncoming emergency vehicles but still comply with traffic signs’. However, Mr Lilley has the same views as myself. If drivers don’t want to get more points on their licence, many will not move out of the way incase they get fined, this could waste time for emergency services which as a result could lose lives.
So would you receive a fine for ‘jumping the lights’ if it meant an emergency vehicle could get past? Mr Lilley would have done in the past, now he has to consider it.
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