Heard a siren? Clear way for emergency vehicle LAH!!

[Scion]

sometimes the cars on the lanes beside are at fault too....

 

the cars in front of the ambulances wanna change lanes but the cars on the next lanes refuse to give way...

i personally saw a si bei kuai lan lorry driver purposely speed up to close the gap when the poor car signalled left and wanted to filter out...

i dunno why they want to do this (i mean the car did signal and of a good reason)...

[Gendut]

Actions taken but not publicised will make no diff. Things will continue without any improvement. In fact it will worsen.

 

Singapore is a society where you slaughter one chicken and scare all the monkeys.

[Gendut]

 

SG drivers are proving to be a socially underdeveloped bunch.

 

 

Bad karma sir! - what goes around - WILL come around

 

I do not blame the public. I put the blame mostly on the SCDF themselves. From previous reports, I know fire engines and ambulances are equipped with cameras to record vehicles who block their way.

 

So far none have been fine and no actions taken. The public will slowly learn that it is OK to delay emergency vehicles. Blame it on the minister who takes million dollar salary but do not act on these kinds of life or death issues. May be they think "YOU DIE YOUR OWN BUSINESS!"

This is the most lame. Ok, this is the most stupid.

 

You have a right to your opinion. But I leave it to the rest to decide their opinion.

 

But isn't it stupid NOT to demand the people that gets elected to do a decent job? [sweatdrop]

[Gnoikj]

perhaps you'd care to let us know how you come up with this info? ie, that they do not charge these fellows?

 

Are you in SCDF?

[Theatreofdreams]

It doesn't matter whether if it's an ambulance or not, the root of the problem is Road Hogging.

 

This is my thread from another forum. Had wanted to post here too but I hadn't reached the 15-post clearance to post new thread.

 

http://sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=299577

[David]

The reason is getting more ridiculous.

[Mcf777]

http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Sto...ory_225626.html

 

He tails ambulances only to find...

I LIVE near Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) and often witness ambulances from the hospital speeding, always with emergency lights whirling, and sometimes, with the sirens on. Like most responsible motorists, I make way because I understand the urgency of a victim's need to receive treatment quickly. But I have found out since that speeding ambulances are not always on an emergency mission.

Twice, I followed these ambulances to their destinations. In the first instance, I followed a speeding ambulance, with its emergency signals on, to TTSH to see how seriously injured or ill the victim it was ferrying was.

 

I even paid the carpark charges to park my car at a hospital lot near the area where the ambulance drops off its patient, to ensure that I would not miss a thing.

 

To my surprise, the ambulance was not carrying any patient. I approached the driver, who was already reading the papers by then, and asked him why he had sped all the way from Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5, where I had spotted him, to the hospital when his ambulance was empty. He replied that the call to pick up a patient was cancelled along the way.

 

That may be so if he was heading out of the hospital. But the problem was, he was on his way back to the hospital.

 

On the second occasion last Friday afternoon, I spotted a van marked prominently as an ambulance and which was carrying elderly folk from Balestier Road. It made its way onto the CTE, sticking to the fast lane throughout, lights on its roof whirling, giving the impression that it was on an emergency mission.

 

Naturally, cars parted to make way. But it was clear that the van was not on an emergency mission as it was heading towards Yishun where there is no hospital. If there was no emergency, the ambulance should have stayed on the slow lane, as it is only a van. It would also have been safer for the elderly it was ferrying.

 

Ng Chong Huat

[DarkLord]

Not an unusual sight on SG roads..

[Qpik]

i observed the driving culture here, pple only look in front.... dont check blind spots or rear...so self-absorbed

 

some even more classic, ambulance (with or without siren on/flashing lights) still adamantly refused to give way despite driver in next lane horning at them..

 

my stand, ambulance coming up from rear, i will filter asap even though they might be a distance away.

[Cavver]

Watever

 

Just give way , dont question.

[Ad23]

Drive up pavement is okay I guess ... But driving into the opposite lane or oncoming traffic is a little too dangerous. What will happen if someone is speeding on the other side and fails to spot you in time?

[David]

Sure there are some blacksheep around here and there, in any org. I reserved comments on what this Mr Ng done but I do hope that this will not deter others from giving way to a screaming ambulance or invite a convoy of like-mindedness of what Mr. Ng did.

[Mcf777]

Only SCDF ambulance dont play punk.

I came across many private ambulances abusing the siren to get thru traffic.