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If there's a large, relatively slow-moving emergency vehicle such as a fire truck or an ambulance behind you a long ways (quarter mile or so) and it's not driving faster than you are, do you have to stop immediately? Or can you keep driving to your destination and then pull off the road entirely, since you're where you need to be?
Do you have to stop at the first sign of flashing lights or can you keep on going if it doesn't impede the emergency vehicle?
If there's a large, relatively slow-moving emergency vehicle such as a fire truck or an ambulance behind you a long ways (quarter mile or so) and it's not driving faster than you are, do you have to stop immediately? Or can you keep driving to your destination and then pull off the road entirely, since you're where you need to be?
Do you have to stop at the first sign of flashing lights or can you keep on going if it doesn't impede the emergency vehicle?
I would just use common sense and start to move over once it is a couple hundred feet from you. I did what you are referring to once before where the the emergency vehicle was about 1/4 mile back on an interstate, I pulled over and felt ridiculous sitting there for 20-30 seconds until it FINALLY passed me.
In CT, the manual says that "When you see or hear an emergency vehicle approaching", pull over and stop. What you may not know is that the driver of the EV may be "going slow" because he is waiting for you to pull over. As a retired volunteer amb driver, I can tell you the worst thing is drivers who are not reacting as expected. You don't know what they'll do next. If you don't pull to the right, I can't risk going around you as I have to assume you have not seen or heard me. And don't even speed up, that will get you reported quicker than anything else.
In CT, the manual says that "When you see or hear an emergency vehicle approaching", pull over and stop. What you may not know is that the driver of the EV may be "going slow" because he is waiting for you to pull over. As a retired volunteer amb driver, I can tell you the worst thing is drivers who are not reacting as expected. You don't know what they'll do next. If you don't pull to the right, I can't risk going around you as I have to assume you have not seen or heard me. And don't even speed up, that will get you reported quicker than anything else.
Driver's manual doesn't have anything to do with the law. It's an interesting question. I usually wait until they're somewhat close but not to anywhere near the time where I would be impeding them to pull over. I've sped up one time for an ambulance on a two-lane mountain road with nothing but blind corners since there was nowhere to pull off.
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