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Obnoxious traffic
Jan. 17th, 2012 12:41 pmOn the way in to work today I was merging in turn, as a slip road from the motorway joined an A road (a horribly complicated junction where four lanes of traffic need to re-organise into four new lanes in the space of 100 yards), when I noticed a large white van was being very aggressive and trying to push past me. I was about to get all outraged when I realised that it had blue flashing lights on (barely visible, it was so close), and was in fact an ambulance that had snuck up past the lorry behind me all silently.
You know, I was under the impression that these things were fitted with some sort of loud noise-making device specifically to alert drivers in this exact situation. Had I known there was an emergency vehicle nearby, I'd have hung back on the slip road and he'd have been an awful lot quicker getting past me, not to mention everyone else.
Why oh why oh why was the driver not using his siren? I know he had one, it went off for about half a second as it clambered on down the road. Madness! The world is going to pot!!
You know, I was under the impression that these things were fitted with some sort of loud noise-making device specifically to alert drivers in this exact situation. Had I known there was an emergency vehicle nearby, I'd have hung back on the slip road and he'd have been an awful lot quicker getting past me, not to mention everyone else.
Why oh why oh why was the driver not using his siren? I know he had one, it went off for about half a second as it clambered on down the road. Madness! The world is going to pot!!
