VIC: 1 Ambulance smashed every week by bad motorists

[z80]

It's Victoria.

Learner drivers are told to drive in the right hand lane.

Motorists on the Geelong Rd only move left after you've applied your brakes flashed them and torn your hair out...

After they move over for you they move right back in the RH lane.

Have seen this many times with emergency vehicles, hell have even seen them chase the ambulance to get a clear line through the traffic.

All the problems are caused by people don't keep left and the police don't enforce laws with small demerit points/

[2011G6E]

Been going on for years...in the early eighties I was an auxiliary fireman and after that apart time ambulance bearer (as they were called back then instead of paramedics or whatever...).
You'd sit behind people with a massive red fire engine, lights flashing all over it, and sirens blaring, and they'd just keep cruising along oblivious to you sitting right up thier clacker.

Of course, there were a few ambulance officers and firemen that had to be sat on, because some of them thought that flashing lights meant you could blow through intersections as fast as you liked and traffic would magically stop for you. We were trained to treat each intersection as a give way...yes, ignore the red lights or stop sign...but slow down a bit and be careful, because visibility for cars coming from the side street might not allow them to see you until it's too late.

[mik]

Originally Posted by z80

It's Victoria.

Learner drivers are told to drive in the right hand lane.

Motorists on the Geelong Rd only move left after you've applied your brakes flashed them and torn your hair out...

After they move over for you they move right back in the RH lane.

Have seen this many times with emergency vehicles, hell have even seen them chase the ambulance to get a clear line through the traffic.

All the problems are caused by people don't keep left and the police don't enforce laws with small demerit points/

ahh yes but we don`t need police.......... we got camera`s.

[SB076]

Originally Posted by z80

It's Victoria.

Learner drivers are told to drive in the right hand lane.

Motorists on the Geelong Rd only move left after you've applied your brakes flashed them and torn your hair out...

After they move over for you they move right back in the RH lane.

Have seen this many times with emergency vehicles, hell have even seen them chase the ambulance to get a clear line through the traffic.

All the problems are caused by people don't keep left and the police don't enforce laws with small demerit points/

Agreed I have seen a Ambulance with lights and sirens unable to budge someone from the right hand lane (Ambulance had topass them on the left) This was a few months ago on the SE just after Stud Rd

[My poor XF]

Originally Posted by z80

It's Victoria.

Learner drivers are told to drive in the right hand lane.

Motorists on the Geelong Rd only move left after you've applied your brakes flashed them and torn your hair out...

After they move over for you they move right back in the RH lane.

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Slightly OT but I witnessed this exact thing here in Adelaide. Driving along the northern expressway (dual carriage 110 speed limit) a green P plater with Vic plates was sitting in the right hand lane driving 10 km's under the limit and holding up traffic as he was pacing another car in the left lan (also Vic plates)

The guy behind him was getting very frustrated to the point where he flashed his lights etc. eventually the p plater moved to the left let him pass then headed straight back to the right hand lane. WTF!