My first driving lesson

See, up here near Glasgow I have yet to see anyone pull over for any emergency service vehicles. I actually asked my husband if it wasn't required, and he said nah, they'll find a way through. Mind-boggling.

I'm going to make a note to ask my instructor about this. I don't have my next lesson until the end of June.

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I'm going to make a note to ask my instructor about this. I don't have my next lesson until the end of June.

Yeah, I don't think I entirely trust my husband's driving! We both agreed that when I start trying to learn to drive, it won't be from him. Don't want to pick up his bad habits 

Yeah, I don't think I entirely trust my husband's driving! We both agreed that when I start trying to learn to drive, it won't be from him. Don't want to pick up his bad habits 

My husband hasn't driven for 7 years. He's only here to help me navigate.  Lol

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Rule 219 of the Highway Code says:
"Emergency and Incident Support vehicles. You should look and listen for ambulances, fire engines, police, doctors or other emergency vehicles using flashing blue, red or green lights and sirens or flashing headlights, or Highways Agency Traffic Officer and Incident Support vehicles using flashing amber lights. When one approaches do not panic. Consider the route of such a vehicle and take appropriate action to let it pass, while complying with all traffic signs. If necessary, pull to the side of the road and stop, but try to avoid stopping before the brow of a hill, a bend or narrow section of road. Do not endanger yourself, other road users or pedestrians and avoid mounting the kerb. Do not brake harshly on approach to a junction or roundabout, as a following vehicle may not have the same view as you."

There have been instances of people prosecuted for going through a red light to get out of the way, for example

I can't get my head around the way they treat emergency services with sirens- more or less ignore them!   During my lessons, I was going to turn onto another road until I saw an Ambulance coming with lights and siren.  Of course, I held back even though a traffic light was green.  My instructor made me turn on to the road, right in front of the ambulance weaving through traffic.  His explanation was "He's a professional driver, he'll drive around you."

I frequently see people happily driving along next to an ambulance with the siren going.

I think it might be a big city thing. In other big cities, I've noticed that people don't really give way to ambulances.

I haven't noticed people not stopping for emergency vehicles in the places I've lived... however, the other week I did see someone behind me stop right in the path of an ambulance so it couldn't get through!

It was a two-lane road and everyone else had pulled over to the left, allowing the  ambulance to use the right lane, but one idiot had pulled over in the right lane, blocking the road, and wouldn't move, even when the ambulance was on his tail!


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just the odd idiot who doesn't. It always amazes me how lines of packed traffic, suddenly split to make space for the emergency services.

Yep, this is my experience too.

It does piss me off when, after the ambulance goes through and people pull back out to begin driving again, there's always some twerp at the back of the queue who just drives along merrily and doesn't let the folk who pulled over to the side ahead of him, pull back out into traffic again.

See, up here near Glasgow I have yet to see anyone pull over for any emergency service vehicles. I actually asked my husband if it wasn't required, and he said nah, they'll find a way through. Mind-boggling.

This is what the Highway Code says-

Rule 219

Emergency and Incident Support vehicles. You should look and listen for ambulances, fire engines, police, doctors or other emergency vehicles using flashing blue, red or green lights and sirens or flashing headlights, or traffic officer and incident support vehicles using flashing amber lights. When one approaches do not panic. Consider the route of such a vehicle and take appropriate action to let it pass, while complying with all traffic signs. If necessary, pull to the side of the road and stop, but try to avoid stopping before the brow of a hill, a bend or narrow section of road. Do not endanger yourself, other road users or pedestrians and avoid mounting the kerb. Do not brake harshly on approach to a junction or roundabout, as a following vehicle may not have the same view as you.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/road-users-requiring-extra-care-204-to-225