On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:33:19 -0000, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message op.uoxw6zr2haghkf@lucy, at 17:22:01 on Fri, 6 Feb 2009,
Duncan Wood remarked:
The emergency vehicle will be following you through, actually.

Well normally you'd pull over to let it past, isn't that the point of
pulling forward?

You pull forward through the lights, then to one side. The emergency
vehicle then follows you through.

What happens next is the interesting bit. Do you stop in the middle of
the x-roads, perhaps sat on a yellow box, with traffic attacking you
from both sides, or make a gracious exit?

The latter will usually be safer, but does the law recognise that - from
your other remarks you clearly think the law would prefer you to do the
safer thing, even if it's ostensibly prohibited.


Well the only example given is of somebody who was doing 16mph when
photographed

"gm, bury says...
11:54am Thu 27 Sep 07
if any of you were at this junction when it happened as i was you would of
seen that he moved to the inside lane just passed the lights from the
middle lane, the emergency vehicle passed with no problem, he was not in
the middle of the junction or obstructing anything, and there was no need
for him to then follow the vehicle thru the lights, he was already out of
the way if any other vehicle came, had he still been blocking the way then
the 1st vehicle would not of got thru, there was a few second gap before
he followed, it was dangerous and unwarranted"