Most of us know that if an emergency vehicle is behind you with sirens blaring or lights flashing you should safety pull over to the side of the road and let them pass. But what about if the emergency vehicle is coming towards you in the opposite direction, should you stop, or should you carry on going?

Some States require you to pull over and stop even if the emergency vehicle is coming towards you in the opposite lane and this is because the goal of the emergency services is to bypass traffic as quickly as possible. Navigating an emergency vehicle through heavy traffic is dangerous, but if all the vehicles are stopped that danger is greatly reduced. If some vehicles keep moving even if this is slowly, it reduces the emergency driver’s choices for which route to take as they have to drive more cautiously and slowly. In a life or death situation those few seconds can make all the difference. So where you can’t pull over to the side of the road, like when you are on a multi-lane highway or at a busy intersection, just stop and let the emergency vehicle decide on the safest route.

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