Speed limit signs

[Denny]

On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 22:17 +0000, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 05:28:20PM +0100, Philip Newton wrote:
> > Does this mean "won't start up from a standstill if the light is red"
> > or the stronger "will come to a halt if the light is red"? How hard
> 
> also remember, getting out of the way for emergency services vehicles, which
> happens a surprising amount of the time. hell just the other day i deliberately 
> stopped in the diamond grid thingy to see what an ambulance wanted to do[1].

Apparently breaking a red light to get out of the way of a fire engine
or ambulance is actually against the law - only a police car has the
authority to tell you to go through a red light.  Someone got a fine for
it a few years ago after being caught across the line on a red-light
camera with an ambulance going through beside them, it was in some of
the papers with suitably indignant headlines.