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Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch
Iirc when on an emergency run red lights should be treated as a give way.
He probably did get lax and think nobody else would be about, but that's no excuse.  |
Yes, the emergency vehicles have right of way, but if you are entering an intersection at ~100kph, and the cop is going 120 or 130, there is simply no time to react. The police don't need to run lights at high speed unless they are heading to a gunfight in progress or something, and even then the handful of seconds lost by slowing to check don't matter.