05-05-2016, 05:57 PM
(05-05-2016, 04:34 PM)JoeKW Wrote: Technically, if you don't stop your vehicle you'll be in contravention of the highway traffic act. It makes no provisions for using common sense or blocking the ambulance.
At first glance, I thought the Act said something different, but it seems that you're right.
Quote:159. (1) The driver of a vehicle, upon the approach of a police department vehicle with its bell or siren sounding or with its lamp producing intermittent flashes of red light or red and blue light, or upon the approach of an ambulance, fire department vehicle or public utility emergency vehicle with its bell or siren sounding or its lamp producing intermittent flashes of red light, shall immediately bring such vehicle to a standstill,
(a) as near as is practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway and parallel therewith and clear of any intersection; or
(b) when on a roadway having more than two lanes for traffic and designated for the use of one-way traffic, as near as is practicable to the nearest curb or edge of the roadway and parallel therewith and clear of any intersection. 2009, c. 5, s. 49.
I would hope that there's precedence for a justice to disregard this section if following would clearly cause harm by blocking the emergency vehicle.