Pulling over for Emergency Vehicles

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Originally posted by rainyjim

I believe Pog was insinuating people who drive wearing headphones can't hear the sirens, but perhaps he/she is unaware that it is illegal to drive wearing headphones! Maybe not and that's what he/she was pointing out. Either way drive safe and don't drive wearing headphones!

Cheers

rainyjim

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I don't wear headphones when I'm driving. That's idiotic, but no more so than other stupid stuff people do while driving I guess.
Anyway, I looked it up possible reasons for lights, but sirens. I came across a variety of reasons. Anything from, it is not a life-threatening emergency, so they have lights but no siren, to the patient is critical and they don't want to aggravate the patient anymore (like with a heart condition) by blasting a loud siren. Also, at night they are less likely to put the sirens on because of noise pollution and also because it is easier to see flashing lights at nighttime than in the day. Although all 3 times I saw lights and no siren was in the daytime.