01-24-2013, 08:26 PM
I think all they really want you to do is get out of the way, which you did. They may have honked at you or the other driver who didn't get out of the way but my experience is that they're a little more professional than that. They just might have been blowing the horn because they'd seen cars in the way and wanted to make sure everyone knew they were there. Or it could have just been a bad day.
There have been a few occasions I've been turning left on H130 into HPP when an ambulance is coming the other way with lights on. That puts me in the middle of the highway in the turn lane but if I drove off to the right to get onto the shoulder it'd likely cause an accident. In that case I just stop the car so the ambulance driver knows I'm not being indecisive and might turn left or right or whatever. Not the same situation, I know, but just making it as clear as you can to the emergency vehicle you aren't going to get in their way seems to work well.
Tom
http://apacificview.blogspot.com/
There have been a few occasions I've been turning left on H130 into HPP when an ambulance is coming the other way with lights on. That puts me in the middle of the highway in the turn lane but if I drove off to the right to get onto the shoulder it'd likely cause an accident. In that case I just stop the car so the ambulance driver knows I'm not being indecisive and might turn left or right or whatever. Not the same situation, I know, but just making it as clear as you can to the emergency vehicle you aren't going to get in their way seems to work well.
Tom
http://apacificview.blogspot.com/