10/10/2025
Ya’all need to calm down and stop losing your heads because i explained blue light vehicles don’t have an exemption to overtake on double solids other than what the Highway Code allows.
There is a lot of small picture thinkers commenting with anger and emotion, that blue light drivers should be able to do whatever they want behind the wheel, they can’t, because that INCREASES the RISK that the blue light vehicle won’t reach its destination.
I can explain why the car pulling out was liable AND criticise the driver of the ambulance for their road craft. Both things can be true.
Two ambulance trust driver trainers have already reached out to me to use my video explaining liability in training, the vast majority of verifiable blue light drivers in the comment section are criticising the ambulance driver.
Just like me they recognise the car driver is at fault but that the blue light driver could do better, do you think your opinion holds more weight than theirs? Did that ambulance make it to its intended target?
That is the reason they don’t have unlimited scope for how they drive, and is the picture many in the comments are missing, it’s why they have training and a code of practise to follow, so that the risk of not being able to reach their destination is reduced.
Overtaking, with limited visibility on double solids increases the risk of not reaching the target and causing harm, it holds considerably more risk than waiting behind for a safe overtaking opportunity.
