TheInsanity1234 wrote:I do hope they use lights though, I wouldn't hear any whistles at all!
I expect they will expect the unexpected . A number of years ago I had to attend an RTC involving one of our fire appliances and a private car ; the appliance had been en route to a job , blues & two's on , and went to overtake a car signalling right at a junction , city centre so no great speeds involved , convinced that the car driver MUST have seen/heard him the driver overtook , just as the car turned right across his path ! Alas , it was a bad one and the car driver was badly injured - she was profoundly deaf !
I took the time afterwards to look it up , and there have been a number of instances of deaf drivers in RTC's with emergency vehicles .
It can't be stressed enough that you can never presume you've been seen or heard , this applies just as much to civilians as emergency drivers .
I'm sure this is incorporated in the SEG training .