It would have been rather droll

[james_davis_nicoll]

To be t-boned by a racing ambulance and the police car behind it because they chose not to activate their sirens until the car I was in was too far out in the intersection to stop. But we had enough time to clear the intersection before they passed through it and so I do not have another car wreck to add to the list.

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[liabrown]

Once I was cycling north on Weber, and was riding through an intersection (I don't remember what the other street was, but it was a fairly busy one in Kitchener) on my green, and nearly struck by a cop car who was running his red. He didn't have the siren on, and I couldn't see his lights because my view was blocked by a huge van waiting at the intersection. He would have hit me if his brakes weren't so efficient.

So yeah, I feel your pain.

[twoeleven.livejournal.com]

so I do not have another car wreck to add to the list.
Good. Also, that confirms the existence of Nicoll Events with imaginary magnitude, as theory requires.

[dbdatvic.livejournal.com]

Though this makes one wonder what happens when one approaches a pole...

--Dave, all the zeroes are on a line whose real part is minus one over cat

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I have seen a number of near-miss incidents of a similar nature.

There is, or was, a law on the books in Maine: emergency vehicles are required to use their sirens if they are claiming right of way or using the lights. I was informed of this by an EMT on the Blue Hill Ambulance corps.

[orangemike.livejournal.com]

Need I say that I didn't even have to glance at the corner of the screen to see which of my LJ friends had posted this?