Cars with 'blues and twos'
Discussion
I have occasionally seen for sale to the public cars with emergency lights and sirens, sometimes ex-MOD and things like that. Do they have to be disabled if bought by a member of the public? What would happen if said owner opted to flick them on whilst driving? Presumably this is some kind of offence, but is it actually?
I know of two people who have wired blue lights up to "scare people / for a laugh"
Luckily for them the Police were quite reasonable in simply giving them a b
king and telling them to remove them and NFA was taken.
(They'd turn them on if they were cut up etc rather than attempting a blue light run)
A mate had the contract for servicing Paramedic cars / Ambulances and on the road thought it would be fun to light them up - it seems that when the lights / sirens are turned on it's logged - as he got a phone call soon after.
Luckily for them the Police were quite reasonable in simply giving them a b
king and telling them to remove them and NFA was taken.(They'd turn them on if they were cut up etc rather than attempting a blue light run)
A mate had the contract for servicing Paramedic cars / Ambulances and on the road thought it would be fun to light them up - it seems that when the lights / sirens are turned on it's logged - as he got a phone call soon after.
Quite a few of them may be lifeguard's or fire fighter's cars who may need to rush to work. IME, you can get blues and twos on some great private vehicles - imagine an Escort Cosworth with blues and twos! But they can be crashed because the driver has no real experience of emergency driving and gets carried away with the rush of the experience. There have been a couple of cars crashed like this in the area where I work because it has a fire station at one end and a lifeboat station at the other.
I drove a doctors car (plain) with blues and two's on it. It was whilst I was a St Johnner (
) and at a car race track. A young boy had crashed his Mini and they needed to take him to hospital and the doctor went in the ambulance.
I lost sight of the ambulance, which was on lights, and as I didn't know the way to the hospital I was in a dilemma. He said to me "Don't get lost as I need to go to **** and **** so don't whatever you do **********". The noise of the cars drowned what he said so I'm assuming he meant do whatever you can to keep up!
On went the lights. What a buzz!
It was only for a few minutes as people were driving so badly I thought it better and safer to leave them off!
I went past a traffic cop in the town and he barely looked up. (I was wearing a Hi Viz St John jacket)
That was a few years ago now and I'd never do anything like it now. I think.
) and at a car race track. A young boy had crashed his Mini and they needed to take him to hospital and the doctor went in the ambulance. I lost sight of the ambulance, which was on lights, and as I didn't know the way to the hospital I was in a dilemma. He said to me "Don't get lost as I need to go to **** and **** so don't whatever you do **********". The noise of the cars drowned what he said so I'm assuming he meant do whatever you can to keep up!
On went the lights. What a buzz!
It was only for a few minutes as people were driving so badly I thought it better and safer to leave them off!
I went past a traffic cop in the town and he barely looked up. (I was wearing a Hi Viz St John jacket)
That was a few years ago now and I'd never do anything like it now. I think.
JM5 said:
A Black VX220 turbo flew past me on the A1 near Darlington around a month ago with blue flashing lights in the grill he was easily doing over 100. Would officers who were on-call not have them fitted to their own car for use in an emergency?
There are a few non-standard police cars around, plus the security services - you see them around fairly frequently in London. Best example was after the 7th July bombings, when they all lit up.My friend, who is a policeman in some terrorism related speciality, has use of the unmarked pool 2004 FFRR - he did southern M25 to Westminster in 25 mins in an emergency once but said it isn't as much fun as you think as you are so worried about the danger to the public.
sleep envy said:
Unusual for a doctor to have blue lights, I thought they were green?
I'm a GP and have used my greens (no two tone) only a handful of times on my way to an emergency over the last 3-4 years. The general public don't know what it means though. They all get out of my way until I have to stop at a red light, at which point the spell is broken and they all ignore it.
Back in the day i had a mate at Chesea Barracks, he lived in Shrophire and had fitted two tone horns to his Cavalier, this was a 12 month old light blue example, he did it purely for getting through traffic when driving home, as far as i know he never got caught, we were on a course together at Leconfield and blue lighted it through Beverly to get back before our takeaways got cold, happy days.
traffman said:
I love watching the Liver run through London , filmed in the mid eighties.
Certainly a superb testament to the skills and planning of the London Metropolitan chaps.
Truly one of my favourite internet videos. I love watching it. Superb skill from the police drivers. Those Rover V8's rumbling through the tunnel and up onto the Embankment, and driving across the pavement at Hyde Park Corner. Great stuff! Certainly a superb testament to the skills and planning of the London Metropolitan chaps.
hedges88 said:
Impersonating a police vehicle is a serious offence, usually due to the serious offences that people who wish to appear to be the law may commit
Except that you need to do a lot more than merely have flashing blue lights on your car to be classed as impersonating a police officer.Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff