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Originally Posted by martyh
but would most likely still have killed her ,lights are only any good if you are looking at them .
Having said that the useless sirens that police cars are equipped with these days don't help anybody ,until they are on top of you it's virtually impossible to tell where they are coming from and realy hard to hear if you are in a car/van
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which brings to my next point, if they only turn the sirens on at junctions, how does that help on long stretches of road between junctions anyway? likewise if you at a junction at a red light or something and the siren only comes on when they reach you then the forewarning is lost and as a a result it takes longer to make space for them to past.
at night things are fairly quiet, even in a urban area, so a siren shouldnt be needed for someone to hear an approaching vehicle. unless the person has hearing problems in which case they should be looking more carefully anyway. The death happened which is a sad event but its hardly a widespread problem.