Slow down for emergency vehicles... How do you classify mobile speed camera vehicles?

salmon90 on 17/09/2018 - 17:37

I was on the phone with a friend today who was sitting at a traffic light, and he mentioned he saw a mobile speed camera setup on the side of the road where it normally is 2 times per week, but for the the first time in the last year, they had their emergency lights flashing.

This got us to thinking. Is this an attempt to catch people out who do not slow down to 40KM/H when passing a emergency vehicle with lights flashing?

Are mobile speed camera vehicles emergency vehicles? And do you need to slow down to 40KM/H?

According to the new laws, the following vehicles are included:
NSW Police Force vehicles
Ambulance Service of NSW vehicles
Fire & Rescue NSW vehicles
State Emergency Service vehicles
Rural Fire Service vehicles
Volunteer Rescue Association vehicles
Traffic Emergency Response vehicles

Automotive

Comments

  • [Deactivated] on 17/09/2018 - 17:42

    Vehicle must be fitted with red, blue or purple flashing lights in Victoria.

  • bdl on 17/09/2018 - 17:45
    +8

    Classification = Pricks :)

  • John Kimble on 17/09/2018 - 19:00

    No, no and no.

  • QW3RTY on 17/09/2018 - 19:14
    -1

    That's filthy. If they're just set up doing mobile speed detection with lights on, they're definitely angling to catch people under the new rule.

  • Stewardo on 17/09/2018 - 19:34
    +1

    They have to have lights flashing, and need to be emergency vehicles. Don’t think they are emergency vehicles as they are a private company in NSW

  • whooah1979 on 17/09/2018 - 19:50

    According to the new laws, the following vehicles are included:
    NSW Police Force vehicles
    Ambulance Service of NSW vehicles
    Fire & Rescue NSW vehicles
    State Emergency Service vehicles
    Rural Fire Service vehicles
    Volunteer Rescue Association vehicles
    Traffic Emergency Response vehicles

    Where does it say mobile speed camera?

    • Nugs on 17/09/2018 - 20:12
      -1

      definitely a traffic emergency response vehicle……..

      .

      • Euphemistic on 17/09/2018 - 20:59

        Neither is a police car that has pulled over someone for RBT, but it still counts.

        What does the actual legislation say? not some journalists interpretation or a press release from the RMS.

  • Rhubarb Jones on 18/09/2018 - 13:06

    When you say emergency lights you mean it's hazard lights? All four orange indicators are flashing?

    If so, nah. I've seen this a few times myself in Vic, it's an attempt to make a mobile speed camera look more like a roadside breakdown.

    • Euphemistic on 18/09/2018 - 13:25

      Red and blue flashing lights.

  • Euphemistic on 18/09/2018 - 13:24

    The rule, 78-1, is

    a driver must not drive past, at a speed exceeding 40km/h, a stationary emergency response vehicle on a road that is displaying a flashing blue or red light

    emergency response vehicle means a vehicle being used by any of the following:
    NSW police force
    Amubukance service of nsw
    Fire and rescue nsw (including a fire brigade within the meaning the fire brigades act 1989)
    Nsw rural fire service
    Nsw state emergency service
    The authority
    The transport management centre
    Nsw volunteer rescue association

    It also mentions: giving way to any person on foot in the immediate vicinity of the vehicle and not increasing speed until the driver is at a sufficient distance front eh vehicle so as to avoid causing a danger to any person in the immediate vicinity of the vehicle.

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