Do you slow down for highway workers and emergency vehicles?  

I always slow down if there are highway workers or emergency vehicles. I slow down any time I see people near the roads. I always complain about people who won't slow down when they see people walking along the road, especially with kids. That is so sad about the State Trooper. It makes me so mad that people think they can drive just as fast when the weather is bad.

Yes, I'm quite polite driver. I try always to pay attention to what is happening behind me too, and left and right in case an emergency vehicle come. I live just by the hospital so there is quite a lot of ambulances passing by, and sometimes they can't get past because the cars stand so close to eachother before the roundabouts etc.

If I see highway workers I slow down, but sometimes they leave all the warnings up all weekend when noone is doing any work and then it is to forget to slow down on Monday :-/

I haven't really seen much in the way of highway work this time of year although they are starting to work on the freeway over across town. Alot of people around here drive way too fast for the road conditions. The punishment should be vehicular man slaughter! It is not the state troopers time but the vehicle drivers time to go as far as I am concerned.

Emergency vehicles, including police, should always be offered the utmost in attention and deference. If you cannot afford a few seconds to slow down and carefully pass, then you are not a very nice person. Generally speaking, police, ambulances and other emergency vehicles are there because someone needs help. Just pretend that person is your loved one. Then what? Still not worth your time to slow down and proceed carefully?

Fortunately, here where I live is, it is the law to proceed with caution around any emergency vehicles, and actually highway workers as well. It is one of very few laws that actually make sense to me.

In the case of your story, I don't know what the punishment should be. Perhaps causing the death of someone will weigh heavily on this driver for the rest of his life. Is that enough punishment? It is not for me to say without knowing all of the details.

Depending on the cermistances, seeing as the details could go in two directions. For that officer it could very well have been a simple accident. After all in a case such as this, it would be difficult to prove if the crash was a dilberate attack. It could go eaither way. When you have your back turned to traffic anything could happen.

Wet, slick, or even icey roads make driving difficult for the calmest, most careful driver. Often such weather causes people to speed up slightly because they don't understand that moving fast will cause slippage more then if a person slowed down. Often drivers feel speeding up will give them more traction and help them get from point a to b without an accident. When in reality, even if the breaks hadn't been applied, the driver could very easily lose control of the suv and have caused the collsion that ended the officer's life.

And, partly the officer could say have been at fault. getting out on a busy rain-slicked highway bent over with your back to trafic keeps you from being able to move as quickly. Had he stayed put, he may have been able to avoid such a tragic end.

However, when George is on the road he always drives with cation. Regardless of the weather, or who or who isn't going by. Its the smartest move to make. Less accidents occour that way.

Hi 4pawsx4 .

Yes I slow down. If it is more than a one lane highway in one direction then I try to get into a lane away from a stopped vehicle. I did not do that quick enough in North Carolina about a year ago when a NC State Trooper had pulled someone over. He happened to be finished with them when I passed and he came after me, pulled me over and told me it was state law for me to be in the other lane.

The penalty for killing someone like that should depend upon what happened. The guilty driver could have been sick so the penalty should be less. Jail time would be good, and you might have a good idea about 6 months. But I think the penalty should also include payment for funeral expenses and emergency services.

Sad to hear about that trooper! Too bad he had that urge to get out of his vehicle! Uncanny!

It was really sad to hear that story there,here in our country there are so many cases of reckless driving that there are so many cases of accidents everyday,I don't why they just don't care for others who are working on the road or on the road and this rreally amazes me that even after doing accidents,they don't feel like repenting,everyone should slow down for not only workers but also for animals.

What happened was so sad. Things like this really make me mad. I don't understand why some people could be so irresponsible. I am alwasy careful in everything when it invloves other people. Even people I don't know. Why? It is because I believe that I shound not do unto others what I don't want them to do to me or to my family. We should always be mindful of other people and consider what is the effect of our actions to them. What if that trooper is the head of their family? Whoever that person who killed the trooper even by accident should learn a lesson. He should pay for what he did. He should be punished so that he will learn to be more responsible.

Yes, I do! I think every normal person and driver must slow down and turn aside so that the ambulance, police or fire brigade can pass without any problems. But here in my country the most drivers don't care about it and keep driving and make no way for the emergency vehicles and I get very angry when I see such "driver", I put it into quotation marks, because I think people, who don't know and don't observe the traffic ordinance, can not be called "drivers"

I slow down as well as move into the next lane even if it means I have to go to the next exit. I honestly think that its so unsafe to stop on a highway that it makes people think OH I CAN DRIVE 90mph they never pull to over on the highway. Its amazing I can have my vehicle speed control on 62 and everyone flys past me and is out of site in 15 secounds. The spped limit where I live is 60. Punishment???? I think their hearts are pinished right now BUT I think they should loose their liscense for at least 90 days if there is no prior tickets and if their are prior tickes for speeding and carless driving then they should make it a year plus house arrest. I also think they should do 24 month of community service of cleaning up the trash of the roadways, at least 4 hours a week.