Health Care, 'Murrican Style

[abaris]

Out here the rule is if you hear a siren you pull over and stop until it goes by.  Many is the time that they are practically on top of you before you hear the siren but there is still usually time to pull over.  Still, even with that, I have never seen an ambulance or fire truck blow through an intersection at full speed.  They always slow down to make sure someone isn't pulling out of the side street.

85 miles an hour? That's about 150 kilometers. That would have been considered reckless driving where I got my license to ride with the blues on. Unless it was on a highway. That, going by your picture, certainly isn't the right spot to do that kind of speed.