A traffic travesty

Editor:

Today I witnessed what can only be described as utter stupidity and disregard for human life. I was traveling on Route 24 North to Bel Air and had just crossed over Singer Road. It was 5:35. I noticed an ambulance approximately seven or eight cars back and immediately pulled over to the right shoulder as did the car behind me. NO ONE ELSE DID! Naturally when the ambulance caught up to the rest of the cars near Wheel Road and approached their rear bumpers all the cars scattered everywhere - the left shoulder, the right shoulder, some stayed in the left lane, some stayed in the right lane and, of course, the ambulance was held up until they could clear the jam.

All along Route 24 there are signs telling you to move to the shoulder for emergency vehicles. It is the LAW! Are your radios so loud you cannot hear the sirens? Surely, you can see the emergency lights, or do you just not care?

There is a human being in that ambulance. It could be your child, mother or father. What would you feel like if you were told their life could have been saved, if they had gotten to the hospital five minutes earlier, if not for a traffic jam caused by motorists failing to yield right of way to an emergency vehicle?

Judith P. Mulcahy

Joppatowne