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Do you have a source for this?

The relevant UK Highway Code section begins (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/general-rules-t... ) with the following:

> The rules in The Highway Code do not give you the right of way in any circumstance, but they advise you when you should give way to others. Always give way if it can help to avoid an incident.

Of course we should give way to emergency vehicles, and take care of ourselves. I was simply challenging the op about emergency vehicles having right of way. I don't believe that's the case in my country (UK) and I was politely asking if it was true in theirs.

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A source for having the right of way meaning that you shouldn't exercise caution?

I don't care what the right of way rules in the UK are, I'm taking exception to your argument that exercising caution implies lacking a right of way, suggesting that having the right of way means you don't have to exercise caution. The right of way is only relevant if you survive to hash things out in court, it won't bring you back from the dead. Even if you have the right of way, you'd be suicidally stupid to not still exercise caution, particularly when doing something usual and obviously dangerous.

The original comment suggested that in their country (assuming US?), emergency vehicles have "the right of way".

I asked if this was true, and gave my understanding of my own country's laws, where emergency vehicles do not have a right of way.

I'm not arguing that exercising caution implies a lack of a right of way. I'm stating that in the UK although you should give way to emergency vehicles, they do not have a right of way and so exercise caution.

I understand other countries might be different, we're all surprising and different. That's why I asked my original question.

Just realised you missunderstood what I was asking for a source for.

I was asking for a source to your statement that "They have the right of way". I'm interested, because if so it would be a difference between countries that surprises me.

Everything else is perfectly reasonable to me.

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