Are motorists with "Boom boxes" are a menace to Emergency vehicles?

Question

The sirens are often not heard by those motorists playing the music too loud. Should these be leglislated against?

Answer 1

Many cities do have loud noise ordinances, problem is enforcing them.

Answer 2

Given the fact that drivers often ignore emergency vehicles anyway, it surely can't help. Any emergency vehicle has a number of different methods to move traffic, but all too often we do get stuck behind someone who just isn't paying attention and seeing the big box with bright flashing lights and loud siren coming up behind them. All this means is that we need to either find another way around them, or more likely, follow them until they figure out that we're back there.

Answer 3

Rocky

IT IS AGAINST THE LAW!!!!

2 Careless, and inconsiderate, driving
For section 3 of the [1988 c. 52.] Road Traffic Act 1988 “3 Careless, and inconsiderate, driving If a person drives a mechanically propelled vehicle on a road or other public place without due care and attention, or without reasonable consideration for other persons using the road or place, he is guilty of an offence.”

And
"7 Saving for law of nuisance Nothing in the Road Traffic Acts authorises a person to use on a road a vehicle so constructed or used as to cause a public or private nuisance, or in Scotland a nuisance, or affects the liability, whether under statute or common law, of the driver or owner so using such a vehicle.

Answer 4

No. Regardless of the volume of the music in the car, the good motorist will always use mirrors to see the blue flashing light and pull over.

Speed bumps are a worse menace to emergency vehicles....

Answer 5

yes, they should be against the law, in a car and house, not only for the noise created that annoys others but the users, those people who use these do not know what it is going to be like later on in life when they are deaf or partially deaf, at a young age, and so many of the people who use these are subjecting their children to them at a very young age, one person next to me used to put the sound up, till the baby was crying it must have been hurting her, in the end they found out when they turned it up that the babies ears would bleed, they should have been had up for child abuse, and those who subject others to this noise should be had up on some charge, I do know in some cases the police will take the equipment away, it should never be given back

Answer 6

ABSOLUTELY and not only are they a menace to the emergency services they are downright dangerous - how can a driver who is listening to loud music hear another vehicles audible warning? imagine if someone was trying to warn you of a danger ahead! or even a child on the road! It makes me shudder just thinking about it.

Well said Treving 4 I agree totally

Answer 7

Don't know about emergency vehicles but if one more parks outside my gaff at 03:00 in the am with it's 9000watts of pure unadulterated sh!te ruining mine and others kip time I will personally set it on fire.

And yes they should be legislated against - why not start up a Downing street petition s'eazy.

Answer 8

If people are paying proper attention to driving and usig mirrors then they shoud see the emergency vehicles approaching from the rear.

What am I saying, morons who have their tunes blasting out do not pay attention?!?

Answer 9

The people with the subwoofers are often the ones been chased by the boys in blue.

Answer 10

I do not know about that but they must be damaging their hearing. I do not think you can legislate against an idiot