<B>NOT YOUR CALL:</B> SA's motoring public do not have the right to make the call as to what is a real emergency and what is not. Drivers should always give way to emergency vehicles when their sirens are sounding. <I>Image: iStock</I>
Cape Town - South African motorists are not unfamiliar to emergency vehicles howling their sirens and flashing their lights on the country's roads.
And for the most part, drivers are very accommodating to emergency vehicles en route to an emergency or the ER.
But when it comes to the 'blue light brigade' aka government officials' vehicles (read: politicians) forcing their way through traffic, motorists tend to be less kind to the inconsiderate tactics of those voted into power and their drivers.
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