As of 1.1.12 anyone driving on the Autobahn in Austria must form a clear path to aid emergency workers at the scene of an accident. Failure to do so can result in fines. I can´t find any clips in English, Sue, DB, you may know some? But this video shows what is expected.
papasmurf, I actually experienced it today driving on the A10, looks pretty cool, but how do you know if there is an accident, or like today, it was just really heavy traffic
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kooky, my question exactly. I would automatically assume it was for the use of BMW drivers.
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i think whenever the traffic flow slows down, ie stau.. then you have to do it irrespective of wether there maybe an accident or not.
After all it is free
After all it is free
makes sense on a duel carriageway if no hard shoulder. Seems crazy, esp as in the video above they want traffic to move into the hard shoulder to let emergency vehicles use lane 2? Why not just use the hard shoulder?
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kooky, I am serious. I am a BMW driver.
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trevski, The hard shoulder is not as continuous on Austrian and German autobahns as on UK ones. That's why they have made it law to make the passage free down the middle of the 2 lanes. The same rule applies for 3 lane motorways, cars in the left-hand lane move as far to the left as possible and the cars in the middle and right-hand lanes move to the right.
It means that there is free passage for any kind of emergency vehicle from the Fuzz to snow ploughs.
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kooky, I am informed - many thanks! I wonder if they don't go for the hard shoulder out of preference as there can be debris on that lane. Mind you I can't see it catching on in the UK! I just hope that Austrian drivers over here don't try to do it!!
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
kooky, You have always had to move over if you see blue flashing lights and hear the siren (Martinshorn). Now they have just formalised it so that all the idiots in BMWs, Audis and Mercs don't take the opportunity to push on through.
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Can they also make it compulsary for when I'm high speed filtering on my bike?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Can they also make it compulsary for when I'm high speed filtering on my bike?
+1 if all the cars went the same side I could get home so much quicker.
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Has anyone noticed the increasing panic displayed by some UK drivers when an ambulance approaches? Like stopping dead in a narrow road, thereby obstructing the ambulance when it would have been better to keep going? Or (my personal favourite) slowing down and pulling over when an ambulance goes the other way ... on a dual carriageway! Yes, really...
sanman, yesw it is bizzare. the first reaction seems to be to brake and not consider the quickest option for the emergency vehicle. It is sometimes far better to accelerate to a clear bit of road.
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I actually experienced it today driving on the A10, looks pretty cool, but how do you know if there is an accident, or like today, it was just really heavy traffic 
