On the way home tonight I turned on to a road with a heavy hauler w/Police escort proceeding down it in the opposite direction, so I pulled over for them. Just after I did so, the light turned red for their direction and the show came to a halt. My direction had no light as we were proceeding away from the intersection. My direction had a merging lane and their direction had 2 turn lanes, so at this point it was a 5 lane road.
The marked vehicles all had their lights running the whole time, which to me means pull over and let them pass, so I did. Except they weren't passing, they were stopped. A couple of other motorists cruised on by and I believe the truck honked at one of them (keeping mind, they were 100% stopped in the opposite lane of travel), a few other people waited with me.
I think by the letter of the law I did what I was supposed to do, but the letter of common sense says I should have rolled on past.
So... What was the right move here? Part of me wanted to stop and wait just to show them that some of us still respect the job they're out doing. The other part of me was thinking those guys must think I'm a moron for just sitting here waiting for literally nothing to happen.
The marked vehicles all had their lights running the whole time, which to me means pull over and let them pass, so I did. Except they weren't passing, they were stopped. A couple of other motorists cruised on by and I believe the truck honked at one of them (keeping mind, they were 100% stopped in the opposite lane of travel), a few other people waited with me.
I think by the letter of the law I did what I was supposed to do, but the letter of common sense says I should have rolled on past.
So... What was the right move here? Part of me wanted to stop and wait just to show them that some of us still respect the job they're out doing. The other part of me was thinking those guys must think I'm a moron for just sitting here waiting for literally nothing to happen.