Emergency vehicles are nuts!

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I know they (ie fire trucks, etc.) are there to tell you "Out of my way!" for good reason, with their blaring sirens and horns, but since I don't even drive yet, I find it hard to imagine being with one on the road. Are they really that distracting to someone as an aspie? What are your experiences?

Some cars in the uk, you can't even hear them, even if they're right behind you.

Don't really bother me. It is also to warn people at road sections, so you don't drive into them.

I like the 2 fire trucks that crashed into each other, in the USA that was funny going to the same place. Really were not paying attention.

When they are right behind you, it almost becomes a panic, cause you don't want to get crushed by the emergency vehicle. Literally they are going balistically fast. And I cannot always get out of their way towards the right cause that's what everyone else is doing. One time I looked like a jack ass because I was on the left most lane. [I think] and I couldn't make it to the right so I merged as close to the most left turn lane. But then I watched the ambulance take the turn on the left most non turn lane and I was like...well now I am a dick forever. A dick with some other cars they did the same.

Driving? Not so bad unless right on me. Walking? Panic & agony.
And some just came in this neighborhood just now. Synchronicity? LOL

Sincerely,
Matthew'

I almost got hit by an emergency vehicle once as a pedestrian when I was in France. I couldn't escape it properly while it was passing by at full speed because the other end of the road was a precipice and the road was too small.

They don't bother me so much when I'm driving, but I work at an urban hospital and there are sirens going every few minutes. Police and fire sirens aren't as bad as ambulances which always seem twice as loud and are so shrill they make my teeth rattle. It makes it really hard for me to go outside when I'm at work. Today I had a mini-meltdown at lunch because there were like 5 of them all at once.

They don't usually drive that fast. I've seen lot of people drive faster than emergency vehicles just to get around me.

My husband was driving around a large roundabout, when suddenly this fire engine came hurtling towards us, going round the roundabout, the wrong way. My husband slammed on the brakes, just in time. From the bend in the road and slight incline, there was no way we could have seen it before it was almost on top of us. And the last thing we expected was a vehicle to be going anti-clockwise.