Kind of like this:
http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=5866629&nav=menu132_2
They admitted that the teenager had a green light ONLY after multiple witnesses came forward. They claim the “light-changing” mechanism failed; but their call was “called off” by dispatchers well over 30 seconds before they struck her vehicle as she faced a green light. The parents will get rich off of this one, and rightly so.
I love how they concluded that both vehicles were at fault considering the last paragraph of this article.
I am familiar with this case and know some of the people who were close to the girl who was killed.
There was no fault on the firefighters part here. Yes they got a call right before they hit the intersection that the emergency was canceled. But they were within sight of the mall that they were headed to. I know the intersection really well.
They did have their lights on properly; they feel terrible about it and no one should ever blame them.
I heard about that incident - the local radio reports noted at her funeral how the young lady “loved loud music”; farbeit for me to make assumptions, but the impression was she had a very loud stereo in her car and failed to hear the sirens.