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Letter: Siren call

Published 4 November 1995

From John Franklin

I think Keir Moilliet has missed the point about sirens (Letters, 21 October). These devices are, indeed, “carefully contrived to make source location … almost impossible”. Thus everyone, pedestrian and driver alike, slows down or stops when a siren is heard in order to establish its source, facilitating the swifter passage of the emergency vehicle.

Issue no. 2002 published 4 November 1995

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