Hard cases make bad law
IN terms of are you allowed to break the law in an emergency, the answer is yes but...it dpeends on the circumstances...
In 1606 a fella called Coke (=Cook) discussed this in his Institutes - I am writing this off the top of my head - and it is in the bit about whether it is lawful for a fella to break outof prison if the prison is on fire. Coke decided it was.
In terms of Road Traffic Law, I think there is a section somewhere in the zillions of acts thatsays it is lawful for apolice officer to instruct a driver to....park on a double yellow line, go oup a one way street etc. I have neever lost sleep over that.
In terms of helping at road traffic accidents, a police officer has driven my car, because I was helping. They bythe way are insured to drive any car.
as for a police officer telling a two headed Martian, to drive dammit, drive to the Hospital, without checking if he is insured either here or on Mars, well i am not sure
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Oh how about this for a funny story.....
when the bombs went off in Manchester ten years ago or so, we were all told to get the hell out of the centre and I asked if I parked my car on double yellow lines, would I get ticketed ? And Officer X said no.
But I didnt believe him and reparked on a legal space
and when I came back all the other cars had been ticketed ! Har har har - like the Police didnt need well intentioned witnesses to assist them!
I didnt bother to inquire but I think the answer would have been Police Officer X didnt do it, Police Officer Y did a little later..........
PP.....Pip Pip - Tickets all round.