LED Lights

[grumpyff 1,159]

The color blue is visible greater distances and is more noticable than red, this is why the State Police fought for the rear facing blue light. I was I could find it,but one State Police agency (not sure if it was NYS) found that night time scenes it is safest to reduce the number of lights flashing to the rear. A lot of lights (especially red) tend to draw a drivers attention off the road and into the scene, making the driver pay more attention to the scene, than safely going around it. It was found that making the scene look like a construction site, with rear flashing amber lights and scene lighting tended to make drivers stay away from the scene. The idea of flashing amber lights = large construction vehicle.

Here is one site that discusses this idea, as well ideas for placement of apparatus/ PD at a scene : http://www.lmnc.org/pdfs/LMCITMemos/Roadwa...yResponders.pdf

Here is another site that offers training supplies (some are downloadable for free), and has a section on incidents of responders injured at scenes on roadways: http://www.respondersafety.com/

Edited November 16, 2006 by grumpyff