05/09/2026
This is a friendly reminder that when Police, Fire, EMS, EMA, or other responding units are using a vehicle, cones, and/or caution tape to block a roadway it does not mean:
🚫Lets just go around them
🚫Lets cut through parking lots to go around them and end up in the middle of the scene they have the road blocked for
🚫The vehicle, traffic cone, and responder directing traffic is only a suggestion.
🚫If only on direction of traffic is shut down I can wait until the other direction is clear and go around
What it does mean:
✅️I can not go around them unless directed by the responders to do so
✅️I can not cut through parking lots to bypass them especially if I end up in the scene they are working
✅️The vehicle, traffic cone, and responder directing traffic is NOT a suggestion and you can be cited for a criminal act for disregarding them.
✅️If they have a single direction of travel shut down it does not mean to wait and go around them unless directed to do so.
When you ignore the responders and the tools they use for traffic control you place yourself, the responders, and other citizens in harms way.
