NEGLIGENCE AND THE EMERGENCY VEHICLE OPERATOR - This month, I will investigate negligence, its relationship to driving with due regard for the safety of all other users of the highway and how due regard and negligence affects you, the emergency vehicle operator. Negligence is “the habitual failure to do the required thing; careless in manner or appearance; neglectful indifference.” The legal definition of negligence is described as; “Failure to use a reasonable amount of care, when such failure results in injury to another.”. This ...