I don’t think that not yielding to emergency vehicles is because of distracted driving (e.g., cellphones). I think it is the mentality in our society today. There is no respect, the rules if known don’t apply, and everyone expects to have the right of way.
I know it had been a very long time since I got my first license, but the cars merging on the freeway do not have the right of way and cars coming out of parking lots do not either. We have an area nearby that we refer to as the gauntlet because of cars shooting out of the two parking lots across from each other when the drivers get tired of waiting. There are wrecks there on a regular basis.
I was not talking about failure to yield to an emergency vehicle.
I was talking about people blowing though intersections turning in front of ect ect.
here is a sample from youtube