Emergency vehicles — California Permit Test

Give the right-of-way to any law enforcement vehicle, fire engine, ambulance or other emergency vehicle using a siren and red lights by driving to the right edge of the road and stopping until it has passed.

They are going somewhere that cannot wait, and the right edge is the one place they will not need.

Give the right-of-way to any law enforcement vehicle, fire engine, ambulance, or other emergency vehicle using a siren and red lights.

When approaching a stationary emergency vehicle with flashing emergency signal lights, move over and slow down.

People are working beside that vehicle with their backs to the traffic going past.

When approaching a stationary emergency vehicle with flashing emergency signal lights (hazard lights), move over and slow down.

If you are in an intersection when you see an emergency vehicle, continue through the intersection, then drive to the right as soon as it is safe and stop.

Stopping in the middle blocks the very path the emergency vehicle is trying to use.

If you are in an intersection when you see an emergency vehicle,

Obey any direction, order or signal given by a law enforcement officer or firefighter, even where it conflicts with existing signs, signals or laws.

They can see the wreck round the corner that the signs and signals know nothing about.

Obey any direction, order, or signal given by a law enforcement officer,

It is against the law to follow within 300 feet of any fire engine, law enforcement vehicle, ambulance or other emergency vehicle when its siren or flashing lights are on.

They stop without warning at the scene, and 300 feet is the room that keeps you out of the back of one.

It is against the law to follow within 300 feet of any fire engine, law enforcement vehicle, ambulance, or other emergency vehicle when their siren or flashing lights are on.

You can be arrested if you drive to the scene of a fire, collision or other disaster, because you get in the way of firefighters, ambulance crews and other rescue personnel.

The road to a disaster is the road the help is using, and a sightseer takes up the whole of it.

You can be arrested if you drive to the scene of a fire, collision, or other disaster.

What do you do for an emergency vehicle using its siren and lights?

Pull to the right edge and stop. They are going somewhere that cannot wait, and the right edge is the one place they will not need. California Driver’s Handbook, p.45: “Give the right-of-way to any law enforcement vehicle, fire engine, ambulance, or other emergency vehicle using a siren and red lights.”