Emergency vehicles and funerals — Florida Permit Test

Motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians must yield the right-of-way to law enforcement vehicles, fire engines and other emergency vehicles using sirens or flashing lights.

Whatever they are going to is worse than whatever you are late for.

Motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians must yield the right-of-way to law enforcement vehicles, fire engines, and other emergency vehicles using sirens or flashing lights.

Pull over to the closest edge of the roadway immediately and stop until the emergency vehicle has passed, and do not block intersections.

Stopping in the intersection blocks the one route they might need to take.

Pull over to the closest edge of the roadway immediately and stop until the emergency vehicle has passed. Do not block intersections.

Motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians must yield the right-of-way to funeral processions.

Splitting a procession leaves half of it lost and the other half waiting.

Motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians must yield the right-of-way to funeral processions.

When the lead vehicle of a funeral procession enters an intersection, the rest of the procession may follow through it whatever the traffic control devices say.

The procession is treated as one long vehicle, and it does not get cut in half by a light.

When the funeral lead vehicle enters an intersection, the remaining vehicles in the funeral procession may follow through the intersection regardless of any traffic control devices.

Who must yield to an emergency vehicle using its siren?

Drivers, riders and people on foot alike. Whatever they are going to is worse than whatever you are late for. Official Florida Driver License Handbook, p.84: “Motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians must yield the right-of-way to law enforcement vehicles, fire engines, and other emergency vehicles using sirens or flashing lights.”