Emergency vehicles — Oregon Permit Test

You must yield right of way to emergency vehicles approaching from any direction using a light or siren, immediately driving as close as you safely can to the right side of the road and stopping — but never stopping in an intersection.

Stopping in the intersection blocks the route from every direction at once, which is the one place an emergency vehicle cannot go around you.

When you see or hear an emergency vehicle warning, you must immediately drive as close as you safely can to the right side of the road and stop. Do not stop in an intersection.

After an emergency vehicle passes, you must stay at least 500 feet behind it.

Following it through the traffic it cleared puts you into an intersection where cross traffic is just starting to move again.

After the emergency vehicle passes, you must stay at least 500 feet behind the vehicle.

Stay stopped for an emergency vehicle until it has passed or until an officer tells you to move, and do not drive or stop in a way that interferes with these vehicles.

There is often a second vehicle behind the first, and pulling out after one has gone is how drivers meet it.

Stay stopped until the emergency vehicle has passed or until an officer tells you to move.

Where must a driver not stop when yielding to an emergency vehicle?

Anywhere inside an intersection. Stopping in the intersection blocks the route from every direction at once, which is the one place an emergency vehicle cannot go around you. 2026-2027 Oregon Driver Manual, p.58: “When you see or hear an emergency vehicle warning, you must immediately drive as close as you safely can to the right side of the road and stop. Do not stop in an intersection.”