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Do you have to yield the right of way to a tank the same way you do to an ambulance police car or fire truck?
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∙ 15y ago
A tank is not an emergency vehicle and is probably not covered in the vehicle code. However it would be inadvisable to contest the right-of-way with a combat vehicle weighing more than your house.
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Does the postal service have the right of way above ambulance fire and police when they have their lights and sirens on?
No. ALL vehicles are supposed to yield the right of way to emergency vehicles.
What is the word for when you have to pull over for an ambulance?
To YIELD or to give the right-of-way.
How does one yield right of way to an Ambulance on an expressway?
As an EMT, I work on the ambulance a lot and I've seen many ways people try to get out of the way of an ambulance. On ANY road, when an emergency vehicle is coming, SLOW DOWN, or STOP and pull to the RIGHT. That is the correct way to yield right of way to an ambulance. This will help ambulance crews AA whole lot.
Do you have to pull over for AN ambulance?
In the US - in most (all?) states that I am aware of - the law requires that, on an un-divided highway, you "Yield the Right-Of-Way" to emergency vehicles. Ambulance and Fire Truck drivers can take down your license plate numbers and you can get a ticket or fine for not yielding to them.
Is it unlawful not to yield the right of way to an ambulance?
Yes. You are required to yield to any emergency vehicle with active emergency indicators (flashing lights, sirens, etc).
What is fail to yield to emergency vehicle?
If you're ever stopped by Officer Dillon of the San Jose Police Department, failing to yield to an emergency vehicle is a punishment he metes out for "not showing the proper amount of deference" when answering his questions. For the rest of the rational law enforcement community, it consists of failing to pull to the side of the road when a police car, fire truck, ambulance or other emergency vehicle flashes its lights and turns on its siren.
Two lanes you pull out into 1st lane and ambulance pulls into your lane and you collide?
If the ambulance was using red lights and/or siren, you are obligated to yield the right-of-way. You are likely responsible for this collision.
What should you do if you are being overtaken by an emergency vehicle (fire truck police car ambulance) flashing its emergency lights?
Overtaken? Hence the vehicle is approaching rapidly from behind. You are to slow down and move to the right side of the road in the U.S. as long as it is safe to do so. If there is a shoulder, you are required to pull on to the shoulder and stop your vehicle as long as it is safe to do so) until the emergency vehicle passes you. Basically, you are to yield the right of way to emergency vehicles.
When you are driving and hear an ambulance siren?
yield to the emergency vehicle
What does this brain teaser mean way yield?
Yield to right of way
Should a funeral procession pull over to yield ambulance?
of course... the dead guy i n the hearse is in no big hurry.
If a truck that has a green Yield For Left Turn suddenly turns in front of you and you hit the truck who is at fault?
it is the truck that terned in frount of you criminal justice student
