On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:28 PM, John F. Eldredge <j...@jfeldredge.com>wrote:
> The emergency vehicles in the USA are also allowed to disobey traffic laws > in an emergency. They have to have the flashing lights and siren on, and > take precautions to watch out for regular traffic. For example, a police > car, fire truck, or ambulance on an emergency call can go through an > intersection even if the traffic signals have ordinary traffic stopped, but > they slow down enough to check for any ordinary traffic approaching the > intersection on the cross-street, since some drivers may have not figured > out which direction the siren sound is coming from. > Ambulances are only allowed 10 MPH over the posted speed limit, and then only when operating lights and sirens. I didn't know this until I got this question wrong on the Oregon driver's exam. I reused the correct answer from Oregon on my Oklahoma exam and got it right. So, at least ambulances in two states still have to kinda-sorta obey speed rules.
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