Emergency vehicles, funerals, transit and slow vehicles
A 3-minute lesson from the Florida course. Read the rules and examples, follow the handbook page references, and check your understanding before you move on.
Some vehicles always get the right-of-way or special treatment: emergency vehicles, funeral processions and transit buses pulling out. Slow farm vehicles carry a warning emblem so you can spot them early.
Know the rule
Drivers, bicyclists and pedestrians must yield to police cars, fire engines and other emergency vehicles using sirens or flashing lights. Pull over to the closest edge of the road immediately and stop until it passes.
Drivers, bicyclists and pedestrians must yield to funeral processions. Once the lead vehicle enters an intersection, the rest may follow through regardless of traffic control devices.
A funeral procession with headlights on is moving through an intersection, and your light turns green. Wait. Once the lead car entered, the procession may keep going, so don't cut between its vehicles.
Check your understanding
Read the question, decide on an answer, then open it to check the explanation. These are Roadwise study questions based on the source handbook.
Motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians must yield the right-of-way to emergency vehicles using:
Sirens only, not lights
Hazard lights on any vehicle
Sirens or flashing lights
Flashing headlights only
Answer: Sirens or flashing lights
Everyone must yield the right-of-way to law enforcement, fire engines, and other emergency vehicles using sirens or flashing lights.
