A 3-minute lesson from the Utah course. Read the rules and examples, follow the handbook page references, and check your understanding before you move on.
Sirens and flashing lights mean someone's life may be at stake. Clear the way at once, give roadside crews room, and know exactly what to do when an officer pulls you over, so the stop stays safe for everyone.
Know the rule
When a police car, fire engine, ambulance, or other emergency vehicle approaches using a siren, emergency lights, or another warning device, yield: drive at once to the right side of the road and stop until it has passed.
Move over law: approaching a stationary vehicle with flashing hazard lights that isn't in a legal parking area, slow down, give it as much room as practical, and if safe change to a lane not next to it.
A move-over conviction requires a four-hour live classroom defensive driving course within 90 days. If you don't attend, your license is suspended for 90 days.
If an emergency or police vehicle with flashing lights follows you in the express lane, you may make a right-hand lane change out of the express lane when it is safe.
On the freeway you see a highway patrol car stopped on the right shoulder with its lights flashing. You slow down, and when traffic allows, you move one lane to the left so you're not in the lane next to it.
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.
You must not follow within how many feet of a fire vehicle responding to an alarm?
500 feet
200 feet
1,000 feet
100 feet
Answer: 500 feet
Do not follow within 500 feet of any fire vehicle responding to an alarm, unless on official business.