Emergency vehicle lights
A free practice question for the New York permit test, with the answer explained.
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Which flashing lights mark an emergency vehicle you must yield to?
The rule
Authorized emergency vehicles such as fire trucks, ambulances and police cars flash red lights, alone or with blue or white, and may sound a siren or air-horn (police don't always have to use a siren). Yield to them.
Fire trucks, ambulances, police cars and other authorized emergency vehicles flash red lights, alone or with blue or white, and may sound a siren or air-horn. Yield to them.
From the New York State Driver's Manual, page 35. This question is our own wording of that rule. The handbook and the DMV have the final word.
Often mixed up with
People confuse these rules with this one. Each has its own practice question.
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