Following an emergency vehicle: 500 feet
A free practice question for the Virginia permit test, with the answer explained.
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An ambulance with its lights flashing passes you. What's the closest you may follow it?
The rule
Keep at least 500 feet behind an emergency vehicle whose lights are flashing.
Stay 500 feet or more behind an emergency vehicle whose lights are flashing.
From the Virginia Driver's Manual, section 3, page 16. This question is our own wording of that rule. The handbook and the DMV have the final word.
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