Walk It Through: The Flashing Lights
An ambulance coming up behind, a trooper stopped on the shoulder, a tow truck, and a fine that doubles.
An ambulance with its siren on comes up fast behind a driver in Dover.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
Ordinary drivers meeting emergency and stopped vehicles. Following fire trucks, funeral processions and work zones are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Moving overChanging into a lane not next to a stopped vehicle with flashing lights on a road of 4 or more lanes, or slowing at least 20 miles per hour below a limit of 50 or more.
- Physical injuryThe harm that makes assault in the third degree, a class A misdemeanor, and with a deadly weapon or a victim 62 or older, the second degree.