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Originally Posted by GPan099
Quote from the NYS Driver's manual, chapter 5:
"Personal vehicles driven by volunteer fire fighters responding to alarms are allowed to display blue lights, and those driven by volunteer ambulance or rescue squad members may display green lights. Amber lights on hazard vehicles such as snow plows and tow trucks warn other drivers of possible dangers. Flashing amber lights are also used on rural mail delivery vehicles and school buses to warn approaching traffic of their presence. The vehicles displaying blue, green, or amber lights are not authorized emergency vehicles. Their drivers must obey all traffic laws. While you are not required to yield the right-of-way, you should yield as a courtesy if you can do so safely."
http://www.nydmv.state.ny.us/dmanual...al.htm#col-lgh |
Absolutely riduculous. So essentially, your law says that volunteer fire fighters can put a flashing light on their car for their own pleasure and to make them feel important. How insulting. And it makes it very clear to drivers that they are not required to yield. What are your lawmakers smoking? A courtesy? I yield the right-of-way to little old people crossing the street as a courtesy, and they don't even have flashing blue lights on them (except for the occasional old lady with a big blue hairdo).