Texas Transportation Code

§ 545.407 — FOLLOWING OR OBSTRUCTING FIRE APPARATUS OR AMBULANCE

TN § 545.407Title 7. VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC · Part C. RULES OF THE ROAD · Ch. 545. OPERATION AND MOVEMENT OF VEHICLES · Art. I. MISCELLANEOUS RULES

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(a)An operator, unless on official business, may not follow closer than 500 feet a fire apparatus responding to a fire alarm or drive into or park the vehicle in the block where the fire apparatus has stopped to answer a fire alarm.

(b)An operator may not:

(1)follow closer than 500 feet an ambulance that is flashing red lights unless the operator is on official business; or

(2)drive or park the vehicle where an ambulance has been summoned for an emergency call in a manner intended to interfere with the arrival or departure of the ambulance.

Legislative history

Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.