You must pull over to the edge of the road and allow an emergency vehicle to pass:
- Regardless of your direction. ✓
- Only if it is following you.
- Only if it is approaching you from the opposite direction.
- None of the above.
Answer: A. Regardless of your direction.
You must pull over to the edge of the road and let an emergency vehicle pass regardless of your direction when it is sounding a siren, bell, or flashing red light and traffic allows.
Why this is the answer
The Texas handbook says you yield the right-of-way to police cars, fire trucks, ambulances, and other emergency vehicles that are sounding a siren, bell, or flashing red light. When traffic allows, you pull to the right edge of the road and stop; if you cannot pull over, you slow down and leave a clear path. The handbook does not limit this duty to vehicles behind you or coming from the opposite direction, so the pull-over duty applies regardless of your direction.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Only if it is following you. — The handbook does not say to pull over only when the emergency vehicle is following you; it describes yielding to emergency vehicles using their warning signals, without that restriction.
- C. Only if it is approaching you from the opposite direction. — The handbook does not limit the pull-over duty to an emergency vehicle approaching from the opposite direction; it speaks generally about yielding to emergency vehicles with sirens, bells, or flashing red lights.
- D. None of the above. — This is wrong because the handbook does require you to yield and, when traffic allows, pull to the right edge and stop for an emergency vehicle using its warning signals.
Remember it
Think "lights and siren, clear the right edge" — pull right and stop when you can, no matter which way the emergency vehicle is coming from.