When an emergency vehicle approaches while you are at or near an intersection, you must keep clear of the intersection, pull over to the left side of the road, and stop.
Answer: ○ True
Explanation
When an emergency vehicle approaches at or near an intersection, you must keep clear of the intersection, pull over to the left, and stop. The three actions — keep clear, pull left, stop — go together as a set.
More questions on “Right of way”
- On a one-way road, if pulling over to the left would actually get in the emergency vehicle's way, you pull over to the right to give way.
- A road whose center line or vehicle traffic lanes continue through the middle of an intersection is a priority road.
- At an intersection without traffic control, the vehicle coming from the left always has priority, regardless of the width of the roads.
- When you arrive at the same time at an uncontrolled intersection where the roads are about the same width, you must give way to the vehicle coming from the left.
- At an uncontrolled intersection where the roads are about the same width, if a streetcar approaches from the right, your car may go first because you are on the left.
- At an intersection, a vehicle turning right may go before vehicles going straight or turning left.
Questions and explanations are written against Japan’s Road Traffic Act and the National Police Agency’s Rules of the Road. These are not official exam questions.