Yielding to emergency vehicles

MTO Driver’s Handbook: Safe and Responsible Driving, Emergency vehicles; Reacting to an approaching emergency vehicle; Reacting to a stopped emergency vehicle or tow truck; Failing to respond to an emergency vehicle

Emergency vehicles — police, fire, ambulance and special public-utility vehicles — are easy to recognize by their flashing red or blue lights, their siren or bell, or alternating flashes of white light from their headlamp high beams. Police, fire and ambulance services also use bicycles, snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles, motorcycles, buses and trucks.

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Practice questions on this card

ON-010An ambulance with its siren on and lights flashing is coming up behind you on a two-way road. What should you do?
ON-1024Which set of signals does the handbook list for identifying an emergency vehicle?
ON-1025You are waiting in an intersection to turn left when an emergency vehicle approaches with lights and siren. What should you do?
ON-1026A fire vehicle is responding to an alarm. How close may you follow it?
ON-1027What does the handbook say a flashing green light on a private vehicle means?
ON-1028A police officer signals you to stop and gives no specific direction. Where should you bring your vehicle to a stop?
ON-1029You drive a vehicle with manual transmission and are slowing for a stopped emergency vehicle. What does the handbook recommend?
ON-1030What is the penalty for failing to respond to an emergency vehicle the first time?