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Emergency-vehicle practice →Read the approach conditions together
Section 168(1) describes an authorized emergency vehicle with a flashing red light visible from the front and an audible siren, exhaust whistle or bell. The response is to yield and stop in the specified right-edge position.
The location matters: stay clear of an intersection. Do not turn a requirement to make space into a plan to stop where the responding vehicle needs to cross.
Source: New Brunswick Motor Vehicle Act — §§168 and 168.1 ↗Keep the police provision in the answer
Section 168(2) requires yielding to a police vehicle used as an authorized emergency vehicle in the stated manner when its audible signal is operating, whether or not it has a flashing red light visible from the front.
Do not reject a police audible signal merely because you cannot see a red lamp. Read the particular conditions in the question and any peace officer’s direction.
Source: New Brunswick Motor Vehicle Act — §§168 and 168.1 ↗Try these decisions
Original learning cases
An authorized ambulance approaches with the stated light and siren. Move right, clear of the intersection, and stop rather than merely halving speed.
A police emergency vehicle gives the audible signal but no red light is visible. The police provision still requires yielding under its conditions.
A tow truck is already stopped with the relevant amber light. Use the separate roadside-scene rule instead of assuming every emergency question is identical.
Separate approach from a stopped scene
Section 168.1 deals with specified emergency or service vehicles already stopped on the highway. That separate situation involves reduced passing speed and, where safe and applicable, moving to another lane. The half-speed roadside rule is not the complete response to an approaching emergency vehicle under section 168.
Source: New Brunswick Motor Vehicle Act — §§168 and 168.1 ↗