Free independent study reference with original examples. Not official exam questions or personal legal advice. Follow current provincial rules and on-site directions.
Free practice: Collisions and emergency vehicles →Check the stopped vehicle and the warning lights
Section 168.1 covers an authorized emergency vehicle displaying the specified flashing red light, or a service vehicle displaying a revolving or flashing amber light visible from the front. Its service-vehicle definition includes tow trucks, utility vehicles and provincial contracted road-safety or maintenance vehicles.
The duty is to halve the posted maximum and proceed cautiously, considering traffic, road and weather conditions and people outside the stopped vehicle. A calculation alone does not determine that passing is safe.
Source: New Brunswick Motor Vehicle Act — ss. 168–168.1 ↗Move farther away only when the change is safe
With two or more lanes on the same side of the highway, a driver in the stopped vehicle’s lane or an adjacent lane must also move into another lane if that can be done safely. Slowing does not remove the lane-change requirement when a safe change is available.
The Act does not prevent a driver from stopping and not passing when stopping is safe and otherwise lawful. Distinguish this stopped-scene rule from section 168’s response to an approaching emergency vehicle: yield, pull right clear of an intersection and stop as directed by that provision.
Source: New Brunswick Motor Vehicle Act — ss. 168–168.1 ↗Calculate from the posted maximum, then assess the scene
Original worked cases
Posted 100 case: half the maximum is 50 km/h. On a road with two same-direction lanes, move out of the adjacent lane if it is safe and pass cautiously. Using 60 km/h would not apply the New Brunswick calculation.
Posted 80 case: the corresponding half-speed figure is 40 km/h. Rain and people working near the vehicle still need consideration. Reaching 40 does not create an unconditional right to pass.
Occupied-lane case: another car prevents an immediate safe move away. Do not force the lane change. Reduce speed, assess the scene and use a safe option, including stopping when permitted and safe.
Read the province before choosing a number
A question asking for half the posted maximum should be answered from its stated sign, not from a remembered fixed number. The stopped vehicle, lights, side of highway and lane position are the other decisive facts.
Use free collisions-and-emergencies practice, then safe-driving questions. The English and French current Act links let you check the wording directly. No practice score grants authority to pass an unsafe roadside scene.
Source: New Brunswick Motor Vehicle Act — ss. 168–168.1 ↗