Okla. Stat. tit. 47, § 47-11-1108
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Following fire apparatus and other emergency vehicles
Official statutory text
prohibited.
(a) The driver of any vehicle other than one on official
business shall not follow any fire apparatus traveling in response
to a fire alarm closer than five hundred (500) feet or drive into or
park such vehicle within the block where fire apparatus has stopped
in answer to a fire alarm.
(b) The driver of any vehicle other than one on official
business shall not follow any emergency vehicle or shall not
purposely drive to any location on a highway where an emergency
exists which would interfere with the free movement of authorized
emergency vehicles or any other traffic using the highway at that
location. For the purpose of this subsection the definition of
emergency shall include traffic accidents, airplane accidents,
disasters, explosions, civil disturbances and (without limitation by
the foregoing) any other related circumstances which tend to cause
traffic congestion.
The purpose of this subsection is to eliminate sightseers and
other persons who do not have official business at the scene of an
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 47. Motor Vehicles Page 567
emergency, and whose presence would tend to cause traffic
congestion.
(a) The driver of any vehicle other than one on official
business shall not follow any fire apparatus traveling in response
to a fire alarm closer than five hundred (500) feet or drive into or
park such vehicle within the block where fire apparatus has stopped
in answer to a fire alarm.
(b) The driver of any vehicle other than one on official
business shall not follow any emergency vehicle or shall not
purposely drive to any location on a highway where an emergency
exists which would interfere with the free movement of authorized
emergency vehicles or any other traffic using the highway at that
location. For the purpose of this subsection the definition of
emergency shall include traffic accidents, airplane accidents,
disasters, explosions, civil disturbances and (without limitation by
the foregoing) any other related circumstances which tend to cause
traffic congestion.
The purpose of this subsection is to eliminate sightseers and
other persons who do not have official business at the scene of an
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 47. Motor Vehicles Page 567
emergency, and whose presence would tend to cause traffic
congestion.
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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