Okla. Stat. tit. 47, § 47-12-408

A. Whenever any truck, except a lightweight vehicle, or any

bus, truck-tractor, trailer, semitrailer, or pole trailer, or any

motor vehicle towing a manufactured home is disabled upon the

traveled portion of any highway or the shoulder thereof outside of

any municipality at any time when lighted lamps are required on

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vehicles, the driver of such vehicle shall display the following

warning devices upon the highway during the time the vehicle is so

disabled on the highway except as provided in subsection B of this

section:

1. A lighted fusee, a lighted red electric lantern or a

portable red emergency reflector shall be immediately placed at the

traffic side of the vehicle in the direction of the nearest

approaching traffic.

2. As soon thereafter as possible but in any event within the

burning period of the fusee, the driver shall place three liquid-

burning flares, or three lighted red electric lanterns or three

portable red emergency reflectors on the traveled portion of the

highway in the following order:

a. one approximately one hundred (100) feet from the

disabled vehicle in the center of the lane occupied by

such vehicle and toward traffic approaching in that

lane,

b. one approximately one hundred (100) feet in the

opposite direction from the disabled vehicle and in

the center of the traffic lane occupied by such

vehicle, and

c. one at the traffic side of the disabled vehicle not

less than ten (10) feet rearward or forward thereof in

the direction of the nearest approaching traffic. If

a lighted red electric lantern or a red portable

emergency reflector has been placed at the traffic

side of the vehicle in accordance with paragraph 1 of

subsection A of this section, it may be used for this

purpose.

B. Whenever any vehicle referred to in this section is disabled

within five hundred (500) feet of a curve, hillcrest or other

obstruction to view, the warning signal in that direction shall be

so placed as to afford ample warning to other users of the highway,

but in no case less than one hundred (100) feet nor more than five

hundred (500) feet from the disabled vehicle.

C. Whenever any vehicle of a type referred to in this section

is disabled upon any roadway of a divided highway during the times

specified in subsection B of Section 12-201 of this title, the

appropriate warning devices prescribed in subsections A and E of

this section shall be placed as follows:

1. One at a distance of approximately two hundred (200) feet

from the vehicle in the center of the lane occupied by the stopped

vehicle and in the direction of traffic approaching in that lane;

2. One at a distance of approximately one hundred (100) feet

from the vehicle, in the center of the lane occupied by the vehicle

and in the direction of traffic approaching in that lane; and

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3. One at the traffic side of the vehicle and approximately ten

(10) feet from the vehicle in the direction of the nearest

approaching traffic.

D. Whenever any vehicle of a type referred to in this section

is disabled upon the traveled portion of a highway or the shoulder

thereof outside of any municipality at any time when the display of

fusees, flares, red electric lanterns or portable red emergency

reflectors is not required, the driver of the vehicle shall display

two red flags upon the roadway in the lane of traffic occupied by

the disabled vehicle, one at a distance of approximately one hundred
abled upon the traveled portion of a highway or the shoulder

thereof outside of any municipality at any time when the display of

fusees, flares, red electric lanterns or portable red emergency

reflectors is not required, the driver of the vehicle shall display

two red flags upon the roadway in the lane of traffic occupied by

the disabled vehicle, one at a distance of approximately one hundred

(100) feet in advance of the vehicle, and one at a distance of

approximately one hundred (100) feet to the rear of the vehicle.

E. Whenever any motor vehicle used in the transportation of

explosives or any cargo tank truck used for the transportation of

any flammable liquid or compressed flammable gas is disabled upon a

highway of this state at any time or place mentioned in subsection A

of this section, the driver of such vehicle shall immediately

display the following warning devices: One red electric lantern or

portable red emergency reflector placed on the roadway at the

traffic side of the vehicle, and two red electric lanterns or

portable red reflectors, one placed approximately one hundred (100)

feet to the front and one placed approximately one hundred (100)

feet to the rear of this disabled vehicle in the center of the

traffic lane occupied by such vehicle. Flares, fusees or signals

produced by flame shall not be used as warning devices for disabled

vehicles of the type mentioned in this paragraph.

F. The flares, fusees, red electric lanterns, portable red

emergency reflectors and flags to be displayed as required in this

section shall conform with the applicable requirements of Section

12-407 of this title.

G. The provisions of this section shall not apply to vehicles

bearing farm tags and used exclusively for the purpose of farming

and ranching.