The use of special signals when traveling on business, private and public transport vehicles requires traffic rules for the safety of citizens. By the color of a flashing light or the sound of a siren, the signals warn of an emergency in the territory, the need to provide emergency assistance to a person or show the driver that he has met a vehicle for technical work. These external pointers have their own language that everyone who controls the vehicle should know.
Drivers chatting on the road
Without the rules approved by the Government of the Russian Federation and the use of special signals, chaos would have formed on the roadway. For the first time, truckers used signs for special communication while driving, they are not included in the SDA, but each driver is able to decrypt light messages, they are secretly passed to each other. One of the most important warnings is a short blinking of headlights, which means: ahead of the traffic police post or traffic inspector monitors the road.
A signal conversation may mean:
- about skipping a car or overtaking;
- request to slow down;
- requirement to change the high beam to low;
- expression of anger for breaking the rules.
When you turn on the alarm, give an audible signal, indicate that a turn has been made, the traffic rules and instructors will tell you in detail when you study to obtain driving rights.
Emergency Alerts
The use of special signals that inform about their approach, a flashing blue beacon, says that emergency workers are driving the car.
A car can transport:
- government leaders;
- deputies;
- different people in high positions who have not yet been banned from using special signs to distinguish their position from the general traffic flow.
Services are designed to help people. Citizens must understand when they hear loud and see a bright warning who is in a hurry to them according to the hallmarks of the car:
- color;
- decorative stripes;
- inscriptions and emblems.
Drivers and pedestrians are accustomed to the appearance of the vehicle, they are alarmed by loud signals, since sirens turn on only when a disaster occurs.
Distinctive features on cars
On the road you can find cars that move noisily using special sound signals:
- Firefighters from the Ministry of Emergency Situations in red cars with white stripes. The emblem, code and unit number are applied to the surface of the mechanism.
- Police, traffic police on white vehicles with blue lines and words indicating which service he belongs to.
- White, yellow ambulances with an orange transverse line, the numbers 03 and a red cross.
- Gray emergency transport with inscriptions on the side panels indicating their names and contacts.
The tax police drive along the highway, members of important departments, they can document their position or drive quietly, they still will not be stopped for additional inspection by the traffic police, seeing the numbers.
What is the advantage of blue?
In the rules for the use of special signals, drivers are warned when they see a blue or red lighthouse on the roof of a car, hear a howl of a siren, must give way - people are in a hurry to fulfill their urgent duties:
- extinguish the fire;
- provide complex, urgent medical care;
- to detain a dangerous criminal.
If a car is approaching, it has a siren turned on, a fixture flickers from above - drivers must stop their vehicles when it moves in the same direction. Maneuvers should not be carried out, it is necessary to provide unhindered passage to the emergency service or an important official.
For a person driving such cars, there are:
- vehicle management responsibilities;
- execution of orders on the gestures of the traffic controller;
- the use of an emergency sign, the inclusion of headlights.
Regardless of what task the employees in the car rush to, the driver has no right to violate driving rules that threaten the lives of citizens.
What violations are allowed?
If it was necessary to use special signals, the SDA claims that when the head of state, officials close to him are traveling, they can violate the rules. To do this, include a siren, a flashing beacon, with them you can:
- ignore the traffic light;
- move with high speed around the city;
- violate road signs and markings;
- make convenient maneuvers, overtake on either side;
- pass intersections, zebras, railway crossings, tram tracks without stops.
If the driver drives a company car on his own business, he becomes an ordinary citizen who needs to comply with traffic rules.
Movement of special equipment
At coursework, future drivers are warned about the use of special signals. When they see a yellow or orange flashing light on the roof of the car, this indicates the movement of special equipment:
- road repairmen;
- tow trucks;
- carriers of large and dangerous goods.
This transport travels on roads without special advantages, but indicates to participants about the possible danger and special vigilance.
Designations for the third level
White flashing lights are equipped with the transport of collectors and mail. Lighthouses, in the event of a criminal attack, warn the police. Machines of this level are not dangerous at a meeting, but their content attracts non-law-abiding elements.
The use of special light and sound signals is carried out in emergency cases, they do not affect the traffic, but will attract the attention of organs.
A special signal can only be set legally. According to the regulations, the lighting source must be securely fixed on the roof of the car in accordance with the photometric specifications and color specifications specified in GOST. If the check finds unauthorized equipment, they will confiscate it, the driver will be punished by deprivation of rights and penalties.
The State Duma has repeatedly raised the question: which of the officials should ride with flashing beacons, which caused a stream of indignation from them, but everyone is subject to the law, and gradually the order on the roads in this area has been established.