If a fire engine is traveling on an emergency call using only the light signal, without the siren, must you make way for it?

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Priority vehicles (police, firefighters, Civil Protection and ambulances) have the right of way when traveling on an emergency call and announce their presence with the light signal and the special sound signal device, used simultaneously. But the General Traffic Regulations (Article 68(2)) provide that they must use the light signal alone when omitting the sound signals poses no danger to other users. Therefore, the firefighter on an emergency call using only the light signal is also a priority vehicle, and you must make way for them as long as they signal that they are on an emergency call. It is incorrect to say that without a siren there is no priority, because the rule allows the light alone when omitting the siren is not dangerous. And the rule is not limited to ambulances: it applies to all priority vehicles.

If a fire engine is traveling on an emergency call using only the light signal, without the siren, must you make way for it?

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