If we see a driver sounding the horn intermittently while keeping the hazard lights on, what is the driver indicating to us?

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The General Traffic Regulations (Article 70(1)) provide that if, due to especially serious circumstances, the driver of a non-priority vehicle is forced, with no other means available, to carry out a service normally reserved for priority vehicles (for example, the urgent transport of a seriously ill person), they must try to make other users notice their situation by using the horn intermittently and switching on the hazard lights, or by waving a handkerchief or a similar method. That is why that behavior indicates a serious emergency service. It does not indicate overtaking: the horn is used to warn of it only outside built-up areas and not together with the hazard lights (Article 110(2)). Nor does it indicate a breakdown: a breakdown is signaled with the hazard lights, but it does not justify sounding the horn intermittently.

If we see a driver sounding the horn intermittently while keeping the hazard lights on, what is the driver indicating to us?

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