Emergency Vehicle Detection
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MR. LAWSON:
"This is backed by decades of safety research - trust the science."
Click each card to reveal critical emergency response information
🚑 Emergency Vehicle Response Guide (Click Each Vehicle)
Ambulance
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Ambulance Response
🔊 Sound: Wail-Yelp pattern
💡 Lights: Red/White flashing
⚡ Your Action: Pull right, complete stop
⏱️ React Time: 1.5 sec average
⚠️ Critical: Life-saving minutes matter!
Fire Truck
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Fire Truck Response
🔊 Sound: Air horn + siren
💡 Lights: Red rotating
⚡ Your Action: Clear intersection, then right
⏱️ Distance: Stay 500+ feet behind
⚠️ Size Alert: Large turning radius!
Police
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Police Response
🔊 Sound: Wail-Yelp-Phaser
💡 Lights: Blue/Red alternating
⚡ Your Action: Signal, slow, pull right
⏱️ React Time: 1.5 sec average
⚠️ Law: Failure to yield = citation
Aid Car
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Aid Car Response
🔊 Sound: Hi-Lo European
💡 Lights: All red strobe
⚡ Your Action: Yield at intersections
⏱️ Night Time: 2.5 sec reaction
⚠️ Note: Often first responder
🚨 The S.I.R.E.N. Response Protocol (Click Each Step)
Sound
🔊 Hear it first
Turn down radio
Identify
👁️ Find direction
Check all mirrors
React
🚦 Signal intent
Use turn signal
Execute
➡️ Pull right
Complete stop
Normalize
✓ Resume safely
Check mirrors first
⏱️ Reaction Times
- • Day: 1.5 seconds average
- • Night: 2.5 seconds (67% slower)
- • Total stop: 4-6 seconds
- • Stay 500+ feet behind
❌ Fatal Mistakes
- • Stopping in LEFT lane
- • Speeding up to "get out of way"
- • Stopping in intersection
- • Following emergency vehicle
⚖️ Washington Law (RCW 46.61.210)
Must react "immediately" • Pull to right edge • Stop completely • $1,062 fine for failure to yield