2023 New York Laws › VAT - Vehicle and Traffic › Title 7 - Rules of the Road › Article 26 - Right of Way › 1144-A - Operation of Vehicles When Approaching a Parked, Stopped or Standing Authorized Emergency Vehicle, Hazard Vehicle, Vehicle Displaying a Blue or Green Light or Certain Other Motor Vehicles.

§  1144-a. Operation of vehicles when approaching a parked, stopped or
standing  authorized  emergency   vehicle,   hazard   vehicle,   vehicle
displaying  a  blue  or green light or certain other motor vehicles. (a)
Every operator of a motor vehicle  shall  exercise  due  care  to  avoid
colliding  with an authorized emergency vehicle which is parked, stopped
or standing on the shoulder or any portion  of  such  highway  and  such
authorized   emergency   vehicle  is  displaying  one  or  more  red  or
combination red and white lights pursuant to the provisions of paragraph
two of subdivision forty-one of section three  hundred  seventy-five  of
this chapter or is displaying one or more blue, combination blue and red
or  combination blue, red and white lights pursuant to the provisions of
subparagraph b of paragraph four of  subdivision  forty-one  of  section
three  hundred  seventy-five  of  this  chapter.  For operators of motor
vehicles on parkways or controlled access highways, such due care  shall
include,  but not be limited to, moving from a lane which contains or is
immediately adjacent to the shoulder  where  such  authorized  emergency
vehicle  displaying one or more red, blue or white or any combination of
red and white lights or blue or combination blue and red or  combination
blue,  red  and white lights pursuant to the provisions of paragraph two
or subparagraph b  of  paragraph  four,  as  applicable  of  subdivision
forty-one  of  section  three  hundred  seventy-five  of this chapter is
parked, stopped or standing to another lane, provided that such movement
otherwise complies with the requirements of this chapter including,  but
not  limited  to,  the provisions of sections eleven hundred ten of this
title and eleven hundred twenty-eight of this title.
(b) Every operator of a motor vehicle shall exercise due care to avoid
colliding with a hazard vehicle which is parked, stopped or standing  on
the  shoulder  or on any portion of such highway and such hazard vehicle
is displaying one or more amber lights pursuant  to  the  provisions  of
paragraph  three  of  subdivision  forty-one  of  section  three hundred
seventy-five of this chapter or, if such hazard vehicle is designed  for
the  towing  or  pushing  of  disabled  vehicles  such hazard vehicle is
displaying one or more amber lights or one or more blue  or  combination
blue  and  amber lights pursuant to the provisions of paragraph three or
subparagraph b-1  of  paragraph  four,  as  applicable,  of  subdivision
forty-one  of  section three hundred seventy-five of this chapter or, if
such hazard vehicle owned and operated by the  state  or  by  a  county,
city,  town  or village is designed for the removal of ice and snow such
hazard vehicle is displaying one or more amber lights  or  one  or  more
green  or  combination green and amber lights pursuant to the provisions
of paragraph three or subparagraph (c) of paragraph five, as applicable,
of subdivision forty-one of section three hundred seventy-five  of  this
chapter.  For  operators  of  motor  vehicles  on parkways or controlled
access highways, such due care shall include, but  not  be  limited  to,
moving  from  a  lane  which  contains or is immediately adjacent to the
shoulder where (i) such hazard vehicle  displaying  one  or  more  amber
lights  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of paragraph three of subdivision
forty-one of section three hundred seventy-five of this chapter or  (ii)
such  hazard  vehicle  designed  for  the  towing or pushing of disabled
vehicles displaying one or more amber lights or  one  or  more  blue  or
combination  blue  and  amber  lights  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of
paragraph three or subparagraph b-1 of paragraph four, as applicable, of
subdivision forty-one of section  three  hundred  seventy-five  of  this
chapter  or (iii) such hazard vehicle owned and operated by the state or
by a county, city, town or village  is  displaying  one  or  more  amber
lights  or  one  or  more  green  or  combination green and amber lights
pursuant to the provisions of paragraph three  or  subparagraph  (c)  of
paragraph five, as applicable, of subdivision forty-one of section three

hundred  seventy-five of this chapter, is parked, stopped or standing to
another lane, provided that such movement otherwise  complies  with  the
requirements  of  this  chapter  including,  but  not  limited  to,  the
provisions   of   sections   eleven   hundred  ten  and  eleven  hundred
twenty-eight of this title.
(c) Every operator of a motor vehicle shall exercise due care to avoid
colliding with a  vehicle  displaying  a  blue  light  pursuant  to  the
provisions of paragraph four or a green light pursuant to the provisions
of  paragraph  five  of  subdivision  forty-one of section three hundred
seventy-five of this chapter which is parked, stopped or standing on the
shoulder or any portion of such highway. For operators of motor vehicles
on parkways or controlled access highways, such due care shall  include,
but  not  be  limited  to,  moving  from  a  lane  which  contains or is
immediately adjacent to the shoulder where  such  vehicle  displaying  a
blue light pursuant to the provisions of paragraph four or a green light
pursuant to the provisions of paragraph five of subdivision forty-one of
section three hundred seventy-five of this chapter is parked, stopped or
standing to another lane, provided that such movement otherwise complies
with the requirements of this chapter including, but not limited to, the
provisions   of   sections   eleven   hundred  ten  and  eleven  hundred
twenty-eight of this title.
(d) Every  operator  of  a  motor  vehicle  on  a  parkway  and  on  a
controlled-access  highway  shall  exercise  due care to avoid colliding
with a motor vehicle  which  is  parked,  stopped  or  standing  on  the
shoulder  or  any  portion of such parkway or controlled-access highway.
For the purposes of this subdivision, such due care shall  include,  but
not  be  limited to, moving from a lane which contains or is immediately
adjacent to the shoulder where such motor vehicle is parked, stopped  or
standing to another lane, provided that such movement otherwise complies
with the requirements of this chapter including, but not limited to, the
provisions   of   sections   eleven   hundred  ten  and  eleven  hundred
twenty-eight of this title.