Regulación de luces en vehículos de emergencia en Maryland

Explicación Simple

En Maryland, los vehículos de emergencia pueden usar luces especiales para que la gente sepa que están en servicio. Esto incluye luces verdes para unidades de mando y luces amarillas para vehículos lentos.

Es como cuando un ciclista usa luces parpadeantes para que los coches lo vean mejor en la carretera. Las luces de los vehículos de emergencia ayudan a que todos estén alerta.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que Juan es bombero y conduce un camión de bomberos. Su camión tiene luces verdes que parpadean cuando está en una emergencia. Esto le dice a los conductores que se aparten y le den paso para llegar rápido al incendio.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

onary emergency vehicle serving as a mobile command unit may be equipped with or display a flashing, blinking, or oscillating green light or signal device to designate the vehicle as the command post. (11) The yellow or amber lights or signal devices, or yellow or amber and green lights or signal devices, authorized on vehicles under paragraph (6) of this subsection may be flashed or oscillated or otherwise used only in the course of official duties, to indicate to the public that the vehicle is a slow moving vehicle or otherwise is impeding traffic. (12) (i) An emergency vehicle of any foreign state may be equipped with any lights or signals: 1. As provided by this subsection; or 2. As permitted by the state in which the vehicle is registered. (ii) 1. The use of any lights or signals permitted under this paragraph is limited to an emergency vehicle, as defined in § 11–118 of this article, responding to an emergency or pursuing a violator, and equipped with an audible signal as provided in this section. 2. Foreign vehicles, as defined in § 11–124 of this article, which are privately owned by members of volunteer fire companies, ambulance or rescue squads, fire departments, and law enforcement agencies may be equipped with lights or signals as permitted by the state in which the vehicle is registered, but such lights or signals may be used while the vehicle is in this State only by those personnel and under the circumstances authorized under paragraph (3) of this subsection.