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In Ukraine, cars with flashing lights can occasionally be seen on the roads. However, not all drivers know that not all such cars have priority on the road, the publication writes. Expert.
White color
Sometimes used by toll collection vehicles. Serves to attract the attention of other road users.
Green
Typically, such beacons can be seen on vehicles for environmental monitoring, rapid response of environmental, sanitary or other services, as well as auxiliary services working in emergency situations.
In addition, green beacons are used in a convoy to indicate the vehicle that is closing the convoy.
Orange or yellow color
It is used on large-sized equipment, as well as by utilities.
Thus, if a car is equipped with a white, green, yellow or orange flashing light, this does not give it any advantages in traffic. Such signals have, rather, an informational function, warning other drivers of their approach.
It's another matter if the car uses flashing lights. red or blue.
So, синій The flashing beacon is used on vehicles of operational services, such as the police, security services, the Security Service of Ukraine, the State Emergency Service, ambulances and other services that perform urgent tasks. Vehicles with a blue beacon have the right of way, but only in combination with a special sound signal. Other drivers are obliged to give way to such vehicles.
What about flashing beacons? red color, then such transport has maximum priority in traffic - other road users are obliged to ensure unhindered passage. A red flashing beacon is installed, as a rule, on vehicles that perform particularly important state tasks, for example, escorting officials, military columns or other objects with a special traffic regime.
And from combined blue and red Beacons are used mainly by law enforcement vehicles, in particular by the police, to emphasize the importance and urgency of the tasks being performed.
Today in Ukraine, drivers who fail to yield the right of way to special services vehicles with blue or red flashing lights on risk receiving a fine of 680 hryvnias. At the same time, the Verkhovna Rada is considering increasing the punishment for such a violation, up to and including temporary deprivation of driving licenses for several years.
