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§47-11-1108.
§47-11-1108.
(a) The driver of any vehicle other than one on official business
shall not follow any fire apparatus traveling in response to a fire
alarm closer than five hundred (500) feet or drive into or park such
vehicle within the block where fire apparatus has stopped in answer to
a fire alarm.
(b) The driver of any vehicle other than one on official business
shall not follow any emergency vehicle or shall not purposely drive to
any location on a highway where an emergency exists which would
interfere with the free movement of authorized emergency vehicles or
any other traffic using the highway at that location. For the purpose
of this subsection the definition of emergency shall include traffic
accidents, airplane accidents, disasters, explosions, civil
disturbances and (without limitation by the foregoing) any other
related circumstances which tend to cause traffic congestion.
The purpose of this subsection is to eliminate sightseers and other
persons who do not have official business at the scene of an
emergency, and whose presence would tend to cause traffic congestion.
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