Emergency vehicle

Emergency vehicles are specially equipped vehicles on land, at sea and in the air.

They belong to a charity or a special authority. You be given if this is necessary to fulfill an order and required special and rights of way. As a rule, they wear a uniform and well- recognizable color coding, preferably in warning colors.

Identification

As a basic feature of emergency vehicles in the German language area must be equipped with a blue rotating beacon and a siren one to be recognizable as such.

In other countries, they are also available with different color, for example, equipped with red or yellow and blue rotating lights and a siren, for example in Asia and North America.

The vehicle itself is equipped and furnished according to the use by the respective emergency response organization. This can be a normal car or truck. However, it can be quite specially equipped for the emergency services, fire services, civil defense or the police. These vehicles can also be seen on the outside of color or markings. Especially in light vehicles, additional strips with a red or orange fluorescent paint for better visibility are often attached.

Civil strips also take emergency vehicles, but which are identified as such only in the effort, too.

Austria

It can get permission to be declared emergency vehicle in an emergency and civilian vehicles. This is especially true at doctors in rural areas where other rescue organizations have a long driveway, but for example also in private practice midwives and veterinarians. While the drivers of these vehicles enjoy the civil legal advantages in question use the drive, but not, for example, motor vehicle tax exemption.

Also in the approval certificate is here not the usual designation as trucks or automobiles. Previously, the entries were mostly special-purpose vehicle, today is fire truck or rescue vehicle etc. When doctors, midwives, etc. of the registration certificate is, however, not changed. You get a notice from the Governor, they carry for rescue operations and are required to present the officers of the road supervision when prompted.

The attached blue light must comply according to § 15a of the Motor Vehicles Act 1967 Section 3 - Implementing the ECE Regulation 65.

Rights

According to the legal provisions emergency vehicles have certain special rights which may vary depending on the country in use. Everywhere, however, another road users must ensure that emergency vehicles in use, the preferred road happen. However, if an emergency vehicle neither blue light still turned on a siren, so it does not have right of way, but can nevertheless take special rights to claim, if the conditions are according to the law fulfilled for them (eg to approach a crime scene if there even suspected offenders should not be warned ).

In Austria, the order of precedence with simultaneous arrival of emergency vehicles at an intersection in § 26 of the Highway Code is governed: Rescue Vehicle - Fire - Security Services - other emergency vehicles. A similar rule does not apply in Germany; In case of doubt, the driver must agree ( by show of hands ).

Using the signals

Germany

In Germany is governed by the Road Traffic Act by excluding provisions, when signals may be used:

Blue flashing light together with the emergency siren may be used only when the highest urgency to

  • To save lives,
  • Avert serious injury,
  • Avert a threat to public safety or order,
  • Pursue fugitives,
  • To obtain valuable material assets.

Blue flashing light alone may be used only when the vehicle is allowed to do this and

  • To warn of an accident or other operating units or
  • If used rides,
  • Is necessary in the monitoring of vehicles or of closed associations.

Austria

Emergency vehicles are allowed to use their signals only in certain situations that can legally differ in detail. In Austria, the following applies:

  • Emergency
  • Security
  • Pursuit or pursuit driving
  • State visits
  • As a closed association in the road
  • As a transport escort

Since not every trip to a replacement vehicle is a used drive, the vehicles should be but still better protected in some situations, some of these vehicles also have an additional yellow (orange) rotating beacon.

Species

( not exhaustive )

  • Police vehicles
  • Fire engines
  • Rescue vehicles
  • Accident auxiliary vehicles
  • Mountain Rescue Vehicles

Air identifiers (numbers and or letters on the roof) provide for recognition from the air and serve the targeted call via radio by helicopter.

Gallery

Fire fighting vehicle (HLF 16/12 )

Ambulance (rear) and ambulance emergency vehicle (front, life saving equipment )

Vehicle of the THW ( equipment vehicle )

Vehicle of civil protection ( care trucks )

Patrol car of the German Federal Police with old license plate in blue and silver color scheme

Police cars of the Hessian police in green- silver and blue- silver color scheme

Vehicle of the Military Police Force in new colors

Police helicopter

Lifeboat Theo Fischer

Accident auxiliary carriage for trams of the Munich Public Transportation

Home emergency vehicle

Mountain Rescue Mountain Rescue vehicles of the Black Forest

Motor lifeboat

Kommandowagen

First Responder

Entstörfahrzeug a regional energy supply company

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