Emergency vehicles and the emergency corridor
📅 Updated 2026-09-06 · Skaityti lietuviškai 🇱🇹
Emergency vehicles — police, ambulance, fire and rescue and other special services — use blue (or blue and red) flashing lights and sirens. When they approach, every driver must give way immediately.
Basic duty
On hearing or seeing an emergency vehicle with its signals on, drivers must clear the way without endangering others: pull to the right and stop if necessary. It is prohibited to follow closely behind an emergency vehicle to "use" the gap it creates.
The emergency corridor in congestion
When traffic slows to a crawl or stops on a multi-lane road (especially motorways), drivers must form an emergency corridor before emergency vehicles even appear:
- Vehicles in the leftmost lane move as far left as possible;
- Vehicles in all other lanes move right;
- The corridor opens between the leftmost lane and the lane next to it — not on the shoulder.
The shoulder stays free for its own purpose; blocking the corridor or driving along it is a violation.
Exam relevance
Regitra questions test both the give-way duty and the corridor geometry (left lane left, everyone else right). Remember: at junctions, an emergency vehicle with signals on has priority regardless of traffic lights — but its driver must still make sure others are yielding.