You drive to the scene of a nearby collision to see what happened. What does the manual say can result from this?
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A.
You will be waved through by officers if you keep moving
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B.
You can be arrested for interfering with emergency personnel Correct
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C.
You must yield only to marked emergency vehicles
The answer is "You can be arrested for interfering with emergency personnel"
The manual says you can be arrested for driving to the scene of a fire, collision, or other disaster because you get in the way of firefighters, ambulance crews, and other rescue personnel. Choice A comes from television scenes where onlookers are simply waved along; California treats that traffic as an obstruction, not as a spectator to redirect.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. You will be waved through by officers if you keep moving
The manual treats spectator traffic as an arrestable obstruction, not as flow to redirect. This answer borrows a television image of rubberneckers being waved along; California treats them as an obstruction.
C. You must yield only to marked emergency vehicles
Yielding rules do not cover the separate ban on driving toward the incident itself. This answer confuses the yield-to-sirens rule with the separate ban on driving toward an active emergency scene.
This question tests your knowledge of Emergencies in California. Source: California Driver Manual, "Emergency Vehicles," p.45..
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