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What does it mean when a car driver repeatedly sounds the horn while their passenger waves a handkerchief?

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That it is travelling on emergency duty.

It is the warning from a non-priority vehicle exceptionally performing an urgent service: facilitate its passage safely. Article 70 covers particularly serious circumstances with no other means available. Its driver must still obey traffic rules, especially at junctions; these warnings do not confer all the privileges of a priority vehicle.

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  • That it is going to overtake.

  • That it is travelling on emergency duty.

  • That the vehicle has a serious breakdown.

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