(1)
General rule. Except, as
provided in paragraph (2), whenever a vehicle is stopped or disabled upon the
roadway or the shoulder for any cause other than necessary traffic stops, the
driver shall as soon as possible, but in any event within 10 minutes, place the
warning devices of the type required under §
167.3 in the following manner:
(i) One at the traffic side of the stopped or
disabled vehicle, within 10 feet of the front or rear of the vehicle.
(ii) One at a distance of approximately 100
feet from the stopped or disabled vehicle in the center of the traffic lane or
shoulder occupied by the vehicle and in the direction toward traffic
approaching in that lane.
(iii) One
at a distance of approximately 100 feet from the stopped or disabled vehicle in
the center of the traffic lane or shoulder occupied by the vehicle and in the
direction in which traffic in that lane is moving.
(2)
Special rules. Special
rules for placement shall be as follows:
(i)
Fusees. The driver of a vehicle equipped with liquid-burning
emergency flares shall first place a fusee at the location specified in
paragraph (1)(iii).
(ii)
Daylight hours. Except as provided in subparagraph (iii)
during the period lighted lamps are not required, three emergency triangles
shall be placed as specified in paragraph (1) or two red flags as specified in
paragraph (1)(i)-(iii) and within a time of 10 minutes.
(iii)
Business or residential
districts. The placement of warning devices may not be required within
the business or residential district of a municipality, except during the time
lighted lamps are required by
75 Pa.C.S. §
4302
(relating to period for requiring lighted lamps) and when street or highway
lighting is insufficient to make a vehicle clearly discernible at a distance of
500 feet to persons on the highway.
(iv)
Hills, curves and
obstructions. If a motor vehicle is stopped or disabled within 500
feet of a curve, crest of a hill or other obstruction to view, the driver shall
place the warning signal required by §
167.3 in the direction of the
obstruction to view at a distance of 100 feet to 500 feet from the stopped or
disabled vehicle so as to afford ample warning to other users of the
highway.
(v)
Divided or
one-way roads. If a motor vehicle is stopped or disabled upon a
roadway or shoulder of a divided or one-way highway, the driver shall place the
warning devices required by § 167.3, one at a distance of 200 feet and one
at a distance of 100 feet in a direction toward approaching traffic in the
center of the lane or shoulder occupied by the vehicle, and one at the traffic
side of the vehicle within 10 feet of the vehicle.
(vi)
Leaking, flammable
material. If gasoline or other flammable liquid, or combustible liquid
or gas seeps or leaks from a fuel container or a motor vehicle stopped upon a
highway, no emergency warning signal producing a flame may be lighted or placed
except at a distance from any liquid or gas that will assure the prevention of
a fire or explosion.
