{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-545.407","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Transportation Code § 545.407","heading":"FOLLOWING OR OBSTRUCTING FIRE APPARATUS OR AMBULANCE.","body":"(a) An operator, unless on official business, may not follow closer than 500 feet a fire apparatus responding to a fire alarm or drive into or park the vehicle in the block where the fire apparatus has stopped to answer a fire alarm.\n(b) An operator may not:\n(1) follow closer than 500 feet an ambulance that is flashing red lights unless the operator is on official business; or\n(2) drive or park the vehicle where an ambulance has been summoned for an emergency call in a manner intended to interfere with the arrival or departure of the ambulance.\nActs 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.","path":["TRANSPORTATION CODE","TITLE 7. VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC","SUBTITLE C. RULES OF THE ROAD","CHAPTER 545. OPERATION AND MOVEMENT OF VEHICLES","SUBCHAPTER I. MISCELLANEOUS RULES"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.545.htm#545.407","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:44Z","sha256":"97d49746701f9fd6c3b6f60e71ccc8673d9dd1c3356d4dd3b3a0f47ac2a8ae8b","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-545.406","next":"us-tx/tex.-transportation-code-545.408"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}