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Article 40Right of Way for Emergency Motor Vehicles

第四十条(緊急自動車の優先)

When an emergency motor vehicle is approaching an intersection or its vicinity, streetcars must come to a stop and avoid entering the intersection, and vehicles (other than other emergency motor vehicles; the same applies hereinafter in this Article) must avoid the intersection and come to a stop on the left side of the road (or on the right side of the road of a one-way street, if moving towards the left side of the road would prevent the emergency motor vehicle from proceeding; the same applies hereinafter in the following paragraph).

交差点又はその附近において、緊急自動車が接近してきたときは、路面電車は交差点を避けて、車両(緊急自動車を除く。以下この条において同じ。)は交差点を避け、かつ、道路の左側(一方通行となつている道路においてその左側に寄ることが緊急自動車の通行を妨げることとなる場合にあつては、道路の右側。次項において同じ。)に寄つて一時停止しなければならない。

When an emergency motor vehicle is approaching any place other than what is prescribed in the preceding paragraph, the driver of a vehicle must move the vehicle towards the left side of the road and give way to that emergency motor vehicle.

前項以外の場所において、緊急自動車が接近してきたときは、車両は、道路の左側に寄つて、これに進路を譲らなければならない。

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