philyumpshus said:
Negative- blue to the
rear is legal, in combination with red lights. The only people who should be running blue (and only blue) to the front are volunteer firefighters. This security whacker has an illegal ride for many reasons:
-blue and clear to the front
-siren with blue lights
-red to the rear (if you run blue to the front, you can't run red anywhere)
I see this post headed to the Ring in the future...
opcorn:
Blue is most definitely not the secondary color to the rear in PA. In fact, I have linked the laws regarding this (I believe it is title 75 section 4572 or 4752) a many times. In short, may have up to two flashing or revolving lights or one light bar (lights are defined as sources of light) that emits blue light that in combination (that's one bar OR two lights) shine 360 degrees, and no other color (and it specifically says "
no other color". Department rules/urban mythology/common sense may contradict that, but I can tell you with 100% gaurantee that the
law itself says blue and only blue.
However, what is enforced is is another ocean all together. Also, I have been told (by a police officer I was having a conversation with at the pump) it could be ("could be" as a matter of enforcement not a matter of trial) considered LEO impersonation in PA to use both red and blue, even if it's only r/b to the rear or red to the rear and blue to the front as in PA using Red and Blue is restricted to Police/Sheriff/Fire Police/Medical Examiner/Coroner, and even vehicles specially authorized as emergency vehicles (usually POVs (excluding Fire Department higherups (also R/R / R/W+Siren) and VFF (B/B courtesy no siren)), which is done by the state police) can't use R/B, but can use R/A or R/W (I have not read any judgements that either support or contradict R/B impersonation, so unlike the previous paragraph where it was actual code this is hearsay).
EDIT: Oh wow I screwed up my threads. I thought this was the
PA 2011 GMC Terrain thread we were posting in, which had R/B to the rear and was also being discussed.
As for the NY R/B to the rear, that's what I thought. Again, screwed up my threads.