§ 31-5-958 — 31-5-958. Display of warning devices when vehicle disabled

Wyoming § 31-5-958

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 31: Motor Vehicles
• Ch. 5: REGULATION OF TRAFFIC ON HIGHWAYS
• Art. 9: EQUIPMENT

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(a) Whenever any truck, bus, truck tractor, trailer,
semitrailer or pole trailer eighty (80) inches or more in
overall width or thirty (30) feet in overall length is stopped
upon a roadway or adjacent shoulder, the driver shall
immediately actuate vehicular hazard warning signal lights
meeting the requirements of W.S. 31-5-923 when warning signal
lights are required by W.S. 31-5-923. The lights need not be
displayed by a vehicle parked lawfully in an urban district, or
stopped lawfully to receive or discharge passengers, or stopped
to avoid conflict with other traffic or to comply with the
directions of a police officer or an official traffic-control
device or while the devices specified in subsections (b) through
(g) of this section are in place.
(b) Whenever any vehicle of a type referred to in
subsection (a) of this section is disabled, or stopped for more
than ten (10) minutes, upon a roadway outside of an urban
district at any time when lighted lamps are required, the driver
of the vehicle shall display the following warning devices
except as provided in subsection (c) of this section:
(i) A lighted fusee, a lighted red electric lantern
or a portable red emergency reflector shall be immediately
placed at the traffic side of the vehicle in the direction of
the nearest approaching traffic;
(ii) As soon thereafter as possible but in any event
within the burning period of the fusee (ten (10) minutes), the
driver shall place three (3) liquid-burning flares (pot
torches), three (3) lighted red electric lanterns or three (3)
portable red emergency reflectors on the roadway in the
following order:
(A) One (1) approximately one hundred (100) feet
from the disabled vehicle in the center of the lane occupied by
the vehicle and toward traffic approaching in that lane;
(B) One (1) approximately one hundred (100) feet
in the opposite direction from the disabled vehicle and in the
center of the traffic lane occupied by the vehicle;
(C) One (1) at the traffic side of the disabled
vehicle not less than ten (10) feet rearward or forward thereof
in the direction of the nearest approaching traffic. If a
lighted red electric lantern or a red portable emergency
reflector has been placed at the traffic side of the vehicle in
accordance with paragraph (b)(i) of this section, it may be used
for this purpose.
(c) Whenever any vehicle referred to in this section is
disabled, or stopped for more than ten (10) minutes, within five
hundred (500) feet of a curve, hillcrest or other obstruction to
view, the warning device in that direction shall be so placed as
to afford ample warning to other users of the highway, but in no
case less than one hundred (100) feet nor more than five hundred
(500) feet from the disabled vehicle.
(d) Whenever any vehicle of a type referred to in this
section is disabled, or stopped for more than ten (10) minutes,
upon any roadway of a divided highway during the time that
lighted lamps are required, the appropriate warning devices
prescribed in subsections (b) and (e) of this section shall be
placed as follows:
(i) One (1) at a distance of approximately two
hundred (200) feet from the vehicle in the center of the lane
occupied by the stopped vehicle and in the direction of traffic
approaching in that lane;
(ii) One (1) at a distance of approximately one
hundred (100) feet from the vehicle, in the center of the lane
occupied by the vehicle and in the direction of traffic
approaching in that lane;
(iii) One (1) at the traffic side of the vehicle and
approximately ten (10) feet from the vehicle in the direction of
the nearest approaching traffic.
(e) Whenever any motor vehicle used in the transportation
of explosives or any cargo tank truck used for the
transportation of any flammable liquid or compressed flammable
gas is disabled, or is stopped for more than ten (10) minutes,
at any time or place mentioned in subsection (b), (c) or (d) of
this section, the driver of the vehicle shall immediately
display red electric lanterns or portable red emergency
reflectors in the same number and manner specified therein.
Flares, fusees or signals produced by flame shall not be used as
warning devices for disabled vehicles of the type mentioned in
this subsection nor for vehicles using compressed gas as a fuel.
(f) The flares, fusees, red electric lanterns and portable
red emergency reflectors to be displayed as required in this
section shall conform with the requirements of W.S. 31-5-957
applicable thereto.
(g) The warning devices described in subsections (b), (c),
(d) and (e) of this section need not be displayed where there is
sufficient light to reveal persons and vehicles within a
distance of one thousand (1,000) feet.
(h) When any vehicle described in this section is stopped
entirely off the roadway and on an adjacent shoulder at any time
and place described, the warning devices shall be placed, as
nearly as practicable, on the shoulder near the edge of the
roadway.