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Indiana Code Title 9. Motor Vehicles § 9-21-15-2

Current as of January 02, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

Sec. 2. Except as provided in section 6 of this chapter, whenever a vehicle is disabled upon the traveled portion of a highway or the shoulder of a highway outside of a municipality at a time when lighted lamps are required on vehicles, the person who drives the vehicle shall display the following warning devices upon the highway during the time the vehicle is disabled on the highway:

(1) A lighted fusee, a lighted red electric lantern, or a portable red emergency reflector must be immediately placed at the traffic side of the vehicle in the direction of the nearest approaching traffic.

(2) As soon as possible within the burning period of a fusee (fifteen (15) minutes), the person shall place three (3) liquid-burning flares (pot torches), three (3) lighted red electric lanterns, or three (3) portable red emergency reflectors on the traveled part of the highway in the following order:

(A) One (1) device 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) device 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) device at the traffic side of the disabled vehicle not less than ten (10) feet behind and not more than ten (10) feet in front of the vehicle 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 under subdivision (1), the lantern or reflector may be used for this purpose.

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