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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>364631</law_id><section_number>46.2-1040</section_number><catch_line>Hazard lights</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2026/" slug="2026" current="TRUE" last_updated="2026-08-02">2026</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="101" identifier="46.2">Motor Vehicles</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="3" identifier="III">Operation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="2" identifier="10">Motor Vehicle and Equipment Safety</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="3" identifier="3">Lights and Turn Signals</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p><span class="dictionary">Motor vehicles</span>, <span class="dictionary">trailers</span>, and <span class="dictionary">semitrailers</span>, when temporarily stopped on the traveled or paved portion of the <span class="dictionary">highway</span> so as to create a traffic hazard, shall flash all four turn signals simultaneously to signal approaching motorists of the existing hazard whenever such <span class="dictionary">vehicle</span> is equipped with a device which will cause the four turn signals to flash simultaneously. All four turn signals may be flashed simultaneously on a <span class="dictionary">vehicle</span> slowed or stopped at the scene of a traffic hazard, when traveling as part of a funeral procession, or when traveling at a speed of thirty miles per hour or less. Except for vehicles traveling as part of a funeral procession, all four turn signals shall not be flashed simultaneously while the <span class="dictionary">vehicle</span> is traveling faster than thirty miles per hour.</p><p>School buses shall flash all four turn signals when approaching and stopping at railroad grade crossings.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 46-303; 1958, c. 541, &#xA7; 46.1-299; 1962, c. 89; 1968, c. 99; 1972, c. 445; 1974, c. 347; 1979, c. 44; 1989, c. 727; 2001, c. 359.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
