CHAPTER 122

An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-255, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginta, relating to flares and other warning signals to be used by certain

vehicles when disabled on certain highways after dark.
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Approved March 9, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 46.1-255, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 46.1-255. Whenever any bus, * truck, trailer, house trailer or
mobile home is disabled and stops upon any portion of the traveled portion
of any highway in this State, except within the corporate limits of cities
or upon streets or highways which are artificially lighted at night, at any
time during which lights are required upon motor vehicles by § 46.1-268
the operator of such bus, * truck, trailer, house trailer or mobile home shall
place or cause to be placed on the roadway three red reflector flares or
torches of a type approved by the Superintendent. One of the flares or
torches shall be placed in the center of the lane of traffic occupied by the
disabled bus, * truck, trailer, house trailer or mobile home and not less
than one hundred feet therefrom in the direction of traffic approaching
in that lane, one not less than one hundred feet from such bus, * truck,
trailer, house trailer or mobile home in the opposite direction and one at
the traffic side of such bus, * truck, trailer, house trailer or mobile home
not closer than ten feet from the front or rear thereof; provided, however,
that if such bus, * truck, trailer, house trailer or mobile home is disabled
within five hundred feet of a curve or crest of a hill, or other obstruction
to view, the flares or torches in that direction shall be so placed as to afford
ample warning to other users of the highway, but in no case less than five
hundred feet from the disabled vehicle.