How to Use hazard lights in a Sentence
hazard lights
plural noun-
The vehicle began the braking sequence at the 1:04 mark with the hazard lights engaged, coming to a complete stop.
— Jim Resnick, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2024 -
The vehicle will brake, come to a full stop in its current lane, turn on the hazard lights and bring itself to a standstill.
— Morgan Korn, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2023 -
Drivers fled, leaving their hazard lights blinking in the dust and darkness.
— Nara Schoenberg, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023 -
Police released the traffic camera footage of Russell pulling over in her red Mercedes to the shoulder with her hazard lights on.
— Arianna Johnson, Forbes, 17 July 2023 -
Ultimately, the system will stop the car in its lane, turn on hazard lights, and summon help via the OnStar phone connection.
— IEEE Spectrum, 30 Mar. 2018 -
Posts to social media showed the cars jammed up, their hazard lights flashing, blocking traffic for 15 minutes.
— Yiwen Lu, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023 -
The hazard lights on a shattered Hamas pickup truck were still blinking as the sounds of heavy machine gun fire and frequent explosions echoed nearby.
— Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2023 -
Troopers said that a vehicle with a flat tire came to a stop in the right lane of the highway and another vehicle behind it stopped and the driver activated hazard lights.
— Pilar Arias, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2023 -
Footage from Thursday published by AL.com appears to show Russell’s car driving slowly on the shoulder of the interstate, with hazard lights on, before coming to a stop.
— Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 16 July 2023 -
On a recent Friday evening, a driverless car pulled up alongside an outdoor dining shed in the Mission district of San Francisco, put on its hazard lights, and waited.
— Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 10 July 2023 -
Those millions of vehicles will get an over the air software update to make their hazard lights more effective and receive digital alerts of hazards ahead.
— Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 30 Mar. 2023 -
People walked their dogs wearing masks and sunglasses while 18-wheelers followed by trucks flashing hazard lights rumbled past.
— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023 -
On another occasion, a power outage took out a set of traffic lights, and Michael had to steer around a puzzled driverless car stopped in the intersection, hazard lights flashing.
— Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2023 -
The driver of the truck, who had stopped while authorities investigated another collision ahead of him, had switched on the truck’s hazard lights, according to CHP.
— Debbie Truong, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2023 -
Marinho had to make his around a robotaxi idling in the middle of the road, hazard lights flashing, apparently paralyzed by its own lawfulness.
— Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2023 -
Videos on social media show the robotaxis stopped with their hazard lights flashing, blocking a road and intersection preventing traffic from navigating around them.
— Harry Guinness, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023
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