Police, ambulance, and fire engines with activated blue lights and sirens must reach their destination as fast as possible. Every second of delay can cost a life. Swedish law requires all road users to make way immediately.
Your Legal Obligation
When you hear a siren or see blue flashing lights, you must make way as quickly and safely as possible. This may mean pulling to the right and stopping, or clearing an intersection. It does not mean panic-braking or cutting across lanes dangerously.
The Emergency Corridor
In queuing motorway traffic, Swedish law (since 2020) requires drivers to create an emergency corridor (räddningskorridor). Vehicles in the left lane move as far left as possible; all other lanes move as far right as possible. This clears the lane boundary between the leftmost lane and the next lane for emergency vehicles.
After the Vehicle Passes
Do not immediately follow an emergency vehicle through red lights or against signals — only the emergency vehicle has the exemption. Do not use the cleared corridor for your own progress.
Exam tip: Creating the emergency corridor is now a legal requirement in Sweden. Questions about motorway corridor formation appear in the current theory test.