HCC §24-125
Daytime warning flags for disabled vehicles
Read the official text at hawaiicounty.gov ↗If your vehicle breaks down on the road or shoulder during daylight, you must put out two red flags. Place one about 100 feet in front and one about 100 feet behind your vehicle in the same traffic lane.
The ordinance, as written (Hawaiʻi County) — Placement of warning devices during daylight hours
A copy, taken August 21, 2026. The version published by Hawaiʻi County is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
Whenever any vehicle of a type referred to in this division is disabled upon the traveled portion of a highway or the shoulder thereof at any time when the display of fusees, flares, red electric lanterns or portable red emergency reflectors is not required, the driver of the vehicle shall display two red flags upon the roadway in the lane of traffic occupied by the disabled vehicle, one at a distance of approximately one hundred feet in advance of the vehicle, and one at a distance of approximately one hundred feet to the rear of the vehicle.
Published by the County of Hawaiʻi Office of the County Clerk.
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