84   Sudden or extraordinary emergency

(cf model provisions, s 154)

(1)  It is a defence to a prosecution for an applicable road law offence if the defendant carried out the conduct constituting the offence in response to circumstances of sudden or extraordinary emergency.

(2)  This section applies if and only if the person carrying out the conduct reasonably believed that:

(a)  circumstances of sudden or extraordinary emergency exist, and

(b)  committing the offence is the only reasonable way to deal with the emergency, and

(c)  the conduct is a reasonable response to the emergency.