” Move Over ” Law, expensive ticket!!
I just read this in the Pasadena Star News. It is now in California as of January 2010.
If any emergency vehicle is stopped with lights flashing in the slow lane or off the road, freeway or street, slow down or move to the next lane. They are now ticketing for this law because it is bringing in money. It can be very expensive. Read the web site below.
Subject: " Move Over " Law, just in case you have not heard this
Important Law to Share: I wanted to let my Medlock Bridge neighbors
know about the GA move over law. My son got a ticket on
Pleasant Hill coming back from Wal-Mart. A Duluth police car
(turned out it was 2 police cars) was on the side of
the road giving a ticket to someone else. My son slowed down
to pass but did not move into the other lane. The second
police car immediately pulled him over and gave him a
ticket. My son and I had never heard of the law. It is
a fairly new law that states if any emergency vehicle is on
the side of the road, if you are able, you are to move into the far lane.The cost of the ticket was $754, with 3 points on your license and a mandatory court appearance.
Please let everyone you know that drives about this new law.
It is true (see details at the following web address). It states that except two states, all the other US states (even Canada ) enacted similar kind of law.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/traffic/moveover.asp
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Blessings,
Lihua
