A friendly reminder from a state trooper: Move over, it’s the law ... still

    I know my readers would never intentionally break the law or endanger anyone’s life. So this time I wanted to talk to you about the move over law. By the end of the article, I want you to be knowledgeable about the law and then to go have a conversation with someone you know. This could be family, friends, co-workers or, if you’re not the shy type, perhaps a stranger. This is the only way we can get control of injuring or killing officers in the line of duty.
    The road has been my office for the past 14 years and as a motorcycle officer for the last 11 years. I can tell you that over those years during traffic contacts, there has been more than one time I have had to run out of the way of a car drifting out of its lane heading toward me. None of the times I was almost hit was by someone trying to hit me; they just weren’t paying attention to driving. That means they weren’t able to correctly do the only thing they were supposed to accomplish sitting behind the wheel. I can assure you the officer will be anything but sympathetic when he catches up to the driver that has almost hit him.
    A lot of traffic enforcement officers spend a large amount of time standing somewhere on the roadway during their shift. Remember, this is their office. Try to think of it this way: You’re sitting in your office, and every day cars speeds by your chair going 65 mph a foot and a half from you. Oh and by the way, sometimes they may actually hit your chair. If this happened to the average person every day, I guarantee people would be changing their driving habits immediately. They would demand it, because that is absurd behavior to have to put up with every day.
 

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