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Move Over LAW (FS 316.126)

By Elyse Weintraub Brown, Learn the Move Over LAW (FS 316.126) side of the roadway to provide an empty travel lane for
Community Education Are you unsure about what you the emergency worker. If you are not able to safely move
Specialist, Palm Beach are supposed to do when you are over, you must slow down to a speed of 20 MPH below
County Fire Rescue driving on a local roadway, and you the posted speed limit unless directed otherwise by a law
(561) 616-7051 or see DRIVING BEHIND YOU a fire enforcement officer.
ewbrown@pbcgov.org truck or other emergency vehicle On a two-lane roadway…Where there is NO lane of travel
with lights flashing and sirens wailing in the same direction to merge over to, you are REQUIRED
This message is brought on the way to an emergency? The Answer is to slow down to a speed that is 20 miles per hour less than
to you by your friendly …you must yield the right of way. When it is safe to do the posted speed limit. If the speed limit is 20 miles per hour
Firefighters from Palm Beach so, move over as close as reasonable to the closest edge or less, you must slow down to five miles per hour.
County Fire Rescue…. of the curb of the roadway, clear of any intersection and In the State of Florida, drivers must also move over for
Every day firefighters then stop. When this happens on highways and interstates, sanitation vehicles and utility service vehicles performing
and other emergency responders drive to emergencies. rather than stop, slow down and then safely move over so tasks related to their services, and wreckers displaying
What’s more, oftentimes the emergency they are driving that the emergency vehicle can pass. amber rotating or flashing lights performing a recovery or
to is actually in the roadway. Although they are helping Are you unsure about what you are supposed to do when loading on the roadside.
others and rendering aid, they are also at risk of being you are driving on a roadway with multiple lanes, and you Violating the Move Over Law can result in a fine and
injured and killed on our roadways by motorists. Help see a fire truck or rescue truck working an emergency ON points on your license; and worse, because it puts rescuers,
protect them…because if they can’t help you in your time THE SIDE OF THE ROAD? The Answer is….When it civilians, and other motorists at risk of serious injury and
of need…who will? is safe to do, merge away from a vehicle working on the even death. For everyone’s safety, share the Move Over
Law with others. Help us…help You! 

Pap Corps from page 18
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