State Officials Reminding Drivers Of ‘Move Over’ Law As Traffic Increases

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Halfway done the year, Maryland Roadways are seeing a bump successful traffic.

Those numbers are a reminder for drivers from the Maryland Transportation Authority to determination implicit erstwhile they spot work vehicles connected the broadside of the road.

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Col. Kevin M. Anderson is Chief of MDTA Police. “Whether it’s red, white, bluish oregon amber, you conscionable request to dilatory down oregon determination implicit and springiness abstraction to the exigency workers moving connected the broadside of our highways,” helium said.

The caller decease of an AAA Tow Truck Driver successful Ohio is highlighting the risks Emergency First Responders successful Maryland look each day.

Dozens of drivers participated successful a procession successful grant of 32-year-old Glenn Ewing.

“You can’t legislate communal sense,” Ragina Ali of AAA said. “Motorists request to instrumentality the work of driving precise earnestly and wage attraction to what they’re doing. If idiosyncratic is connected the broadside of the road, adjacent if it’s a disabled motorist, marque it a wont to determination over.”

Garland Amaker has been moving with AAA for 15 years. He realizes his astir important ngo during the time is making it home. “You privation to beryllium harmless connected the broadside of the road. You got cars going past you 65 to 70 miles per hour,” helium said.

The instrumentality has been successful effect since 2010 and much than a decennary later, information is by acold the fig 1 regularisation each clip you get down the wheel.

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Since 2019, determination person been much than 10,000 enactment portion crashes successful Maryland. Nationwide, determination is an mean of 700 deaths per year.