State police are warning motorists that New York’s “move over law” is being expanded as of New Year’s Day to include tow trucks, other emergency vehicles and highway crews.
The law requiring drivers to shift lanes when approaching flashing police lights will now include flashing amber lights as well.
If it isn’t safe to change lanes, drivers must slow down.
The law enacted to protect police and others originally took effect Jan. 1.
(Source: NBC New York)
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I don’t know what this law means.
move over when? where? does it mean that an emergency vehicle (and now a dot vehicle) in right line means
that I can’t pass in the lane to the left and must move over even further? that is, effectively makein a one lane blockage into a two lane blockage?
or perhaps if the vehicle is on right shoulder I must not pass in the right lane. how far onto the shoulder can the car be and still forbid right lane use?