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April 27th, 2021, 01:39 AM #1Grand Member
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🚓 Move Over Law in effect Tuesday in Pennsylvania 🚒
🚑 PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Pennsylvania's new Move Over Law goes into effect Tuesday morning and will mean stricter penalties for those in violation. 🚎
https://www.wnep.com/mobile/article/...0-d50e0add68c7
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April 27th, 2021, 07:49 AM #2
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Understandable and the right thing to do. What jerks my chain is, when a emergency vehicle is coming
in the opposite lane, everybody damn near jumps the curb, why
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April 27th, 2021, 08:06 AM #3
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Rules are written in the stone,
Break the rules and you get no bones,
all you get is ridicule, laughter,
and a trip to the house of pain.
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April 27th, 2021, 08:17 AM #4
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I understand that, I'm talking about when there are no other vehicles in the lane.
I see it happen daily when the emergency vehicle is the only vehicle in that lane,
and there are no side streets to turn on. And then we get the assholes that stop
when a school bus stops in the opposite lane on a divided highway.
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April 27th, 2021, 09:04 AM #5Grand Member
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Re: 🚓 Move Over Law in effect Tuesday in Pennsylvania 🚒
So cop can now sit on the side of a 4 lane road and pull every car that stays in that lane (without significantly slowing down)? Sounds like some easy $500-2000 tickets.
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April 27th, 2021, 09:12 AM #6
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I look around and if there's no reason for me to clear the road for an ambulance, I don't and I haven't been nabbed yet. The school bus thing I can almost understand. That school bus on the other side of a divided highway is so rarely encountered that people aren't familiar with what they're supposed to do.
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April 27th, 2021, 09:13 AM #7
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That moving over / slowing down is the sensible & correct thing to do doesn't stop me disliking yet-more nanny-state.
I've had plenty of times I passed a stopped emergency vehicle in the adjacent lane, because I had no safe way to get over. Did I slow down? Yes. Was it to 20 under the limit? No clue... probably not. It seems to me that trying to jam on the brakes and find the hazard switch at the same time is probably more distraction/more dangerous than just slowing down reasonably.
Sure, 95% of the time the cops will recognize compliance with the 'spirit of' the law and leave it be. But the 5% of the time some jackhole cop decides to 'make an example' is 6% too often.DGAF
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April 27th, 2021, 09:16 AM #8
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April 27th, 2021, 09:22 AM #9
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Re "people aren't familiar with what they're supposed to do."... I agree, and since the penalties for a 'school' violation can be painful 'discretion' is understandable. But IME cops aren't, apparently, that familiar with the letter of the law either.
I've been stopped twice for 'schoolbus' violations.
One time it was exactly a bus stopped on the other side of a divided highway.
The other time it was not a divided road, but the school bus passed me, still moving, with yellow flashers not red. I'd have literally had to slam my brakes to the point of invoking ABS and STILL would have been past the bus when I stopped. That one really pissed me off since I suspect the cop knew full-well it was bunk. He ended up ticketing me for an unsigned registration, with a full lecture about how he was "taking it easy" on me since the school bus violation was an 'automatic suspension'. He'd been behind me for about 3-4 miles at that point... it's why nowadays if there's a cop behind me I just turn in to the next parking lot and let him go on his merry way.
The maddening part is as a father who until recently had school-age kids I'm consciously rigorous about school buses and school zones. I drive by 2 schools on my daily commute. I'm that guy ACTUALLY going 15 in the active school zone (with three cars tailgating me.)DGAF
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April 27th, 2021, 01:30 PM #10
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Does this law only apply in the Pocono Mountain Region?
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