Highway Update: CHP calling motorists to ‘Slow Down and Move Over’ for Maintenance crews or First Responders
This past week California’s Highway Patrol (CHP), the Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) and the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) joined together to call it Crash Responder Safety Week to remind drivers to move over when safe to do so and slow down near traffic incidents and work zones to prevent serious injuries and deaths on California’s roadways.For the drivers in our Southwest Riverside area who daily experience traffic in their travels to and from San Diego and Los Angeles it is important to always remember the state’s Move Over law which requires drivers to move over a lane when safe to do so and slow down for approaching or stopped emergency or maintenance vehicles.However, on a crowded freeway it might be hard to move over safely, but to do the best you can. If nothing