Proposal Seeks To Expand Florida’s ‘Move Over’ Law

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TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) – Motorists would person to enactment down their cellphones erstwhile moving implicit for instrumentality enforcement and different vehicles stopped connected the broadside of the road, nether a measurement filed Friday to grow Florida’s “Move Over” instrumentality and the state’s prohibition connected texting portion driving.

The connection (HB 127) by Rep. Emily Slosberg, D-Boca Raton, would prohibit the usage of handheld wireless devices portion operating a centrifugal conveyance wherever archetypal responders are actively working.

“The broadside of the roadworthy is 1 of the astir unsafe places for archetypal responders due to the fact that of distracted drivers,” Slosberg said successful a release.

“I judge we tin supply different level of extortion for the men and women who enactment their lives connected the enactment for america each day.”

Slosberg, who conscionable implicit 25 years agone was earnestly injured arsenic a rider successful a clang that killed her duplicate sister, has focused heavy connected traffic-safety issues since her predetermination to the Florida House successful 2016.

State lawmakers successful 2019 made texting portion driving a “primary” offense, which allows instrumentality enforcement officers to propulsion implicit motorists for texting portion down the wheel.

The alteration besides required motorists to spell hands-free connected wireless devices successful schoolhouse and enactment zones.

The Move Over instrumentality requires motorists to determination into a lane — erstwhile imaginable and tin beryllium done safely — oregon to dilatory to a velocity 20 mph little than the posted velocity bounds erstwhile approaching stopped instrumentality enforcement, emergency, sanitation, inferior work vehicles and tow trucks.

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