DRIVER WHO STRUCK TEXAS CONSTABLE MAY HAVE VIOLATED RARELY ENFORCED LAW

All the way to Memorial Hermann hospital paramedics performed CPR, trying to keep a Pct. 5 deputy constable alive. But two hours after 38-year-old Jason Norling was struck by a passing motorist, he was pronounced dead.

Deputy Norling had pulled over a blue sedan. His motorcycle parked at the sedan’s side.

“He was standing up next to the window of the other vehicle talking to the other violator when he was struck by the passing vehicle,” said Capt. Terry Urman. The passing vehicle was a black SUV. The deputy's body was thrown 90-feet.

Constable Phil Camus believes if the driver of the black SUV had followed the law, his deputy would still be alive. Norling was an experience ticket writer on the toll way. “You can only get over so far, and he was over as far as he could get, had the motorcycle back there for protection,” the constable said.

Senior Assistant City Attorney Lloyd Segall said the law is clear. When you see and emergency vehicle stopped ahead.

You either must move over one lane or you must decrease your speed 20-mph from the posted speed limit. Even with the law, writing this type of citation is not easy because an officer is already involved with the traffic stop.

And the numbers back that up. 11 News checked with DPS tonight and since the law was introduced in Sept. 2003 troopers have only written 6,905 tickets for failure to slow down or change lanes.

And sources told 11 News, that when the law first surfaced, HPD officers were actually discouraged through a memo not to enforce it because too many citizens were complaining about receiving citations. The man who was driving the SUV that killed deputy Norling has not been charged tonight.

What happened along the toll way will be given to a grand jury for review.