Georgia: Driver Challenges 'Move-Over' Ticket

A driver is fighting a $710 move-over law ticket in DeKalb County. Alvin Bennett says the state trooper who stopped him noted on the ticket that there was not room for Bennett to move over, but said Bennett could have slowed down. Bennett claims that he did. “The first thing he said to me that he saw that I couldn’t move over because there was a vehicle there,” Bennett said. Bennett said the trooper told him the move-over law requires drivers who cannot move over to slow down below the speed limit and prepare to stop. “I was slowing down because I took my foot off the accelerator,” Bennett said.