Florida: 'Move Over' Law Changes You May Not Know About

Florida's "Move Over" law has been in effect since 2002, according to Mark Economou with the Boca Raton Police Department. But a change to the law went into effect July 1, 2014, and Economou says not many people are aware of it.

"This isn't about handing out tickets and making money. This is about protecting and saving lives and keeping first responders and those that work around us safe," Economou says. The new law states that drivers must move over for sanitation and utility crews that are pulled over on the side of the road. If you can't pull over, you must slow down to at least twenty miles below the posted speed limit. If the speed limit is twenty miles per hour or less, you must slow down to five miles per hour.