Georgia driving lesson · Right-of-Way, Passing and Turns
The Move Over law and passing work vehicles
A 3-minute lesson from the Georgia course. Read the rules and examples, follow the handbook page references, and check your understanding before you move on.
Vehicles stopped on the shoulder with flashing lights are easy to hit. Georgia's Move Over law protects the people working beside them by keeping an open buffer lane. A similar law covers postal vehicles and sanitation crews.
The Move Over law protects:
Police officers, paramedics and firefighters
Wrecker (tow truck) operators
Highway construction workers
Active sanitation workers
Utility service workers using traffic cones and/or vehicles with flashing lights
It covers authorized roadside vehicles displaying flashing yellow, amber, white, red or blue lights, and any emergency, sanitation or utility service vehicle parked on the shoulder.
Approaching a postal vehicle, or a vehicle with active sanitation workers showing flashing yellow, amber, white or red lights: change to a lane not next to it if possible.
If a lane change is impossible, prohibited or unsafe, slow to at least 10 mph below the posted limit or 25 mph, whichever is more, and be prepared to stop.
On I-75 you see a police car with blue lights on the right shoulder. Check your mirrors and move one lane to the left. If traffic blocks you, slow below the speed limit and be ready to stop.
Check your understanding
Read the question, decide on an answer, then open it to check the explanation. These are Roadwise study questions based on the source handbook.
What does Georgia's Move Over Law require if you cannot safely change lanes away from a stopped emergency vehicle?
Keep the speed limit and pass
Slow to 25 mph and pass
Slow below the limit; be ready to stop
Stop in your lane until it leaves
Answer: Slow below the limit; be ready to stop
If you cannot move over safely, you must slow below the speed limit and be prepared to stop.
