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Move Over LAW (FS 316.126)

By Elyse Weintraub Brown, Learn the Move Over LAW (FS 316.126) roadway to provide an empty travel lane for the emergency
Community Education Are you unsure about what you worker. If you are not able to safely move over, you must
Specialist, Palm Beach are supposed to do when you are slow down to a speed of 20 MPH below the posted speed
County Fire Rescue driving on a local roadway, and you limit unless directed otherwise by a law enforcement officer.
(561) 616-7051 or see DRIVING BEHIND YOU a fire On a two-lane roadway…Where there is NO lane of travel
ewbrown@pbcgov.org truck or other emergency vehicle in the same direction to merge over to, you are REQUIRED
with lights flashing and sirens wailing to slow down to a speed that is 20 miles per hour less than
This message is brought on the way to an emergency? The Answer is the posted speed limit. If the speed limit is 20 miles per hour
to you by your friendly …you must yield the right of way. When it is safe to do or less, you must slow down to five miles per hour.
Firefighters from Palm Beach so, move over as close as reasonable to the closest edge In the State of Florida, drivers must also move over for
County Fire Rescue…. of the curb of the roadway, clear of any intersection and sanitation vehicles and utility service vehicles performing
Every day firefighters then stop. When this happens on highways and interstates, tasks related to their services, and wreckers displaying
and other emergency responders drive to emergencies. rather than stop, slow down and then safely move over so amber rotating or flashing lights performing a recovery
What’s more, oftentimes the emergency they are driving that the emergency vehicle can pass. or loading on the roadside.
to is actually in the roadway. Although they are helping Are you unsure about what you are supposed to do when Violating the Move Over Law can result in a fine and points
others and rendering aid, they are also at risk of being you are driving on a roadway with multiple lanes, and you on your license; and worse, because it puts rescuers, civilians,
injured and killed on our roadways by motorists. Help see a fire truck or rescue truck working an emergency ON and other motorists at risk of serious injury and even death.
protect them…because if they can’t help you in your time THE SIDE OF THE ROAD? The Answer is….When it is safe For everyone’s safety, share the Move Over Law with others.
of need…who will? to do, merge away from a vehicle working on the side of the Help us…help You! 

The Greatest (Stickball) Game from page 12 but it wasn’t fast enough, even if it was getting dark. He it was. We both watched in disbelief. It was 3-2.
knocked it out of the park. As Tweety would say, “My doodness draycious.” I won
Inning after inning progressed toward the fateful 7th. 2-1. and carry that triumph in my heart (or ego) to this day.
In the 7th, not so mighty Casey, me, came to bat. I patched Then one of those things happens, which causes a belief And my boys, remember them? I took them to Brooklyn.
together a few scratch hits to tie the score. Was fate on my that God really does love you. We played in the other yard, not facing any building. I
side? That wasn’t apparent yet. Having hit that not very fastball over the fence, he was wound up and threw my oldest, maybe 10, a high, hard
The 7th came and went. So did the 8th and the 9th. They working his mouth pretty well after that; all seemed lost. one, or the kind of high hard ones fathers throw to their
were followed by the 10th, 11th, and 12th. It was Fall. The The cement under my feet began to turn into mud, and I 10-year-old sons. He smacked it. Hit it but good. Another
sun was setting, and it was getting chilly. It was also getting began to sink into it. I could barely hold the bat, much less rising line drive, it cleared the fence and bounced into
hard to see, creating a batter’s nightmare. The trash-talking swing it. But swing it I did, and on the first pitch, I blooped Coney Island Avenue. Before automobile air conditioning
became increasingly intense – and even if we had to play one over his head. was common, everyone drove with the windows down.
by the light of the green, deco-looking street lights, this Man on first – actually, imaginary man on imaginary The ball? It hit the street and bounced – right through the
would not end in a tie. first. Then I whiffed twice. Need I go on? Surely, I must, open driver’s side window, onto the front seat of a passing
There’s a reason why good baseball coaches don’t let even though this is the stuff of sappy movies. Oldsmobile, whose owner kept it.
kids throw curve balls until well into their teens. To throw Down to my last out, and only able to see the ball Gone forever – unlike the memory.
a curve ball, the wrist is snapped to rotate the ball. This because it was new and still very pink, I leaned into his
also rotates the forearm, which twists the bicep, which is fastball, and “Holy baseball, Batman!” I hit it. Columnist and author Bill Gralnick was born and raised
attached to the shoulder. The constant torque could badly “Thwack!” in Brooklyn, NY. He is writing a three-part humorous memoir.
damage the arm. The ball didn’t rise to great heights and disappear onto The first is “The War of the Itchy Balls and Other Tales from
Suffice it to say that by inning 13, my right forearm the roof; It had no majesty. Instead, it flew like a bullet shot Brooklyn.” Just published is the sequel, “George Washington
began to feel like hot lead was flowing through it and like from a rifle. A rising line drive, it barely cleared the fence Didn’t Sleep Here.” Both are available on Amazon. You can
it weighed more than my entire body. I went to the fastball, and then bounced off the roof of a parked car. But a homer find his writing at https://www.williamgralnickauthor.com. 

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