States expand the MOVE OVER Laws! Heads up or get ready to be ticketed

In the State of Maryland law requires motorists to change lanes to avoid emergency vehicles and beginning Oct. 1 the law also covers any stopped vehicle showing warning signals.

Previously, Maryland drivers were required to move over for tow trucks, police cars and ambulances parked or stopped on a highway with flashing lights. A 2018 change to the law added a requirement to change lanes to avoid standing service vehicles.

After several similar incidents, the Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Association decided on a national standard in 2000. Over the next dozen years, all 50 states followed suit and instituted their own move over laws fine-tuned to their own specifications. And in July 2012, Hawaii became the final state to pass its own legislation.