GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Michigan State Police have launched some jarring video to remind drivers of the state’s “move over” legislation.
The video is from an in a single day crash that occurred final month on I-75 in Royal Oak. Troopers had been investigating a multicar crash that had blocked two left lanes when a tractor-trailer approached.
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In accordance with MSP, the truck driver was making an attempt to cross visitors getting off of the freeway once they noticed the crash website. The highway was too slippery and with nowhere else to go, the tractor-trailer barreled by means of the crash scene, hitting a number of MSP autos and no less than one pedestrian automobile. The truck driver was arrested for reckless driving, in line with state police. Nobody was significantly harm.
The video clip exhibits a number of angles of the crash, together with dashboard digicam video of 1 trooper sitting in one of many automobiles that was hit and one other exhibiting two troopers leaping over a concrete median to keep away from being hit.
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Within the moments main as much as the crash, the sound from the video exhibits first responders speaking about drivers going too quick.
“Like dude, it’s ice,” one trooper mentioned.
Michigan State Police has launched video of a December crash as a reminder of the state’s “move over” legislation. A rushing tractor-trailer rammed by means of a crash scene, hitting a number of autos and forcing two troopers to leap over a median to keep away from being struck. (Courtesy MSP)
Michigan carried out a “move over” legislation in 2018 that requires all drivers to decelerate to no less than 10 miles per hour under the posted velocity restrict and supply no less than one lane of area whereas passing any emergency automobile that has its lights flashing. That features police and hearth autos, ambulances, tow vans and building and roadway help autos.
“When in doubt, move over,” MSP mentioned in a social media put up.
Simply final yr, MSP misplaced two officers who had been struck on the roadway, Trooper Joel Popp and Motor Provider Officer Daniel Kerstetter.
Popp was hit and killed final January conducting a visitors cease on I-75 in Saginaw County. Kerstetter was nonetheless inside his automobile when it was rear-ended and rammed right into a trailer final September in Wayne County.
