From State Rep. Dan Ugaste:
FIRST RESPONDERS Scott’s Law crashes tabulated.
State law forbids the act, by a driver, of passing a stopped and shouldered first-response vehicle in an adjoining lane at high speed.
The driver, if he or she sees a police vehicle or other first-response vehicle on the shoulder with its lights flashing, must either move over to the next lane or, if this is impossible, must slow down and pass at a rate of speed that will be safe for the first responder.
Usually it is best to move over if possible, which is why Scott’s Law is also often called the “Move Over Law.”
The Illinois State Police collects and tabulates reports of Scott’s Law crashes and violations, including incidents involving their own troopers.
If someone’s motor vehicle crashes into a shouldered First Responder vehicle, that constitutes evidence that Scott’s Law may have been violated.
On the weekend of January 14 and 15, the State Police counted the first Scott’s Law crashes of 2023.
The incidents took place in Cook County and in Kankakee County.
Both cases involved State Police troopers that had stopped on road shoulders and had activated their emergency lights.
In both cases, the cited driver was charged with driving under the influence (DUI), a charge that is separate from Scott’s Law.
If fully adjudicated, both drivers could be subject to separate sanctions for both charges, as well as other charges connected with each incident.
A driver who has violated Scott’s Law may be ordered to pay a fine of between $250 and $10,000 for a first offense.
Called “Scott’s Law” by first responders, the State law commemorates Chicago firefighter Lieutenant Scott Gillen.
In a fatal Dan Ryan Expressway roadside incident, Lt. Gillen was killed by a driver on December 23, 2000.
Expressways are inherently dangerous environments, 80K pound trucks as well as many other vehicles traveling
at high speeds make it so.
Stopping vehicles to issue a traffic violation puts the lives of both the police and motorists needlessly at risk.
So why do police insist on recklessly jeopardizing lives when it would be safer for all parties to exit the highway
in furtherance of a safer place to conduct a stop?
The answer to that question is quite simple – REVENUE COLLECTION, and nothing else.
FYI, I believe this also includes tow trucks etc.
“An authorized emergency vehicle under Scott’s Law, includes any vehicle authorized by law to be equipped with oscillating, rotating, or flashing lights (under Section 12-215 of this Code) while the owner or operator of the vehicle is engaged in their official duties. This includes emergency vehicles, Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) vehicles, and snowplows, among others.”
https://police.illinoisstate.edu/safety/scott/
Abram, If you obey the rules of the road you don’t have to pay. Let the scofflaws generate the revenue. Pull over more people, generate more revenue, make the roads safer over-all and less of the overall tax burden I have to pay.
Play stupid games win stupid prizes.
Porkboy, your unhinged gibberish has nothing to do with the matter at hand.
Once again, in the never-ending battle of wits, you lose. Thanks for playing.
Abe, Porky’s parents played Russian Roulette and his dad’s swimmers produced a liberal Einstein in his own mind. If there was ever a case for legalized abortion pushed by our resident lobbyist that married Mrs. Ed it seems Porky was missed in the liberal baby killer line.
His Einsteinian thought process is if cops generate more revenue the taxes the mental midget pays goes down. LOL. Simps know no bounds in proving their intelligence level.
Abram and gerbil dick Nice combo. Whose the bitch in your romance
Pokorny, take your filthy mind out of the gutter, please. If you can.
Why can’t dumb cops direct stopped motorists to parking lots or off ramps?
Seems to me this would save many lives…. mainly their own!
I have enough problems making eye contact, with rubes dumb enough to give me money at exit ramps.
I don’t want all that distraction with cops doing cop stuff.
Porky is obsessed with gerbils. His last colonoscopy found a carcass up his kiester from his weekend visits to Halsted. Porky measuring from your asshole does not count to the inches on your manhood. Maybe Monk could fluff you before you measure it next time.
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HonestAbe#1s last colonoscopy they found JT’s class ring.
There’s the Gerbil dick we all know and love
Over the years, while driving on the Jane Adams, have seen police, emergency, construction, etc vehicles on right shoulder with blazing, flashing, pulsing, strobing, etc lights at least a half mile ahead.
Rational and good drivers will vacate the right most lane.
But, crazies will not and will not slow down a little when approaching and passing the situation.
LOL. Porky and Joseph the butthole patrol president and CEO on full tilt. I love it
Do you always need the last word?