Move Over & Emergency Vehicles
Search names, statutes, classifications, penalties, points, and enforcement notes.
4 offenses
Crossing fire hose without consent
Florida Statute § 316.2034
A vehicle may not cross an unprotected fire-department hose laid on a street, highway, private road, or driveway for use at a fire or fire alarm without consent from the fire official in command. Confirm the hose's use, that it was unprotected, the vehicle's crossing, and whether consent was given. The rule applies on the specified private access areas as well as public roads.
Fail to yield to emergency vehicle
Florida Statute § 316.126(1)
When an authorized emergency vehicle immediately approaches while responding to an existing emergency with an audible warning or displayed blue/red lights, other drivers must yield, move as close as reasonable to the nearest curb/roadway edge clear of the intersection, and stop until it passes, unless an officer directs otherwise. Record the warning, approach, available stopping position, and failure to yield. This is the approaching-emergency-vehicle rule; stopped roadside vehicles use the Move Over requirements.
Following fire apparatus too closely
Florida Statute § 316.2025
Unless driving an authorized emergency vehicle on official business, do not follow responding fire apparatus closer than 500 feet. Also do not drive into or park within the block where apparatus has stopped for a fire alarm. Document the response, distance, and location. Following too closely is the moving track; prohibited parking has a different nonmoving classification.
Move Over Act violation
Florida Statute § 316.126(1)(b)
For qualifying roadside emergency, sanitation, utility, recovery, maintenance/construction, or disabled vehicles, move out of the closest lane as soon as safe on a road with at least two lanes in the same direction. If moving over is unsafe, or on a two-lane road, reduce speed by 20 mph below a posted limit of at least 25 mph, or to 5 mph for limits of 20 mph or less. A disabled vehicle qualifies through warning/hazard lights, flares/signage, or a visibly present person. Document the qualifying roadside activity, warnings, lane availability, and speed.