{"id":107965,"date":"2015-11-30T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-troopers-remind-drivers-of-move-over-law\/"},"modified":"2015-11-30T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T02:04:00","slug":"colorado-troopers-remind-drivers-of-move-over-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-troopers-remind-drivers-of-move-over-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado troopers remind drivers of \u2018move over\u2019 law"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=17d1a823-8885-4bdd-bcbd-a66007cd149f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=17d1a823-8885-4bdd-bcbd-a66007cd149f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=17d1a823-8885-4bdd-bcbd-a66007cd149f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=17d1a823-8885-4bdd-bcbd-a66007cd149f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"1542\" height=\"1028\" alt=\"The Colorado State Patrol is reminding drivers they must slow down and move over when approaching all stationary emergency vehicle.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Colorado State Patrol is reminding drivers they must slow down and move over when approaching all stationary emergency vehicle.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Herald file photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two troopers were recently killed in the line of duty, one by a suspected drunken driver and another during a pursuit. The most recent death involved Trooper Jaimie Jursevics, 33, who was apparently struck by a drunken driver Nov. 15 on Interstate 25 in Castle Rock. Cadet Taylor Thyfault, 21, was killed May 23 when a car struck him near Longmont.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the two officers who were killed this year, five officers were struck and killed by vehicles last year, said Trooper Aaron Robertus, with the Colorado State Patrol office in Durango.<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado Legislature passed the move over law in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimply put, the statute states that when approaching a stationary emergency vehicle, a driver must move over when the roadway allows or reduce their speed to a safe speed in order to pass the location of the stationary emergency vehicle,\u201d Robertus said.<\/p>\n<p>Failure to do so can result in a four-point violation and a fine of $169.50 or more if the violation results in a crash.<\/p>\n<p>Robertus said that the average perception-reaction time of a driver is 1.6 seconds. That means a car going 60 mph will travel 140.16 feet before applying the brakes.<\/p>\n<p>He asked drivers to minimize distractions while driving, including cellphones, food and radios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado State Patrol is reminding drivers they must slow down and move over when approaching all stationary emergency vehicle.Jerry McBride\/Herald file photo Two troopers were recently killed in the line of duty, one by a suspected drunken driver and another during a pursuit. The most recent death involved Trooper Jaimie Jursevics, 33, who was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[1152,13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-107965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-emergency-incident","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107965"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=107965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}