BC Highway Patrol conducts annual Slow Down and Move Over campaign [Video]

Across the province, BC Highway Patrol conducted their annual ‘Slow Down and Move Over’ campaign, aimed at educating drivers about the importance of safely slowing down and pulling over when emergency or work vehicles are parked on the side of the road with flashing lights.

“So, we have a work crew before us on the side of the road with lights activated, we have a plainclothes officer there who is in radio contact with us here, and anybody who is not slowing down or anybody who is not moving over, he’ll radio us the vehicle description and we flag them down,” explained Const. James Ward, with BC Highway Patrol.

In the first two hours at a police checkpoint just south of Lake Country, B.C., Ward says nearly 200 warnings were issued to drivers who failed to slow down and safely pull off to the side of Highway 97.

Despite the staggering number, …