While I tend to pull into a left lane if there is an emergency vehicle on the side of the road, I never knew it was a law…until now.
Here’s an article from a man in Ottawa who got nailed with a $490 ticket and three demerit points for not knowing that it is law to pull into the left hand lane (on multi-lane highways) so you don’t go near an emergency vehicle.
My thoughts: I do agree with the law wholeheartedly. However, I do not agree that people should be getting fines of this extreme nature on a law that (according to the Ottawa Citizen article) has been in effect for the past three years and I am one of the many who have not heard about it. You would think that new driving laws of this serious nature would have an advertising campaign of sorts.
Here’s the article.
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