‘They just want to go home to their families’: Slow Down, Move Over rally aims to keep tow truck drivers safe [Video]

WELCOME BACK. IF YOU SEE FLASHING LIGHTS WHILE DRIVING, YOU SHOULD SLOW DOWN OR MOVE OVER BECAUSE IT’S THE LAW. BUT THAT DOESN’T ALWAYS HAPPEN. ONCE EVERY SIX DAYS. A FIRST RESPONDER DIES FROM DRIVERS WHO DON’T FOLLOW THAT RULE. OUR WVTM 13 ZOE BLAIR HAS MORE ON HOW A LOCAL MAN’S DEATH IS SPARKING CHANGE AND CREATING HARSHER PENALTIES FOR PEOPLE WHO BREAK THAT RULE. 25 YEAR OLD TOW TRUCK DRIVER JOHN HUBBARD WAS HELPING A STRANDED CAR ON THE SIDE OF INTERSTATE 2059 WHEN HE WAS TRAGICALLY HIT AND KILLED IN 2016. JOHN LOVED THIS JOB AND JOHN ALSO. JOHN ALSO WAS VERY MUCH AWARE OF THE DANGERS OF THE JOB, AND HE WAS VERY MUCH INTO THIS SLOW DOWN, MOVE OVER MOVEMENT WHEN THAT HAPPENED. JASON HUBBARD LOST HIS BIG BROTHER EVERY YEAR SINCE JOHN’S DEATH, LOCAL TOW TRUCK DRIVERS HAVE HELD A SLOWDOWN. MOVE OVER RALLY …