It's a serious problem. State officials estimate about 30 times a year a trooper or a vehicle is struck on the side of the road while Troopers are speaking to other drivers
Apparently the threat of a ticket is making some drivers move to another lane to get out of the way of emergency vehicles stopped on the side of the road. Police in the Yakima and Sunnyside areas wrote 37 tickets in the first year of the "move over law...