The Rabun County Sheriff’s Office and Rabun County Schools recently teamed up to give student drivers a real-life road lesson.
Students in the driver’s education class got to experience what it’s like to be pulled over by law enforcement. Students drove in a specially-marked vehicle on GA 15/US 441 as a deputy tailed them.
“This event was to provide the students a practical exercise to teach them the proper, safe way to pull over for not only law enforcement but as well as to educate them on the ‘move over law,’ ” the sheriff’s office says.
Georgia’s move-over law requires drivers to move into the opposite lane when approaching patrol cars and other emergency vehicles parked in or alongside the roadway.
The outing also gave students a chance to experience what it’s like to be pulled over for a traffic stop. No doubt, that’s one lesson these students, and their parents, hope they’ll never have to use.
