(The Center Square) – Illinois drivers using GPS assistance will soon have real time data provided by Illinois State Police on where they need to slow down and pull over.
Illinois law requires drivers to slow down and move over if there’s a disabled vehicle, emergency vehicle or traffic stop on the side of the road.
ISP Director Brendan Kelly said too many people are being injured or killed from motorists not slowing down and moving over.
“I’ve cried and prayed with way too many families and way too many vehicles in part because of sometimes deadly crashes that violated the move over law,” Kelly said during a news conference in Chicago Wednesday.
ISP reports two state troopers were killed and dozens injured in such crashes since 2019.
“We hope every single app that has the ability to provide this type of notification, we hope that is the trend,” Kelly said. “But we have to start somewhere and we had a good malleable and cooperative partner with the Waze app and Google.”
The agency said ISP is one of the first law enforcement agencies in the country to provide real-time GPS-based traffic information to help prevent such crashes. crashes.