12/12/2025

N. WISCONSIN - Drivers in Wisconsin are now required to move over or slow down when approaching disabled vehicles on the side of the road under a new law signed by Gov. Tony Evers.  Evers signed Assembly Bill 409, now 2025 Wisconsin Act 54, into law this week, expanding the state’s Move Over Law to include disabled vehicles stopped along the road with hazard lights on, emergency devices or flares placed near the vehicle, or one or more persons attending to the vehicle and visible to motorists.  This law expands Wisconsin’s Move Over law was enacted in 2001 which requires drivers traveling on a road with two or more lanes in the same direction to slow down and / or move out of the lane closest to stopped law enforcement vehicles, ambulances, fire trucks, tow trucks, utility or highway maintenance vehicles with their warning lights activated.  Violators could be cited with a noncriminal moving violation and a fine of up to $300.  Penalties increase if the violation results in an accident.