The Georgia Department of transportation (GDOT) put the highway emergency response operator (HERO) program in place for 15 years. The main purpose behind the program was to try and less data congestion on the highways so the streets respond clear could be quickly and efficiently with hero officers to incidents and the flow of traffic.

One of the objectives of an officer hero is to minimize or remove all factors that cause an interruption in the flow of traffic on highways and at incident locations. By minimizing and relieve congestion, they try and reduce the response time that it takes for emergency vehicles to reach the scene of a car accident. The officers patrol the Atlanta area of freeways during the week and on weekends from early in the morning at 9:00 am. You must be also on call outside regular hours. Some of their other tasks are:

Support to law enforcement, first-response and other emergency service help clearly in stalled vehicles from the trip are streets which the FreewayHelp stranded motorists with mechanical problems, such as changing flat tires offer jump start weak batteries, fuel, coolant, and other car needs

First HERO operator killed

On the morning of 31 January 2011, a motorist on the highway I-85 in the emergency Lane, close to the Metropolitan held officer Spencer helped pass Parkway South to exit. He had parked his truck after the driver of vehicle and stand on the left front of the vehicle, when a Ford F-450 dual pickup pull his truck sideswiped a landscaping trailer. The hero was officer struck and killed in truck collision.

The driver of the dual-truck, Kirk Sherwood, was injured and taken to the hospital. He has hurt walk homicide offences, as well as a count "Movement of the right" and other minor traffic offences they had been charged.

The Move-Over law

The Move-Over act in Georgia provides that driver Move-Over for emergency vehicles on the side of the highway must end. The law was in place for law enforcement agencies and the drivers of aid or appeal are passed from crashes with cars ensures.

More than 30 States have move over laws due to the more and more police, disaster and technicians and DOT workers killed, passed around the country. The fine for is cited for a violation of the Move-Over is $500 in Georgia.

The Move-Over law requires that drivers (if possible) move over one lane, if you pass an emergency vehicle which is parked on the shoulder of the highway. If you on move one lane is not possible, then drivers are required, under the posted speed slow down and be prepared to stop.

Kick an accident, as mentioned above, where a law staff or driver is seriously injured officer or emergency or killed due to a driver do not comply with other consequences for that driver the Move-Over laws far more serious than just a simple are fine. A driver who injured a police officer, because the driver comply with the Move-Over law, must anticipate action criminal penalties and liability in a personal injury or wrongful death.

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