VERMONT - You are approaching an accident scene.  You come upon a snow plow, or a disabled car being towed from the highway.  In each of those cases you must move over and give these vehicles and workers as much room as possible.  It's the law.

"You're watching this car come at you, never moving, and you jump between the bed and the tires and it just misses you," said Fred Allard, a tow truck driver for Fred's Towing.  Once, Allard wasn't lucky enough to jump out of the way in time.  He was pinned by a car and woke up in the hospital with a massive bruise to his brain that took him a year to recover.  The last thing he remembers from that scene is hearing the helicopter coming for him in the distance.

Lyndonville Police Chief Jack Harris said, "Tow truck drivers, I think they are even more at risk than we are."

That is why in 2010, tow truck and snow plow drivers were added to the list of roadside workers protected by the Move Over Law first enacted in 2002.  Even with changes to the law, drivers are still getting hit.  According to the Agency of Transportation, since November 1, there have been 29 minor accidents, including one on February 27 where a VTrans snow plow was hit in Southern Vermont.

Signs reminding drivers of the law went up this summer, but the dangers still exist.

"Our doors are open.  We actually are caring for someone who might be on the roadway, which is a very common occurrence.  Even if they are not on the roadway and they are off the side, we still have to move that person," said Jay Wood, Director of CALEX Ambulance Services.

"At 50, 60, 70 miles per hour, a vehicle is a very dangerous instrument," noted Chief Harris.  St. Johnsbury Fire Chief Troy Ruggles said that it is very important for people to make way.  As for Allard, he says it still is very dangerous out there.

While the law protects Emergency Service workers along with Tow Truck and Snow Plow operators, it does not apply to road maintenance crews.  Those people are given indirect protection by heavy fines.