special one day enforcement day is used to educate motorists about the move over law. "Every trooper kind of holds this day close to their hearts," Trooper Phil Jergenson said. On August 31st, 2000, Corporal Ted Foss was hit and killed by a passing motorist while conducting a traffic stop. "He worked out of the Winona station and I grew up down there so when that happened, it kind of hit close to home," Trooper Jergenson explained. So Trooper Jergenson teamed with colleague Trooper Melissa Fischer to run "move over" enforcement. Jergenson would pull people over for violations while Fischer parked behind him looking for "move over" violators. "Right here. There was plenty of opportunity for him to move over and he failed to do so," she said before pulling into traffic to go after a black Mercedes. "Are you aware of the move over law?" she asked the driver. "You've never heard of it?" was her follow up question. "Maybe it's getting better but it's going at a slow place. There are still plenty of folks that I will stop that have never heard of the law," she said. One driver she pulled over told her that she had heard about it on the news that very morning. "Now that we approach the winter months, we really try to get that message back out there again," Jergenson said. So far, in 2011, 728 motorists have been cited for not moving over; the average ticket is somewhere between $100 and $150. This year 23 trooper vehicles have been hit and 9 members of the state patrol have been injured. />
