Acosta Bridge lights up black and yellow to honor Florida tow truck driver who was killed while working

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Acosta Bridge might be lit up in black and yellow and have a parade of tow vehicles drive throughout it on Sunday night time.

It’s all to honor a tow truck driver, Austin Gayne, who died after being struck whereas working.

Organizers of the parade stated they’re doing this to boost consciousness of a regulation that was designed to avoid wasting his life.

The regulation they’re elevating consciousness for is the “Transfer Over regulation.”

They stated if somebody would have moved over or slowed down when driving by Gayne, he would nonetheless be alive at present.

Dozens of tow truck drivers gathered in a Jacksonville car parking zone Sunday afternoon getting ready to drive throughout the Acosta Bridge.

All of them confirmed as much as assist and lift consciousness for Gayne and others who died like him.

Gayne died in 2021 at 24 after being concerned in a crash.

The daddy of two together with a mechanic was within the technique of towing a dump truck when a automotive crashed into them in Orlando.

Gayne spent a number of weeks within the hospital earlier than dying.

Organizers of the occasion stated they’re doing this experience to get drivers to maneuver over a lane for stopped autos with displayed flashing lights.

Or to decelerate to twenty mph as a result of it’s the regulation.

They are saying doing these issues would assist save extra lives.