MADISON (WKOW) — Madison police said a sergeant was almost hit while making a traffic stop Wednesday night.

“Last night, another one of our Sergeants was nearly hit by a vehicle as he was out on a traffic stop in the John Nolen Drive area,” police said in a post on the south district’s blotter webpage. “The driver was later arrested for OWI.”

Police used the incident as an opportunity to remind the public of Wisconsin’s “Move Over” law.

“The law says that if there is an emergency vehicle pulled over with its lights flashing, drivers need to either move over if they can or slow down if they can’t,” police said. “Even if it is not a squad car on the side of the road, use common sense and still move over or slow down.”

Police said seven officers across the country have been hit and killed in similar incidents so far this year. “That’s more than in all of 2018.”