07/05/2025
SLOW DOWN MOVE OVER!
DJ should be home with his family celebrating, like you are with yours. But he his not. DO BETTER people. Give us the chance to do our jobs to HELP YOU and then make it home to our families!
SLOW DOWN MOVE OVER!!!
His name is Daniel “DJ” Ortiz.
He was 24 years old.
He was doing his job helping someone broken down on the side of the highway, like he’d done a hundred times before. DJ was a tow truck operator. One of the good ones. Kind. Reliable. The kind of guy who’d give you the shirt off his back without thinking twice. He had a future. A family. A heart bigger than most people can comprehend.
And now he’s gone.
Not because of a freak accident. Not because of bad weather.
But because someone couldn’t be bothered to SLOW DOWN and MOVE OVER.
DJ died on the shoulder of Route 287.
A car plowed through the scene like his life meant nothing.
Like the flashing lights, the giant tow truck meant nothing.
Like he meant nothing.
Let’s be clear this was not an accident.
It was a result of recklessness. A result of selfishness. A result of people treating the side of the highway like it’s invisible.
DJ is not invisible. He was a son. A friend. A teammate. A hero.
And now, his family is burying their 24-year-old boy.
Because someone couldn’t take two seconds to change lanes.
How many more have to die? How many more families have to get the call? How many more roadside workers need to be struck, shattered, and killed before something changes?
We are DONE being quiet.
We are DONE watching our brothers and sisters die out there.
This is not just part of the job this is preventable.
This is a movement. This is .
And this is a demand:
SLOW DOWN. MOVE OVER. PAY ATTENTION.
DJ deserved better.
He deserved to live.
And if this system, these roads, these people can’t see the worth of a 24-year-old man just doing his job, then we will scream it until they do.
This is for DJ.
This is for every roadside worker killed by negligence.
This is for the ones still out there your brothers, your dads, your daughters praying they make it home.
Say his name. Share his story. Make them care.