Interstates versus secondary roads
Interstates versus secondary roads. I found that I prefer interstates because people are able to easily pass me. I don’t like tailgaters, they annoy me and make me nervous. At the same time I can unde...
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captnjack wrote:
Sorry but I don't believe this for a minute. Your brother is not writing people for going the speed limit or over AND impeding traffic at the same time. It's flat out ridiculous. If he did it once, he surely never did it a second time.
He has done it more than once, but not very often. The only times he has done it was when the driver had extreme attitude and actually said he could not be impeding traffic while going over the limit. Uh, you just incriminated yourself for speeding.
More often (regularly) just an impeding traffic citation (roughly half doing the speed limit and half under it). Head-on collisions due to passing are the biggest cause of fatalities on the highways around here. I used to teach driving school and during my own training I was advised to let the "students" know the same thing about impeding traffic,
I don't know how many were dismissed or reduced but I certainly wouldn't think returning to a court, months later and now hundreds of miles away, could be considered winning.
For the record the statute does not say impeding is driving under the speed limit, merely less than the normal flow of traffic (which is more than likely above the speed limit), where 5 or more vehicles are behind you.
C. If a person is driving a vehicle at a speed less than the normal flow of traffic at the particular time and place on a two-lane highway where passing is unsafe, and if five or more vehicles are formed in a line behind the vehicle, the person shall turn the vehicle off the roadway at the nearest place designated as a turnout by signs erected by the director or a local authority, or wherever sufficient area for a safe turnout exists, in order to permit the vehicles following to proceed.
Around here the highways are often winding roads where passing is indeed unsafe. Ergo, if you have a line of cars behind you you risk a citation if you don't let them past. That is a fact. There have simply been too many deaths from someone trying to pass after becoming enraged or whatnot. Doesn't make that person right, but two wrongs don't make a right--and in this case can take innocent lives (the unsuspecting people in oncoming traffic).
Michael
