What would you do, stay put or pull over?
I have always wondered what other people would do in this situation, or at least what the majority would do. I'll tell you up front that I would have pulled over. Here's the situation. We were retur...
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tpi wrote:" (1) A person may not drive a motor vehicle at a speed slow enough to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law."
I read this as saying if you're going the speed limit, you don't have to pull over (you're not a slow moving vehicle). I do anyway FWIW. Most of the time I'm piling up cars I am doing the speed limit.
With speed limits, I agree that violating them puts you out of compliance with law, however a lot of places do not have speed limits. They have a speed above which is prima facie evidence of a basic speed law violation. Someone travelling above that speed is not automatically guilty or out of compliance with law. They are only presumed to be.
Unless you are playing judge, you're better off pulling over when you have a line of vehicles behind you. You also have to consider that you may drift slightly under the limit or may not have an accurate speedometer.
