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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Naio wrote:et2 wrote:
I was in traffic court many years ago. A doctor got up to the front to plead his case to the judge for a speeding ticket. He was a surgeon and said he was called in for a life threatening emergency operation.
The judge told him it didn't give him the right to possible kill someone else with his driving. The ticket stood.
Interesting. Was his driving actually dangerous? Did he have proof of this lifesaving operation? I wonder if the judge just didn't believe him.
This is universal. Judges have to enforce the laws on the books. If you were ticketed for driving 1 mph over the posted limit, you are breaking the law - period. May not be fair in some cases, but the law is the law. Same if you were in an accident and your insurance co. investigated and found you to be 1 mph over the limit.
My FIL got ticketed once for doing 2 mph over the limit in his small town - cops had nothing else to do. Another time following this ticket, he was visiting a big city driving at the posted limit and holding up a huge line of traffic on a bridge. Motorcycle cop came up to him waving frantically to speed up. The normal speed was something like 10-15 over the limit.
Sometimes signs are the max, sometimes they're a minimum and sometimes it's a case of name your own speed limit. It's ridiculous out there.
