Being pulled over by LEO

msmith1199 wrote:

RayChez wrote:
I got stopped by a highway patrol that was following me for about five miles a few years back. I approached a intersection where I was going to make a left turn, I had a green light and committed to make the turn. In the mean time the light turned yellow and then red while I was still making the turn. The highway patrol turned the red light on me because he claimed that my toad did not quit clear the intersection in time when the red light come on.

He approached on the passenger side and knocked on the door. Wife opened the door and I stayed in the drivers seat. Police acted kind of nervous and was talking real fast to where I could not understand half of what he was saying. So I told him to slow down and talk a bit slower so I could understand him. He claimed he was hoping I would clear the intersection, but that I had not and he had to do his job. I told him you can not make a turn with a coach like an automobile because things would be flying off the shelves. He gave me the ticket, cost me $580.00 (red light violation).

If it happened as you said, that is not illegal. And if it was CHP that stopped you they know this good and well or they never would have graduated from the CHP Academy. I'm betting there is more to the story.

Yes MSmith that is exactly the way it happened. We were coming back to Barstow, Ca. from Scottsdale, AZ and the citation happened in Yucca Valley on their main Street and I was turning left to head towards Lucerne Valley and then to Barstow. I felt like going to court and fight it and I knew I had a good chance of beating the ticket but I had to drive a long ways to go to court. I believe it was called something like Joshua Tree, Ca. where the case was being handled. So I decided just to pay and go to school here in Barstow for the citation.

So now every time I am getting close to an intersection I am a nervous person. :o