Traffic laws

[mikekle]

I stay in the right lane on the highway, and go the speed limit. I never encounter trouble usually. I have been illegally passed on local roads, but I couldn’t care less. If someone is in such a huge rush, then they should leave earlier, then they don’t have to go so fast.

Id say I drive about average, I dont drive too slow, but even on the expressway, when Im going 65-70, I regularly get passed by people easily going 80+, If I see someone coming up fast, I try to get out of their way.

I always thought police loved to stop people for traffic violations, but apparently I was wrong, my dad is a city manager for large metro area, I asked him about this issue the other day, he said cops absolutely hate to pull people over for traffic violations, and dont normally do it unless the person is really driving dangerously, its not like the old days when they would pull people over for incomplete stops at a stop sign, this kind of thing happened back then due to them all having quotas to meet.

 

[pensmama87]

Id say I drive about average, I dont drive too slow, but even on the expressway, when Im going 65-70, I regularly get passed by people easily going 80+, If I see someone coming up fast, I try to get out of their way.

I always thought police loved to stop people for traffic violations, but apparently I was wrong, my dad is a city manager for large metro area, I asked him about this issue the other day, he said cops absolutely hate to pull people over for traffic violations, and dont normally do it unless the person is really driving dangerously, its not like the old days when they would pull people over for incomplete stops at a stop sign, this kind of thing happened back then due to them all having quotas to meet.

In some places they also have fewer resources available to them to catch speeders that are less reliable. State troopers in our state can use radar, but local cops cannot.