Ayup...

As far as I'm concerned, unless he's got his flashers on, a cop is "just
another car", and gets no special consideration from me, regardless of
what he's doing. With flashers, I get out of the way and/or stop (if
he's "aiming" at me) but otherwise... <shrug> He's just another road
hazard to be dealt with, and doesn't get handed any special treatment
just 'cause he's got a stupid-looking paint job and a bunch of fancy
gizmos on his ride.

The law here says a person isn't allowed to impede the flow of traffic,
there is no mention of speed.  Make the cop wait and get a ticket.

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I once GOT a ticket from a cop doing that very thing.

I personally think that that's a real a-hole move, but hey, if

I told the cop *exactly* what I did and that it was because he pulled up
so close behind me. He just about had a stroke and said that I was
accusing him of "entrapment." I said, "yes, I am." You should have seen
the shades of purple the little Napoleon turned. But it was his word
against mine, so I took defensive driving rather than fight it. No skin
off my nose, I have to take the course every couple of years anyway to
be authorized to drive company vehicles when I need to. And now I *slow*
to *exactly* the posted limit if a cop pulls up behind me in the left
lane, even if it means falling back in behind the car I was passing.

No, of course, you cannot swerve in front of someone and avoid
culpability for a resulting accident.

A person following you has the responsibility to maintain a proper
speed and distance however, and even if you lock up your brakes,
and he hits you, he is normally at fault.  The tailgater might argue
that your actions were reckless.

In fact, there is a provision in which some state laws say that the car
behind had "control of the lane"  if he hits a car that rapidly pulls in
front of him, it is thus the fault of the driver in front.

Well your always going to get alot of rants on this topic.

I would like to tell you that I have personally seen someone die
horribly, from the same actions you took.

It's a gray area, it's hard to say who's fault with 100% certainty, but
the guy that died in my mind was innocent of any mal-intention.
The guy that did what you did, was guilty, and exacted his own justice,
as a result several people were injurted, 100's of thousands of dollars
of property was damaged, and a human life was taken.

A guy driving a late model camaro was going fast, really fast, tripple
speed fast in some spurts on a local freeway.  The road, his car, and
him the driver were all very capable of the speeds he was traveling.
None the less it was illegal, and he was in the wrong for going this
fast.

So here is the complication, some guy like you, was having a bad day,
looked in the rear view mirror, and saw that the other driver had
basically committed to passing through traffic in a particular lane,
since it was the only available window through traffic on a 4 lane
highway, it was obvious where he was going to go even if he wasn't
already in that lane.

The camaro driver carried on in that lane at high speed, and you could
see him coming for a long long distance back on a straight stretch of
road.

The f!@# A@!#$ decided, hey, I'm going to teach this guy a lesson for
driving fast, he pulled in front of the guy when it was far far too
late.

There is no man made machine that could have stopped or even slowed
down to less than lethal impact speeds.

WHO put them in this situation by his own will?  Yes, the man who
decided he was going to teach everyone a less that day.  He literally
caused an accident that never would have happened that day, on that
stretch of road, at that very instant.

He waited until the man had no were else to go, and cut off his window,
he had already commited beyond the point of return, and because of this
jerk, an accident was not avoidable.

The man did as best he could to avoid the car that swerved in front of
him, the guy actually missed several cars and hit the wall on purpose
to miss them, his car then flipped over, and landed on HIM!!! (T-tops)
the car then proceded to sit on top of this poor guy, and drag him down
the freeway for over 1500 ft.

Basically this guy was the worlds biggest grease stain on the freeway,
being ground down to nothing by his car as it crushed him down the
paved freeway; because some a.shole decided he could play judge jury
and executioner, and in one swift moved he caused alot of harm to alot
of people.

If that was my son that died, I would have beat that instigators a.s to
a bloody pulp with my bare hands.

I don't give a sh.t if he was driving fast, there is no excuse for the
malicous actions captain speed enforcement took, and he is at fault.
The sad thing is that he gets to live the rest of his sad pathetic
days, while his lunacy ended the life of another.

I may tell another story about my pet peaves on the E-way, but that's
enough for my blood pressure for now :(

I know in some states it was (and still maybe) illegal to pass on the
right. When I lived in Alabama I came across this phenomena. I spoke to
a few people who where born and raised in Alabama and some said that is
what they were taught by their daddy. Never pass on the right. One even
implied that I was a dangerous driver becuase I admitted I passed on the
right.

I wasn't insulted because these are also the idiots that parked on the
right hand side break down lane on a 4-lane interstate to watch a
fireworks display.

I believe these people actually enjoy blocking traffic.