Originally Posted by
jackal
Originally Posted by
USirritated
There are jurisdictions, including the entire state of California, which have laws requiring drivers to keep pace with other traffic, and you cannot be ticketed for driving over the speed limit if other traffic was flowing at 15 or 20 miles over posted, and you were matching them. So yes, there is a legal justification for driving over the speed limit.
I'd like to confirm this with a lawyer or CHP officer before using this as a defense on my next CA speeding ticket
, but if so, this is AWESOME. Never heard about this despite growing up in CA, but it makes total sense there!
Well, I wouldn't be sure if it's quite as simple as that. First of all, it may depend on how many other cars there are, where you are in relationship to them (I doubt if it works if you're the car
leading the speeders!), road conditions, whether it's a construction zone, and perhaps also whether speeding would the
only reason for stopping you.
I hadn't heard the above, but I've heard that in some cases (but hadn't heard what cases) the CHP doesn't stop people for only speeding. But watch out if you're speeding and you have a tail light out, or whatever, I guess!