EVERYONE VIOLATES TRAFFIC LAWS, sometimes without realizing it. You can’t drive anywhere without there being a posted speed limit, yet drivers habitually go faster than those limits. It is a common belief that one is safe exceeding these limits somewhat, that cops won’t do anything unless your speed is too much to ignore. There is a certain amount of truth to that, since no officer wants to stand before a judge and say he ticketed some otherwise law-abiding citizen for doing 48 MPH in a 45 zone. Another traffic law often violated is the Right on Red allowance. Most, if not all, of these state statutes specifically say that a driver can do this, but only after first stopping to check for traffic. I see drivers go right on red while barely slowing their cars, if at all. There is another traffic provision that cops sometimes set up to witness and then cite: cutting corners. This is when a driver is too impatient to sit through a red light while waiting back a few cars before he can turn right, so he just cuts through the parking lot of the business on that corner. Then there’s the thoughtless driver who changes direction of travel without signaling, an offense that can be dangerous on a busy highway. You want to scream at him/her, “Don’t you know what that little dooey is that protrudes out from the left side of your steering column?” But speeding, perhaps the most frequently occurring, is also the most dangerous. People over-estimate their ability to quick stop a fast-moving vehicle and, in most jurisdictions, a motor vehicle is considered a deadly weapon. Finally, if you think that you can beat a speeding ticket, first try flying to the moon on gossamer wings…
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