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You can easily get an exhibition of speed ticket for that. It's a ticket for acceleration not actual speeding.
You can't get a speeding ticket unless someone has you on Radar/Lidar/pacing for exceeding the speed limit. Anything estimated will get tossed.
OP may be an aggressive driver but he was within his rights. Unfortunately for OP, over a long driving career aggressive behavior will eliminate one too many chances for accident avoidance and he'll get wrecked.
You can't get a speeding ticket unless someone has you on Radar/Lidar/pacing for exceeding the speed limit. Anything estimated will get tossed.
You don't get it. He's not talking about a speeding ticket for going over the speed limit, he's talking about an "exhibition of speed" ticket, which is any sort of excessive acceleration.
That's a ticket here in TX too. If you floor it off the line, a cop can cite you for it, even if you never break the speed limit.
I don't think the OP was in the wrong at all. This. Time. The idiot trying to turn left is the one who caused all the problems. I agree that quick acceleration can be dangerous, but if that other guy waits his turn then nothing happens.
Am I missing something? Didn't he state that the one turning left was in the opposing lane at another light, 800ft away. Almost 3 football fields. If the OP wasn't accelerating like a raging maniac the one making the left would have had plenty of time to do it if the lights turned at the same time. Sounds like all would have been fine if the OP accelerated like a normal human being. Of course that left turner would abort. Of course the other driver would swerve to avoid. And of course the 3rd driver (making a right) would have had to maneuver as well. You just don't accelerate like that at busy intersections when others are around. The OP was driving recklessly and is lucky he didn't, at minimum get a ticket. From his description the cop had every right to write him up. Speeding or not speeding that sounds like classic reckless driving to me!
OP: So what you are saying is that you have been saying dumb things on CD for a while and finally got a proof today that occasionally you get lucky doing the same on the road and even cop can't do a damn thing about that. Is that the final message here?
OP: So what you are saying is that you have been saying dumb things on CD for a while and finally got a proof today that occasionally you get lucky doing the same on the road and even cop can't do a damn thing about that. Is that the final message here?
The message is that my behavior behind the wheel is completely normal. Could be a role model for driver's ed to use. It is the other drivers that are the problem. If my behavior behind the wheel was bad, would a cop last summer let me go with a warning even though I was driving 20 miles over the speed limit? I told him I thought the posted speed limits were seasonal for the winter time because I've never seen anyone drive the posted limit on that particular stretch of road. When I was in a rush, no one did anything when I parked illegally and left a check written out to the city for the fine for parking illegally on the windshield either. My car and the payment to the city were still there.
Am I missing something? Didn't he state that the one turning left was in the opposing lane at another light, 800ft away. Almost 3 football fields. If the OP wasn't accelerating like a raging maniac the one making the left would have had plenty of time to do it if the lights turned at the same time. Sounds like all would have been fine if the OP accelerated like a normal human being. Of course that left turner would abort. Of course the other driver would swerve to avoid. And of course the 3rd driver (making a right) would have had to maneuver as well. You just don't accelerate like that at busy intersections when others are around. The OP was driving recklessly and is lucky he didn't, at minimum get a ticket. From his description the cop had every right to write him up. Speeding or not speeding that sounds like classic reckless driving to me!
You are correct, they weren't at the same intersection but 800 ft. (.15 mile) apart. And Mighty Pelican accelerated so fast from his light that the left turner 800 ft. down the road had to stop to avoid a collision. So that left turner was not at fault.
Having said that, 50 mph is roughly 73 feet/second. Something isn't mathing up.
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A note:
Just because you don't get a ticket for something doesn't mean you're right. It means you didn't get a ticket.
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