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Article #1429Re: Speeding, Tailgating, and Reckless Driving
From: Scott M. Kozel
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1998 00:00
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Gumbyy@ticnet.com (Marc) wrote: > > "Scott M. Kozel" <kozelsm@richmond.infi.net> wrote: > >Joel Garry <joelga@pebble.org> wrote: > > >> Somebody cuts you off, so that means you are deliberately tailgating? > > >No, they have violated the law. > > You have your cruise control set at 55 in a 55 in the right lane, and > your speed stays exactly at 55. Someone passes you and then pulls in > one car length in front of you. They then proceed at the speed of 55 > mph. > > At what point must you decrease your speed to be legal? If you were > to be one car length behind them, even by the car in front's own > choice, would it eventually become tailgating? How would that be > determined? The wise thing to do would be to slow a bit until proper spacing was in place. Yes, it would eventually become tailgating. That would be determined by consulting your state vehicular legal code. Perhaps you could consult your lawyer do help determine this. -- Scott M. Kozel "The Virginia Highwayman" kozelsm@richmond.infi.net Highway and Transportation History Websites Virginia/Maryland/Washington D.C. http://www.richmond.infi.net/~kozelsm PHL area http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Campus/5961/pennways.html
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb1cb,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1cb,public X-Google-Thread: 1038e3,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid1038e3,public X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public X-Google-Thread: 10e16d,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e16d,public X-Google-Thread: f4d80,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4d80,public X-Google-Thread: 10001a,a813ba40692ae7c2 X-Google-Attributes: gid10001a,public From: "Scott M. Kozel" <kozelsm@richmond.infi.net> Subject: Re: Speeding, Tailgating, and Reckless Driving Date: 1998/07/03 Message-ID: <359CEA94.1559@richmond.infi.net> X-Deja-AN: 368413781 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <35941A85.7310@erols.com> <35952cff.791952@news.okc.oklahoma.net> <3595D2FF.1DB5@richmond.infi.net> <3597b3b3.59252089@news.pipeline.com> <35984D31.2F08@richmond.infi.net> <slrn6piucd.m6s.joelga@pebble.org> <35999C43.7399@richmond.infi.net> <ED374D435FC13FA9.9E9C16C131DD38CD.909A478B649C08D1@library-proxy.airnews.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Balanced Transportation Systems Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: kozelsm@richmond.infi.net Newsgroups: dc.driving,rec.autos.driving,misc.legal,alt.law-enforcement,seattle.general,ca.driving