Actually my eyes are fine. I had my eyes checked back in Feburay.
I didn't mention this but there IS a stop sign at the top of the mountain.
I stopped. Popped it into 3rd. And slowly went down the hill.
I kept shifting until i got to 6th gear. 15 mph.
The posted speed limit on that mountain is 10 mph.
I was doing 15 mph and gaining on a truck doing 10. I could've hit the brakes harder, got down to 9 mph and popped her in 5th but im a noob and panicked a bit.
The sign was at the bottom. The cop was at the bottom. The cop pointed to the sign that was at the bottom.
I have a dash cam in my truck and rewatched the video when i got home. I didn't see any signs pertaining to stopping at the bottom until I got to the bottom.
Failure to obey signage in PA
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I made an error that day and got a citation and paid it. Lesson learned. I was just wanting to see if anyone knew if this will show on my illinois mvr.
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you have to be able to know how to down shift going down a hill, it can be done , whoever tells you never do it also needs to learn.
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if your rolling hard stomp on the brake let up stomp hard again let up do it a third time hard and you should be able to get it in gear. ya need the Jake to assist ya. but ya should have been able to hit a lower gear at those speeds you mentioned.
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Nothing wrong with downshifting on mountain. Ive done it many many many times. But i also know how to shift. If ur not experienced then dont try it u til ur very good at downshifting.. It only takes a couple seconds in neutral to gain to much road speed and at that point better say a prayer and pop ur spring breaks hope they can get ya stopped before u put it in the ditch... I have been on that highway in pa . speed limit 10 mph. Lets just say u were lucky to get a ticket and able to get er slowed down enough. U could have easily lost it out of gear and been hitting the bottom of that hill at 100mph plus thats if ur lucky
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