I know the law is where you should try to move over to the nearest lane away from emergency/police vehicles that have their flashing lights if its safe to do so, if you cannot safely do so then you must slow down.
Now, of course, driving a tractor trailer can make it difficult to move over sometimes and if you cant you slow it down and keep to leftmost side of your lane as much as you can (e.g. vehicle with flashing lights are on right shoulder of multi-lane highway).
My question is if one is able to easily move over to the adjacent lane, say a quarter mile before, do you also have to slow down, too. or only if you can't move over,,?
I recently had 2 hard braking instances where a few cars moved over ahead of me and I slid right behind them like a quarter to a 5th of a mile prior.. we were all doing the speed limit thereabouts (60-65) prior to. However, I didnt expect to suddenly hit the brakes when the lead car in the bunch suddenly slowed down considerably to like 35. hell it could have been 30.....
It wasn't accident or anything to gawk at and it there was no construction , it was just an ordinary state trooper on a routine traffic stop, with a car pulled over, and him sitting in his patrol car behind, probably, writing up the ticket, etc....Both were completely on the shoulder and not over the line..
I know there is moderate slowdown in general especially when several cars are wanting to move over and, well, because its the Police,( Don't want to draw attention to yourself..right!...even though its quite apparent he is already pre-occupied with someone else and is unlikely to realize that you were just speeding a moment ago, or you have your phone in hand, or not wearing your seatbelt .etc etc..)
In my 2 instances we were already moved over well enough in advance and no other vehicles were present that needed to move over... but the lead car or one of them ahead of me felt the need to go 35 mph as we passed the flashing lights...
~~~ So do you have to slow down if moved over or can you still do the speed limit? Also if you cant move over, how much are you expected to slow down...If speed limit is 65. is 55 okay? 50? 40? How much are you expected to slow down?
( I generally slow down a little bit even if no other vehicles are close by, anyway ....but only a little generally a 5-10 mph reduction. More so if I can't move over...)
Just wondering if the vehicle that moved over was in the right to slow down as much as they did....They didnt like slam on the brakes but it was certainly a rapid decel....
Question about ~Move over for Flashing lights Law~
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Damaged_Goods, May 23, 2017.
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