Suicide by citizen!

But then, you keep blowing this up to be a big deal, and I just can't picture exactly how dangerous this was.

 

What I'm getting is a cop pulled over a car on a narrow left lane shoulder where a car has no business being.

I did Triple A roadside for several years and the places people will decide to stop and wait for help was mind blowing.

 

I understand they dint need help. In that situation you keep going till there is a safe place to stop. People panic

 

Yeah, just a bit slow at times.

 

Well its Nashville TN that's all a driver normally has to say , that place is filled with #########...

 

Picture this, and it's somewhat hypothetical, but you can imagine the realism involved: Barricaded, narrowed lanes with the weave signs posted prior to them. Bunch of ######## doing 60 in a 40 with a cop that grabbed someone for the 'fines doubled' parked just askance of all this... Boooooo!

True, sir.
If you get the reds and blues in the middle of nowhere - you don't have to stop until you get to town or at least a series of street lights (just throw on the 4-ways). There's no existing rule which says you have to a) pull over IMMEDIATELY when it's unsafe to do so or b) pull over in an area where you don't feel safe to do so (a desolate area, no witnesses; no lighting) - which implies it's okay to distrust the police - which I'm okay with, but you need to make clear you intend to stop at some point.

 

Had car go a couple miles and didn't see my lights or here my siren they were jamming and never looked in the rear view. A couple miles they look and jerk to the right up a small embankment and yes down the long other side. Luckily the only injury was to their feelings and the car.