When The PoPo are Never Wrong

I don't think you are supposed to pass a law enforcement with lights on should've been watching the cop he didn't react to it until after the impact.

 

Lights and siren in any emergency vehicles only requests right of way.

 

The race discussion and police again..guess all those tickets I got on my motorcycle while I was a white teenager was DWWT. Driving While White Tenneager..get over it!

 

But don’t confuse right of way and the move over law.

 

How long did it take the driver to get stopped after being struck. Less than 3 seconds ((time it yourself) so how fast was he going? Another way is to compute his speed using time and distance between the broken lines. Driver had already slowed down.

 

Second mouse gets a cheese. Or in this case the 3rd mouse gets a cheese because the first one pulled over on the right and this truck driver was second in the pack. Seriously though, it is hard to tell from this little clip if the truck driver is not at fault. Need the footage from trooper’s vehicle as well. If this was going on for 2 miles then the ticket might be justified. I’ve seen cops do this in 2 lane highways. Never seen them do itin 6 lanes with one car. I guess they needed two more patrol cars there to do this safely.

 

Many state police/hwy patrols have adopted procedures that generally prohibit rolling roadblocks intended to slow traffic. They are generally a bad idea, especially in the manner this trooper was performing it. I agree that additional footage would be helpful, but the footage shown indicates the trooper hit a vehicle that was going well slower than the speed limit and it appears the TT was traveling at less than 1/2 hwy speed. Additionally it may well indicate the trooper didn’t see the TT but It boils down to who hit who. The driver did nothing to hit the trooper, and in fact did not hit the trooper, the trooper’s actions (Which some would say appear to indicate reckless driving) regardless of his intent caused him to hit the TT. Once the trooper left the traveled portion of the highway, the highway became open and no reasonable person would believe he was going to re-enter at the angle he did.

 

I've gone back and reviewed the video several times. It would be good to see the entire thing, rather than the last 20 seconds. Other forum members indicated the rolling road block had been going on for at least a minute. If that is the case it begs the question, why is a professional truck driver crowding forward into a rolling road block?

I have been behind many RRB's. The behavior of the general public is often to crowd forward. It is the responsibility of professional drivers to set an example. If I hang back and put on my four ways until other drivers take the hint what they should do, then that road block can proceed safely. If other "professional" drivers crowd forward, jockeying for position to "win" and be first after the road block ends, then 4 wheelers follow suit and create the dangerous situation we see in the video.

As the police officer was dealing with the road block scofflaw in the right exit lane, the correct thing to do was hang back and pace the road block, NOT to overtake the road block. That truck driver is at fault.

 

I would have; it was obvious what the trooper was doing.

Although, to be honest, I have often been accused of being unreasonable.