On Interstate 75

Perry, GeorgiaDec 20, 20130 Comments

This is a traffic trap that is being used even when drivers aren’t speeding. Sheriffs cars pull off to the right hand side of the road and turn on their flashing lights. Then, if a car traveling in the right hand lane passes the sheriff’s car, the driver is pursued, stopped, and ticketed for not moving to the middle lane "when emergency lights are flashing." This happened to us recently, and we saw it happening again and again to other drivers on Interstate 75 in and near Houston County, Georgia during the second week of December, 2013. There was never any emergency that we saw–only the Sheriff’s car pulled over by itself, waiting to spring the trap. The Sheriff’s deputies appeared to be using the manuever to raise revenue from unsuspecting drivers who either didn’t know that Georgia has a law requring drivers to change lanes when they encounter flashing "emergency" lights, or who couldn’t safely change lanes quickly enough because of heavy traffic in the lane to their left.

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