Well, guess what?

[cmspaz]

I got a ticket in the Evo already!

And no, it's not what you're thinking. I received a wonderful citation at 12:30 tonight for "Failure to yield for an emergency vehicle". AKA, I didn't move over a full lane width while a cop was extracting free money for the state from some other poor sap on the side of the road.

The cop had the guy pulled over a few (~50) feet before a cloverleaf, and I needed to take the cloverleaf. I thought about moving over a lane, but decided against it due to needing to merge two lanes back over to make my exit, so I moved over in my lane to give him space and shaved off some speed to 10 below the limit. And apparently being somewhat courteous doesn't fly anymore, wanting to be safe instead of flying across two lanes to make an exit doesn't cut it, no, I genuinely put that officer's life in danger doing 40mph 6 feet away from him. Sure, traffic wasn't heavy, sure, I could have made it over and back. But I feel like I made the best and safest decision given the situation.

And that's all fine and good, however you feel about it, but the big deal for me is the points. Anyone ever fought one of these? Will it work the same as a speeding ticket or should I expect to have a little more difficulty than just talking the DA into letting me pay the fine to drop it?

Also, not that it matters because he got my plate right, but my car's down as a Subaru Impreza. Stupid fucker.

[Kracka]

Fight it. If they're going to attempt to waste your time and money you might as well give them the same courtesy.

[Andrew7dg]

Hey, the officer felt his life was in danger and pulled you over for it. There had to be a good reason. I think getting out on the road to talk to the driver has to be dangerous.

I don't think you can fight this one. Nor do I think you should...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh6wgvbaT9Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKs-9geRZ70

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwqgzwOF_5Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0hlD8PD1nc&feature=related

[Kracka]

Sounds more like an officer on a power trip than an officer who feared for his life to me. You moved over and gave him room; this acknowledges you see him and are being careful.

[Nartanian]

Dude fight it. I had a situation where an officer pulled me over for failure to obeying a traffic control device (AKA I ran a stop sign) and then he charged me for cutting off someone driving and putting their life in danger. I was in my grey Galant at the time and he said I had a blue Galant. I didn't argue or do anything when I got the citation, but I knew I didn't do either of them. I took it to court. He showed up too. They offered me to pay less of the citation price so that they didn't have to have trail, but I refused the offer. Then the Court made both of us show each other what evidence we planned to use. He had a full video of my incident. After showing it and narrating it to the Judge about 4 times, the judge saw I came to a complete stop. Cutting of the person at the intersection wasn't my fault because I had already pulled out from the stop sign and it was raining so it was hard to see. Also the other driver had a good amount of distance to see me and only had to slow down, not slam their brakes. I decided to pull through instead of hit the brakes in the middle of the intersection which was the safest solution at the time. So the Judge dropped the charges and said I was free to go.

[C3L1CA]

I got a ticket in the Evo already!

And no, it's not what you're thinking. I received a wonderful citation at 12:30 tonight for "Failure to yield for an emergency vehicle". AKA, I didn't move over a full lane width while a cop was extracting free money for the state from some other poor sap on the side of the road.

The cop had the guy pulled over a few (~50) feet before a cloverleaf, and I needed to take the cloverleaf. I thought about moving over a lane, but decided against it due to needing to merge two lanes back over to make my exit, so I moved over in my lane to give him space and shaved off some speed to 10 below the limit. And apparently being somewhat courteous doesn't fly anymore, wanting to be safe instead of flying across two lanes to make an exit doesn't cut it, no, I genuinely put that officer's life in danger doing 40mph 6 feet away from him. Sure, traffic wasn't heavy, sure, I could have made it over and back. But I feel like I made the best and safest decision given the situation.

And that's all fine and good, however you feel about it, but the big deal for me is the points. Anyone ever fought one of these? Will it work the same as a speeding ticket or should I expect to have a little more difficulty than just talking the DA into letting me pay the fine to drop it?

Also, not that it matters because he got my plate right, but my car's down as a Subaru Impreza. Stupid fucker.

I don't understand why you didn't move over, it sounds like you could have moved over and made it back to make your exit in time. Next time move over and you wont have a problem.

[polishmafia]

Also, not that it matters because he got my plate right, but my car's down as a Subaru Impreza. Stupid fucker.

Owned. LOL!

[rose0529]

not that i agree either way with the ticket ... but why wasnt he on the passenger side? All the times ive been pulled over the cop has come to the passenger window.

[Cammaxon]

Hey, the officer felt his life was in danger and pulled you over for it. There had to be a good reason. I think getting out on the road to talk to the driver has to be dangerous.

I don't think you can fight this one. Nor do I think you should...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh6wgvbaT9Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKs-9geRZ70

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwqgzwOF_5Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0hlD8PD1nc&feature=related

Watch the cop on the very last video, he gets hit, flys through the air, it appears he gets his head ran over
THEN the BAMF gets up, like a f'in champ, and runs off the road. Thats no cop, thats a T1000!

It is dangerous for officers getting out on the road, but from the initial thread the circumstance is a little different than some one who just doesn't care about moving over.

I went through a pink light once in my blue subaru STI, the cop wrote black chevy silverado for the make sooo idk? he had the right plate. either way it got dropped because of that. I said the cop wasn't paying attention to the vehicle so maybe he wasn't paying attention to the light being yellow or red when i crossed the intersection and it got dropped allll togeather.

Just go talk to the prosecutor, maybe even before your court date to establish a relationship, explain the situation and see what they can do.

[tpunx99GSX]

I don't understand why you didn't move over, it sounds like you could have moved over and made it back to make your exit in time. Next time move over and you wont have a problem.

Probably because it would have looked like he was a drunk driver swerving, then the cop would have pulled him over for reckless driving.

Fight it. chances are you will get out of it completely when you explain what steps you took to ensure the cop had room.