Stopped by the Marine Patrol - Advice Needed

thinkxingu · 09-02-2024, 07:41 AM

This problem is really everywhere vehicles exist these days. My town's speed limit is 30, but doing any less than 40 will get you tailgated and/or aggressively passed.

I just approach it the same everywhere: avoid it when possible—for example, pulling into the middle or slow lane on the highway or, as someone above mentioned, going around the Graveyard—or be proactively defensive when I can't.

Your example of the Graveyard is a good one because, even when people do slow down, they almost always choose a speed that causes the biggest wake...which makes everything worse.

Fortunately for us, we're usually early or late enough to be the only people through the Graveyard. When not, we go around.

Finally, there's the rules and then there's common sense. In almost 100% of the times I've been in the same situation you were pulled over for—accelerating in different directions—I'd have done exactly what you did. Getting pulled over for that is really a little overboard...unless MP was in a position (close enough, say) that they couldn't avoid addressing it. Otherwise, I'm confident there are other infractions they could've focused on.

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09-02-2024, 07:41 AM	#30
thinkxingu Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2014 Posts: 6,438 Thanks: 1,182 Thanked 2,140 Times in 1,327 Posts	This problem is really everywhere vehicles exist these days. My town's speed limit is 30, but doing any less than 40 will get you tailgated and/or aggressively passed. I just approach it the same everywhere: avoid it when possible—for example, pulling into the middle or slow lane on the highway or, as someone above mentioned, going around the Graveyard—or be proactively defensive when I can't. Your example of the Graveyard is a good one because, even when people do slow down, they almost always choose a speed that causes the biggest wake...which makes everything worse. Fortunately for us, we're usually early or late enough to be the only people through the Graveyard. When not, we go around. Finally, there's the rules and then there's common sense. In almost 100% of the times I've been in the same situation you were pulled over for—accelerating in different directions—I'd have done exactly what you did. Getting pulled over for that is really a little overboard...unless MP was in a position (close enough, say) that they couldn't avoid addressing it. Otherwise, I'm confident there are other infractions they could've focused on. Sent from my SM-S911U using Tapatalk