[Vision2020] ISP emphasis patrol this weekend

[Paul Rumelhart]

Sunil,

Yeah, you're right that it's smarter to pull over.  It just irks me that 
I have worry about these maniacs out there on the road.  I just can't 
help thinking about the forces involved and what even a smallish car can 
do to you at supposedly "safe" highway speeds.  It probably comes from 
riding motorcycles for years, I guess.  You're unarmored, and you're 
apparently invisible to anyone in a car.  Though this would never work 
for insurance purposes, I wish that people would learn what it's like to 
get in a wreck at even slow speeds when they take driver's ed.  Maybe 
they'd treat it less like a video game and more like the potentially 
deadly activity that it really is.

Anyway, I'm glad they are trying to curb some of these behaviors.

Paul

Sunil Ramalingam wrote:

>Paul,
>
>I don't know if they'll give you a ticket or not, but I think it makes sense 
>to pull over.  Why take the chance that one of the people behind you will 
>pass when he or she shouldn't, and cause a wreck?  Let the others get out in 
>front of you and you won't have to worry about them on your tail.  I'm 
>always glad when an angry tailgater is out of my life.
>
>My own peeves are the driver who drives slowly slowly until he gets to a 
>passing lane, then speeds up as I try to pass, and his good friend who 
>drives in the left lane of the passing lane when he's not passing anyone.  
>Often that driver prevents someone heading in the other direction from 
>safely and legally passing cars (heading North down Reisenauer or towards 
>Genesee.)
>
>Sunil
>
>
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>>From: Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com>
>>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] ISP emphasis patrol this weekend
>>Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:12:42 -0700
>>
>>I've always wondered; if I'm going the speed limit and more than three cars 
>>behind me want to drive illegally fast and I'm slowing them down will I get 
>>a ticket for not pulling over?  I'm one of those weirdos that goes the 
>>speed limit and not +5 or +10 mph over.
>>
>>Paul
>>
>>Mark Solomon wrote:
>>
>>>From Betsy Russell of the Spokesman Review's blog 
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>>>http://www.spokesmanreview.com/blogs/boise/
>>>Watch your driving this weekend (and other times as well...)
>>>
>>>Mark
>>>
>>>*******
>>>They're targeting mountain highways
>>>Driving to the mountains this weekend? ISP wants you to watch out. They're 
>>>targeting failure to pull over and improper passing on mountain highways, 
>>>and will keep it up for the next several weeks. They're reminding 
>>>motorists that Idaho law requires that on two-lane highways outside urban 
>>>areas, a vehicle going slower than the normal speed of traffic and holding 
>>>up three other motorists must pull off at the next safe turnout to let 
>>>folks pass. They're also going after improper passing, in no-passing zones 
>>>and when it's not safe. "Our troopers will be working the mountain 
>>>highways over the next several weeks with a particular focus on making 
>>>sure motorists pull over when they need to, and others don't pass when 
>>>they shouldn't," said ISP Region 3 Commander Capt. Steve Richardson.
>>>
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