I was driving down a relatively country road today, but it is narrow and there are residences among small fields of mostly cotton crops. A sheriff deputy came up behind me with lights and siren activated, so I pulled over onto what little shoulder I had to get out of the way on. When he passed me, he was really moving fast.
I understood it to be a rule in this area that a police officer with lights and siren activated could only travel a maximum of 10 mph over the posted speed limit, which on this stretch is 40 mph. Judging from my experience with being out of the car on the freeway changing a tire with cars going past me at 75 - 80 mph, that's about how fast I judged this guy to be going.
Is there a maximum speed they can travel, and if so, is there a penalty if they get caught exceeding it? I mean, whatever he was headed to was not a big enough emergency to either get himself or me killed on the way, was it?
2007-09-02
15:30:46
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