While on the highway you have slow lanes and fast lanes.The speed limit is 60 .police officers issue tickets to speeders.I understand you can get a ticket going even just 5 miles over. Is the fast lane designed for those to break the law and go way over the speed limit ? to use the fast lane how fast is fast legally for you to be traveling in it legal? What speed are you requiered to do if you go in the fast lane? Say for one reason or another I had to be in the fast lane .Say while in the fast lane. One driver is doing 25 miles per hour over.I'm doing 10 miles per hour over .Theres an accident the 25 miles per hour drivers claimes i caused the accident because i was driving to slow. who's at fault? Also say what if i was doing the speed limit in the fast lane. If the speed limit is 60 how fast is fast with out breaking the law for you to travel in the fast lane?
2007-10-08 21:06:42 · 4 answers · asked by glenda w 4 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Commuting
It does not matter what lane your in. The speed limit is as fast as you can go. There is no four mph leeway.The speeder is always at fault. It would not matter if you were going the speed limit and they hit you. There still at fault. Plus I get the impression they were behind you. That also makes it there fault.
2007-10-08 21:41:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure what jurisdiction you are in, but where I live (UK) the purpose of the lanes is not do do with speed as such but with providing opportunities for overtaking. So, drivers wishing to travel faster can overtake those wishing to travel slower. It goes without saying that all drivers are bound by the speed limit, and anyone caught breaking it may be in trouble. However, if a driver is not overtaking, but is in the overtaking lane, he could be guilty of causing an obstruction, regardless of his speed, although if he is travelling at the speed limit that might mitigate. Other kinds of poor driving behaviour, such as erratic swerving between lanes or lack of signalling, could also be considered dangerous. In short, in your case it sounds as though the other driver is primarily to blame, for excessive speed, he certainly cannot say that you were travelling too slowly. But you also need to look to your defence, to establish that, other than breaking the speed limit yourself, your driving was not at fault.
2007-10-08 21:27:52 · answer #2 · answered by Sangmo 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is illegal to exceed the speed limit. The "fast" lane is for drivers at the speed limit, the "slow" lane is for drivers below the speed limit.
2007-10-08 21:16:04 · answer #3 · answered by Howard H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Slow lanes are designed for vehicles which might not be able to do the limit aka uhauls, big trucks or people who dont want to push it... It doesnt necesarily mean its a big difference.
The leway in the mph is becayse not every can keep their speed right on the limit at any given time and not everyone has or uses cruise control.
2007-10-08 21:15:35 · answer #4 · answered by Steven S 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋