Question: On Friday afternoon I was travelling from Houston to Austin, The skies were clear, the weather was sunny and the traffic was quite low, (ideal conditions for speeding), It was a 55 mph highway, About 5 cars (me included) were making a constant 85 mph, The first one was a chevy cavalier with a woman in her early 30’s and her kid, second was a mitsubishi mirage (two afro americans), third was a ford bronco (a couple and their well bred big dog), fourth was a mazda protege with me in it and, fifth was a honda prelude. Just then I saw flashing lights behind me but fortunately the cops didn’t get me. It was the mitsubishi mirage they stopped. In such a situation how do the police judge, Maybe it would have been a good idea to ticket all the five cars.
Any comments?

Answer: I was involved in a similar scenario two years ago in Western New York. There were three vehicles going about **mph , The first was an Isuzu Trooper, than a Mustang 5.0, followed by my car(T-Bird Turbo). We were travelling closely when over the hill came a NYS Trooper. We all immediately braked to about 75mph by the time he clocked us. We slowed down further and put some distance between our vehicles while the Trooper turned around in the median to pursue. He went right by my car and the Mustang, pulling over the first Isuzu. He then parked his cruiser partway into the right lane(behind the Isuzu) and waved the two other cars over. I suppose it would have been difficult to catch and ticket all of us had we not pulled over, but I didn’t want to take the chance. All three of us received tickets. Strangely, my citation was for two more mph than the driver of the Mustang got. I went to court and tried to fight the ticket on the grounds that the officer could not have locked in a different speed for each vehicle(we were too close) while verifying his vehicle’s speed with that of the radar unit’s, all while safely operating his vehicle. A similar thing happened to me about 4 years back, driving east on I-88 outside of Chicago. Comming home for Thanksgiving, me and a friend. I was in a Black ‘82 RX-7 and in front of me a newer Mustang GT. We were moving at a speedy pace, about 85-90, in a 55. I saw a state trooper approaching me from behind, so I downshifted and coasted down to about 65, which the majority of traffic was cruising at. The GT must not have seen the cop, since he kept flying. The cop turned his lights on me, and came up beside me and over the PA told me to follow him until he pulled over. I did, seing he knew my license plate number by now, RICS RX7 is easy to remember, and he pursued the GT and then pulled over. I pulled in behind him and he said he knew I was going over 70, but only had me timed at 70, so I should feel lucky for only getting a 15 over ticket. He gave us both ticks and I got supervision.
I guess the moral is that they can pull over as many as they want, if travelling in packs.

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