Driving below or above the limit ticketable in SC

[Belmont31R]

How are you supposed to drive if no matter what speed you are going you can be cited? Other cars going above the limit...impeding traffic. Go with the flow, and get a ticket for speeding.

Officer Jonathan Montjoy did not see it that way. He noted that most traffic was cruising at between 70 and 75 MPH, so anyone driving the speed limit would be guilty of impeding traffic. At trial, the judge found that state law prohibits impeding traffic, no matter what the speed limit might be, so the traffic stop was ruled valid.

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/36/3614.asp

[RD62]

How are you supposed to drive if no matter what speed you are going you can be cited? Other cars going above the limit...impeding traffic. Go with the flow, and get a ticket for speeding.






http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/36/3614.asp

As someone who has lived here his entire life (except for college) and works driving approx 40k miles a year around the state, I didn't think you could get pulled for speeding in this state unless you are doing in excess of 100mph backwards while going the wrong direction on the interstate with your car on fire and shooting out the window.

I tend to roll between 5 and 10mph over the posted limit and routinely am passed by vehicles doing well over 20mph over the limit and often in "urban" areas (such as they are here) where the density of LE is greater.

Sure you can get snagged on secondary roads in some small town speed trap. Otherwise if you get pulled on the interstate you were either on I-95 and caught in some kind of interdiction operation or were REALLY ROLLIN. Or going backwards the wrong way like I said before...

[CarlosDJackal]

Could this be applicable when you are driving on the fast lane?

[skyugo]

Could this be applicable when you are driving on the fast lane?

lord i wish they'd enforce that in colorado...
idiots here just drive side by side at 65 in a 75 zone.

[MistWolf]

lord i wish they'd enforce that in colorado...
idiots here just drive side by side at 65 in a 75 zone.

Are you sure they aren't from Washington??

[Palmguy]

As someone who has lived here his entire life (except for college) and works driving approx 40k miles a year around the state, I didn't think you could get pulled for speeding in this state unless you are doing in excess of 100mph backwards while going the wrong direction on the interstate with your car on fire and shooting out the window.

I tend to roll between 5 and 10mph over the posted limit and routinely am passed by vehicles doing well over 20mph over the limit and often in "urban" areas (such as they are here) where the density of LE is greater.

Sure you can get snagged on secondary roads in some small town speed trap. Otherwise if you get pulled on the interstate you were either on I-95 and caught in some kind of interdiction operation or were REALLY ROLLIN. Or going backwards the wrong way like I said before...

Interesting...I'm always on edge driving through SC (and Georgia with the exception of Atlanta for that matter) and keep it to 5mph over at the most. Not sure why I've had that paranoia about SC...

[Scoby]

Never knew this was on the books. I haven't been pulled in 20 yrs and get on it mostly.

What drives me crazy are the people blocking the left passing lane. This would be impeding but I've never heard of anyone ever getting ticketed for it.

[Belmont31R]

Never knew this was on the books. I haven't been pulled in 20 yrs and get on it mostly.

What drives me crazy are the people blocking the left passing lane. This would be impeding but I've never heard of anyone ever getting ticketed for it.

Im not against impeding traffic laws or using the left most lane for passing but it seems absurd to say we can cite you for impeding traffic just because you're going slower than the pace (regardless of the speed of the pace) yet if you speed (going the pace) we can cite you for speeding.



FWIW I once got a ticket when I was 18 or so for passing a douche going 35 in a 55 through a mountain area. One lane on each side, and I was right behind this guy. I had at least 6 cars behind me stacked up. We got to a flat area with an L shaped curve. I passed this guy after being stuck for miles behind him going 20MPH below the limit. Where I passed was flat, and I had perfect visibility but because of the turn it was double yellow. Instead of citing the douche going almost half the limit I got cited for passing in the double yellow. I really do hate people who hog the left lane or don't pull over to let others pass on single lane roads but in this case the guy was pulled over with a 3 lane road and he was in the middle lane.

[skyugo]

Are you sure they aren't from Washington??

I'm pretty sure they're from texas and california.

[JSantoro]

Interesting...I'm always on edge driving through SC (and Georgia with the exception of Atlanta for that matter) and keep it to 5mph over at the most. Not sure why I've had that paranoia about SC...

Because you're smart enough to know that the Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane/speed-trap scenario isn't just a stereotype!

...and before anybody feels the compulsive need to stick up for their subculture, it's not a scenario limited to the American South. Put the torches away....

Ticket for impeding, regardless of over/under? Kinda jacked, given that a published number like a speed limit is the standard to be met, else it's not to be met at all. But I get it, for folks that do that in the left lanes in particular.

Balance: simultaneously ticketing the assholes tailgating the folks impeding. Desires to indulge your inner Leadfoot MacGee because you are under the mistaken impression that your destination is something you have to catch up to is not an excuse to ride bumpers.

Double penalties for all the methed-out truckers who do the same while driving a rig weighing however many tens of thousands of pounds.

Agressive drivers: triple the penalty if you get nailed for this and you have a handicap parking permit. Whatever limitation it is that gets you that parking space close to the door, odds are that it compromises your reaction times.

Quadruple, if you're sporting a Jesus-fish. That whole "do unto others as you would have them" thing = supposed to know better. Can't say that they haven't been briefed!

There's a lot of stuff that'd be more sensible overall if they'd just enforce the stuff on the books and by the standard, and stop trying to subcategorize.