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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: 55mph & common courtesy
Message-ID: <224@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Aug-83 09:59:56 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 25 09:59:56 1983
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	I sincerely doubt California law requires you to pull over if
	five people are following you at 10MPH above the speed limit.
California law says it is illegal to impede the flow of traffic.  This
law doesn't say anything about whether traffic is doing more or less
than the speed limit.  If traffic on the freeway is doing 70 and you're
only doing 65, and you're in the fast lane, a cop actually has a choice
of citing you for speeding or impeding traffic.  (This topic actually
came up in traffic school [the program they put you in to keep a traffic
ticket off your record] and this was the conclusion.)