Rubberneckers should get tickets

[DainBramaged]

:grr:

People slow down to look when a cop pulls someone over for a traffic violation, people come to a dead stop to look at the scene of an accident. People need to get their heads out of their asses, especially in bad weather.

[hedgehog]

1. Sometimes it's not rubbernecking. If you see a bunch of flashing lights up ahead,

you should slow down lest you plow into an accident scene spread across the road. Even if it's someone pulled over for a ticket, there may be people walking in the edge of the driving lane.

[TheWraith]

13. Exactly. I've done the same thing, just yesterday.

Somebody had been pulled over on the side of main street, going the other direction, so I slowed down and edged over to make sure there was room for traffic.

[jobycom]

2. Much better for them to speed through accident scenes and past cops, law be damned.

In parts of Texas, at least, it's a crime NOT to slow down when passing a cop who has pulled someone over, unless you can switch lanes. Too many officers are killed by idiot drivers speeding past traffic stops, and a shockingly high number of accident fatalities occur after a minor accident, when a car plows into victims milling around the original accident scene. That's why people slow down--to make sure the situation is safe for them to proceed.

Leave home earlier. Save a life. Maybe your own.

[DainBramaged]

3. Right, you have a clue about NJ traffic

[jobycom]

7. Sorry, I missed the part where you said "This only applies to New Jersey traffic."

I stand corrected, since we all know that people in New Jersey are completely different than human beings in other places.

[DainBramaged]

9. Right...........

Lecture someone else, at least we don't have any Bushes here.

[jobycom]

11. I ain't lecturing, I'm telling.

:P

Peace, just bantering. But I had some cop friends who had a friend of theirs killed by a driver not slowing down for an accident scene. It is a genuine problem, in New Jersey or Austin.

[JerseygirlCT]

18. No, that's not always why people slow down

At least once this week, I was caught in miles and miles of traffic - for an accident that was being taken care of - on the other side of the highway. People were just rubbernecking, instead of focusing on the road in front of them.

Another time, there was a car, safely pulled onto the shoulder. Maybe making a phone call. Again... in the bad weather, all sorts of nosy people just needed to slow down to a near stop to check it all out. (Not to pull over and see if help was needed, either - just looking).

The traffic jams they cause are very dangerous, especially in bad weather.

[soothsayer]

4. slow down, lead foot! and get that road rage under control

[DainBramaged]

10. Road rage my ass

[rateyes]

5. Which means that a cop would have to pull them over, and thus

create more traffic hazards.

[NNN0LHI]

6. We have had traffic backed up for miles here by people slowing down to look at piles of garbage

I am not kidding.

Don

[DainBramaged]

8. Beer truck this summer on RT 80 cops guarding it, traffic slows to a halt

People stopping and taking pictures with their cell phones. Assholes.

[hedgehog]

14. Slowing down to avoid adding to the accident is ok, stopping to take

pictures with a cell phone is not.

[Romulox]

12. Cars on the southbound Southfield freeway were rubbernecking at an accident on the northbound lanes

Monday night. Traffic came to a complete halt in the Southbound lanes, despite the fact that the accident was on the other side of a divided highway... :eyes:

[Regret My New Name]

15. I usually get out and ask if I can help...

write the ticket and turn on the siren...

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Reaching for the hat as a medic...

I'd rather have people SLOW DOWN, even stop... than hit me, my partner, or my rig... or my patiens, but that's just me

That said, there are situations where not only are you right, but people are issued tickets

Oh the people stopping to take pictures, UNLESS they are press. In that case we have OTHER issues to be concerned with, such as preserving my patient's privacy.

[JerseygirlCT]

17. Oh yes!

I can't tell you how many manufactured traffic jams I've been stuck in this week... only to find out it all dissolved after passing a car, safely pulled over on the side - probably making a phone call or something! Miles and miles of sitting still - just because some people can't focus on their driving and have to stop in the middle of the highway to sightsee!