Just happened to be driving in my patrol car behind a Mango Daytona in Atlanta yesterday with the personalized (alabama) tag 'Finatic'. If you're on here consider it a verbal warning for 2 lane changes without signalling :lol:
Sorry guys. There are a lot of drivers here in AL that do not use their turn signals. Happens all the time! These people just don't believe in signalling around here and the cops rarely do anything about it. IcanDrive you should have written him up!!! If I was LEO I would have lit him up and ticketed.
Down here in Florida, I don't think you have to signal a lane change unless you are exiting the road you are on OR it affects another vehicle in your immediate area. It was an when a LEO Crpl. or Lt. was pulled over in Miami on a lane change violation and everything went to he*^ in a handbasket. He was arrested and screamed profiling, but the end result was that the state law interpretation during the court proceeding (I think it is still this way) was that you don't have to use blinkers unless exiting the roadway from which you are traveling OR it affects another vehicle. So if you have no vehicle to the side of which you are merging into, you don't have to signal. Here's the Florida Statute:
316.155 When signal required.--
(1) No person may turn a vehicle from a direct course or move right or left upon a highway unless and until such movement can be made with reasonable safety, and then only after giving an appropriate signal in the manner hereinafter provided, in the event any other vehicle may be affected by the movement.
There are a lot more accidents down here because everyone mis-interpreted the case and thought they never have to use it unless exiting the roadway, but at the same time it is a little bit more security for my job. Oh well. Keep up the good work to all the LEO's out there! You do a heck of a job ... I don't think I could do it ... thats why I became a hose dragger and flight medic!
I signal anytime I am turning or making a lane change. I want to give all other drivers plenty of opportunity to see me while alerting them of my intentions. And yes hats off to our nations finest and bravest.
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