Posted on 05/07/2008 2:01:31 PM PDT by Sopater
ELLICOTT CITY, Md. — The Howard County State's Attorney's Office says a driver who struck and killed a county police officer last year has paid her traffic fines.
Prosecutors say Stephanie Grissom of Columbia paid $310 in fines for speeding and negligent driving. She also received three points on her driving record.
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I have to admit that this is not a particulary smart way of stopping speeding vehicles. There is blame enough to go around in this case.
Whether or not the roadway in question should have a higher posted speed limit does not detract from the facts in this case. As I posted to another person on this thread, there is enough blame to go around in this case. The woman should not have been exceeding the speed limit (whether you agree with that limit or not). The officer should not have stepped in front of a car in the manner in which he did. The people who came up with this speed enforcement tactic also share in the blame (and from a civil standpoint may have the greatest culpability - but that is for a civil jury to decide). As for people who regularly exceed the posted speed limits, just be aware that you might be held accountable if something of this nature happens to you (unless you luck out and get a grand jury like the one in this case - which I would not count on).
“I have a rubber ball in my yard just waiting for those drivers.”
And I hope you will be prepared to pay for whatever accident you might cause.
stupid.
Hey, if my granddaughter is playing in the front yard with that ball and it rolls into the street and a speeder just happens to be driving by at that time and has to hit their brakes? Nothing I can do about that, now is there?
you’d make no attempt to avoid anything that steps in front of your car?
On the very rare occasion that I’m pulled over by a LEO, I will either have my wallet out and at the ready before he gets to my vehicle, or I will await his direction to reach for my wallet. It’s the people who make a sudden move and/or are acting nervous that raises the suspicions of the officer, who might then respond in the manner in which you refer.
“Whether or not the roadway in question should have a higher posted speed limit does not detract from the facts in this case.”
Yes, the facts of this case are: 1.) that the speed limit was set arbitrarily low for the location 2.) which made driving that stretch of road inherently more dangerous, as some drivers will try to obey the posted speed limit while other drivers will tend to drift toward the natural speed limit, causing the DIFFERENTIALS in driving speed that are truly the greatest cause of accidents on high-speed roadways, and 3.) the state of Maryland, in its insatiable greed, sent a poor state trooper out to stand in front of automobiles hurtling down the road at highway speeds 4.) which caused this poor woman to hit the poor state trooper, and 5.) all of which was apparent to a Maryland grand jury 6.) who refused to indict this woman on trumped up charges of exceeding an arbitrarily and dangerously low speed limit by 16 mph.
sitetest
no, he was just being an idiot. the instance he was referring to was the diallo shooting some years ago in new york city. it had nothing to do with getting pulled over in a car. it was just a bad situation that got worse. but the officers were found not guilty for a reason. they weren’t.
what kind of neighborhood do you live in? south detroit?
A vehicle code violation is not a crime. The officer died because he participated in a very stupid action of stepping in front of a moving vehicle.
His surviving family members have a great civil claim against the government agency that employed him. It's a slam dunk.
“Nothing I can do about that, now is there?”
That works if you get away with it, but if you cause an accident I doubt that you’d get much sympathy.
Had the women been driving slower, the cop may still have been run over...
Had the cop not been standing in the road, he would NOT have been run over...
Where’d this happen, Mayberry???
God bless you for saying that.
Negligent acts, yes. Intentional acts, yes. Acts of God, yes.
Accidents, no.
Yes. The title is horribly wrong.
I said if someone jumps out in front of me waving their arms like this idiot cop, not just anyone in the road.
your subsequent post: "I said if someone jumps out in front of me waving their arms like this idiot cop, not just anyone in the road."
hmmm, i must have missed that part of your original post. no matter, i get it...now.
Increasing speed from 25 to 40 nearly doubles the distance need to stop from 85 ft to 164 feet.
Increasing speed from 55 to 70 only increases the distance need to stop 46% instead of 93%, from 265 ft to 388 feet.
http://www.csgnetwork.com/stopdistinfo.html
Thank you.
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