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).
“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.
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