The problem is that nearly all the fatalities of police occur when traffic is really heavy and there isn't a lane to pull into.

In the case of the troopers in Tennessee, there was a shoulder wider than one lane, and all three of the cars were pulled off of that, so the dude was 40 feet from me. I observed that after car no. 1 pulled me over, car no.2 pulled in behind him, so apparently they were trying to hit their quota (it was the 30th of the month) before the afternoon rush (it was about 10:30 and traffic was rather light.

It seems to me that if they wanted to convict someone for endangering a Smokey, they really should have been driving marked cars. An unmarked car, even with flashers, is not obviously a police car. Sometimes such vehicles follow doublewides.

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