My question involves a traffic ticket from the state of: Illinois
I have court next week to defend a Following Too Closely ticket and was hoping to get some help in doing so.
A couple months ago, I was going from Chicago to Wisconsin to visit my girlfriend's family. She was driving in front of me in her car and I was following her because she knew the way. We hit traffic shortly after getting onto the highway because the left lane was being closed up ahead. I was following her in the second to left lane in bumper-to-bumper, stop and go traffic. A cab drove up the left lane trying to get ahead of everyone, and decided to try and pull in in front of me right before the lane closed. I stayed close enough behind my girlfriend so that he could not get in because 1) I didn't want to lose her because she had the directions and 2) because I didn't want to let someone in that had just cut everyone.
So I stay close behind my girlfriend's car and the cab starts honking. I stay behind my girlfriend, close enough to not allow the cab in, when a police siren goes off behind me. He pulls me over, approaches me with his hand on his gun (?) and asks for license and registration. He takes a while, I lose my girlfriend in the traffic, and comes back to me asking me to sign and accept the ticket without even explaining it. When I ask, he tells me I was "following too closely". I tried to explain the situation, and he says nothing but sign the ticket.
From my understanding of the law, this doesn't seem like an appropriate use. If anything, he should have pulled the cab over for almost causing an accident by forcing himself in. And I wasn't tailgating the person in front of me, I was following her for a reason. It might be worth mentioning that I have a Massachusetts license plate, so maybe he was looking for an easy, out of state ticket?
Anyway, please let me know if I have a decent case for myself and how I can defend it.
Thank you
I have court next week to defend a Following Too Closely ticket and was hoping to get some help in doing so.
A couple months ago, I was going from Chicago to Wisconsin to visit my girlfriend's family. She was driving in front of me in her car and I was following her because she knew the way. We hit traffic shortly after getting onto the highway because the left lane was being closed up ahead. I was following her in the second to left lane in bumper-to-bumper, stop and go traffic. A cab drove up the left lane trying to get ahead of everyone, and decided to try and pull in in front of me right before the lane closed. I stayed close enough behind my girlfriend so that he could not get in because 1) I didn't want to lose her because she had the directions and 2) because I didn't want to let someone in that had just cut everyone.
So I stay close behind my girlfriend's car and the cab starts honking. I stay behind my girlfriend, close enough to not allow the cab in, when a police siren goes off behind me. He pulls me over, approaches me with his hand on his gun (?) and asks for license and registration. He takes a while, I lose my girlfriend in the traffic, and comes back to me asking me to sign and accept the ticket without even explaining it. When I ask, he tells me I was "following too closely". I tried to explain the situation, and he says nothing but sign the ticket.
From my understanding of the law, this doesn't seem like an appropriate use. If anything, he should have pulled the cab over for almost causing an accident by forcing himself in. And I wasn't tailgating the person in front of me, I was following her for a reason. It might be worth mentioning that I have a Massachusetts license plate, so maybe he was looking for an easy, out of state ticket?
Anyway, please let me know if I have a decent case for myself and how I can defend it.
Thank you
Following Too Closely: Defending a "Following Too Closely" Violation in Illinois
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