# NYS Trooper Down

**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nys-trooper-down/248119
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**Created:** [November 4, 2009, 6:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nys-trooper-down/248119 "2009-11-04T18:14:23Z")
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### Author: ![KrazyKid](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/krazykid/32/6371_2.png) [@KrazyKid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/KrazyKid)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2009, 8:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nys-trooper-down/248119/131 "2009-11-06T08:49:34Z")

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> [@wrecked veyron](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/wrecked-veyron/25444/18):
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> agreed, and what if the other person was killed as a result? they would have been taken out due to lack of good judgment on the officers part. this goes for any authority figure.
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> they enforce the law of “imprudent speed.” they can ticket you if they think your accident was a result of going too fast, witnesses or evidence aren’t even a necessity to hand you a citation. happened to me about 8-9 years ago. my car was wrecked on a back road late at night, an no one saw what happened. it WAS NOT a result from excessive speed either. still, i left the scene with ticket in hand. not saying the officer who clipped the other motorist was or wasn’t at fault, but law enforcement officers really need to start setting a better example, and practice what they preach.

Very true. When I wiped out on my bike and hit the tree a few months back I was handed, Imprudent speed & failure to stay right. The turn was completely covered in gravel and no way would a bike lean a turn and make it. The lady cop that was on scene talking to me while I was still on the ground even said there was nothing I could have done. At the time she didnt want to ticket me. And even the witness driving behind me said I was doing no more than 45 in the 40mph road i was one and I was riding respectfully. The cop was chewed out by her superior for not ticketing a you kid that wrecked a bike, a week later I got tickets.

did you know you could get imprudent speed for doing 55mph in a 55mph zone in the snow? Got pulled over last year for it on rt5. I was in the jetta and it snowed 3-4 inches maybe… I was blowing by tards in 4x4 trucks and suvs doing like 30 topps. cop didnt have his radar on heading the other way but since I passed a car in snowy roads at 20+ mph difference, it looked like I was flying. I told them you can prove my speed, and it is apparent that I can controll my car while I was traveling. i got a warning.

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