Henry455
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mcpd2025 said:There was a huge news article a couple years ago about someone being cited for a similar offense in Maryland. The problem was that the officer in the center of that mess issued the wrong charging document. There is a specific statute that deals with blinking or constantly flashing lights, which is the improper charge that the officer used.
It is ILLEGAL in Maryland to display your high beams within a certain number of feet of an approaching vehicle, or with you are trailing within a certain number of feet of another vehicle. It is also illegal to display bright or dazzling lights on any motor vehicle. If you flash your high beams and there is another vehicle within those parameters, you are in violation of that specific section. Personally I like the Ohio statute better than Maryland's. You could theoretically be charged under the bright or dazzling lights section too.
Truckers usually flash their low beam lights, so that would not violate any statute in relation to high beams or dazzling lights.
K9Vic said:Are there quotas in Florida? They are illegal here in Texas.
My guess is that the Troopers are upset that the flashing of headlights cuts into the quota and they have to work hard to meet it.
Cited News Story said:The suit evolved out the fact that Campbell says "I don't like what the government is dong especially now when most people have a hard time affording gas and now they have to defend themselves against a made up charge that doesn't exist."
WhiteLite03 said:Side note, when I took drivers education classes way back in the day, we were instructed not only to flash our headlights before passing, but also to activate our horn, so that the driver being overtaken was aware of it. lol