Current Events > Have you ever been stopped by a police officer while driving?

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I've been stopped but never been ticketed

Yeah, usually a tail or brakelight out

Yeah, I used to have a pretty bad speeding habit.

Yes, expired tags

I've been pulled over for suspected DUI

Totally reasonable suspicion, totally innocent, and cop was super nice and let me meet his k9 unit, a yellow lab :)

Twice. Once for the tint on the windows being too dark (person was probably trying to bust me for something else that didn't exist), and the other for the officer not seeing my license plate sticker, even though it was on the other side of the plate.

Yeah it was just starting to get dim outside and I was pulling out of gas station right behind a cop. He pulled over so I could pass and than stopped me. Asked if my headlights work, and I was like ohh.. and switched them on. Pretty fast little interaction haha

He told me it was a random check. But turned out that my vehicle registration was registered at a different address than my drivers licence. I had a good explanation and he was okay it and just told me to change it asap.

One time I was pulled over and I hadnt been speeding. The cop admitted he couldnt tell if it was me or another guy (wtf?)

Another time a cop followed me into a parking lot and accused me of using a phone while driving. I had not and pulled out my phone to show my call history and then he said he had the wrong car (again, wtf?)

Finally pulled over for not getting into another lane on the highway while he was on the side of the road with his lights on. I had been distracted by my kid doing something in the backseat. He gave me a ticket that time.

BTW I am a white woman.

Twice. Once for speeding and once for expired tags.

Cuticrusader09 posted...

BTW I am a white woman.

Um okay?

Just once for a headlight being out. No ticket.

Nope, I was stopped while jogging at night because a black man jogging at night is apparently suspicious behavior in my state.

Probably like 10-15 times.

I have been pulled over for speeding four times in my life.

2004
2014
2016
2020

I got a ticket the first time. 52 in 45 zone. It was after midnight in a college town.

Second time, 63 in a 55 zone. After midnight on a Saturday. Got a warning.

Third time was 30 in a 25 zone. After midnight on a weekend. Got a warning.

Last time was 30 in a 25 zone. Edge of a small town thought the speed limit had gone back up. Fourth of July evening. Got a warning.

The theme is I get pulled over either late at night or on holidays. I rarely get tickets. I think the cops are looking for drunks when they got me.

Never, been driving for 19 years

Once, for not turning my headlights on after dark. It was a new car, and my old car had autolights so I wasn't used to turning them on manually. Cop let me off with a warning.

Yes, one of my headlights went out because I hit a bump in the road while in the bad part of town, they probably thought I was a drug dealer or something. Got let off with a warning, but the one cop was trying to act like I was suspicious because it was 30-40f outside and I wasn't wearing a jacket... which didn't really make a whole hell of a lot of sense for someone they believed was a drug dealer.

Yeah I think a few times.

First time was a loud muffler.

Once for speeding

I got stopped & frisked while I was walking once, never when driving

Nope, I'd have a heart attack if they did.

I have been stopped while walking on a military base a couple times, though.

Two speeding tickets (like 10-15 over on the highway).
Running a red - turning right while clearly being able to see the nearest car was like a quarter mile away on the 40mph road, just so happened to be a cop who saw that I didn't come to a complete stop.

Those happened as a teenager. In the decade+ since, just a couple times for warnings:
Headlight was out - I had the replacement bulb I'd just purchased with me, was on my way home to install.
Speeding in a construction zone - after like a week of it being in place, they moved the start of it up by about half a mile even though the equipment and blocked off section hadn't moved yet and there was no work actively being done at the time. Just didn't notice the sign had moved and was already slowing down to the proper speed where it had been before when he turned on the lights. Explained and he let me go.

Yes, for both (separately, years apart). Traffic violations and once for a missing rearview mirror that I stupidly knocked off the windshield (don't ask).