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Well after dropping off my Girl.
I was coming home a 20 minute drive in relative quiet.
I turn off from the Pkwy onto a street thats 35 mph zone.

However, there is a down hill that accelerates you to 50 in neutral.
I usually just let it go since the road is next to a park and the park closes at dusk.
And there is a uphill right after the downhill that quickly slows you down back to 35.

Anyway, after slowing to 40 I put the tranny into drive and give it gas as I go up the hill.
Seconds I am at 35 MPH as go about 200 feet a car catches up to me. Never saw the car before the hill or after. So I continue DWL and make my way towards a light.

I see cars making their way to the light from the other direction!
So I take the turn in hypermiler fashion (Pretty darn fast 25ish) to avoid the light turning yellow. The car is still on me which surprised me since most people slow down a bit more.

Then I get to climb to the next hill and put in neutral again. And this hill is more modest keeps me at 35 - 38ish. Taking a left into the development there are more street lights there and Now I realized it was actually a Cop. He follows me into the left turn lane and I keep going into the development he just does a U-turn.

I wonder if he was just following me?
Explains why he could keep up with me into that turn?
Or maybe he saw me taking that hill really fast.

Not sure what he was thinking.

I bet s/he saw that your speed was varying and wondered what was going on.

Hi,

A couple weeks ago similar thing happened to me. Did a fast turn while doing dwb thing and picked up a cop, he followed for several miles then turned off. There is really a big push around here to nail drunk or impaired drivers, and I'm sure that's what he thought was going on. I now slow more before turns.

JimT

Let's see... Speeding (50 in a 35), varying speeds and a "pretty darn fast" turn... You're lucky you just got an escort home!

Well in my defense is a very steep hill.
which just leads up to another hill. I was doing 50 for less than 3 seconds before slowing down again.

Tell it to the judge... :)

I used to worry about getting pulled over for my slow driving. After passing a few cops w/o getting pulled over I have become less concerned about it. Although there is the occasional time when I have a line of cars behind me when I am doing the speed limit.

I got stopped like this doing 50 in a 35 zone in a small town NH while FASing down a hill. I got a warning ticket. Since then I've tried to stay closer to the speed limit while FASing down hills in NH. This is a very hilly route (Rt. 119 Central Mass to Brattleboro, VT across NH). This route now takes longer AND I get lower gas mileage on it.
--Walter

I wish I had hills that were long enough for me to go beyond the PSL :rolleyes:

I was driving home on the freeway today, going up a 3-mile long steep hill at around 50. There was a truck behind me, and then I noticed there was a cop sitting behind the truck, about to take a left and pass me. I wasn't going to take a chance for being stopped for doing 50 in a 65, so I gunned it up to 60. He passed me at a leisurely pace before gunning it on up to 80 :D

I got followed going very slowly around campus. The speed limit is 20-30 mph. I finally got stopped in the middle of campus and was given a warning for being over the white line at a light at the edge of campus. I admit, my front tires were right on the first white line of the crosswalk. Some of the lines are so far back though that I can't look left or right. And I'm fairly short so that makes looking even more difficult. I usually have to scoot up just to look, even at stop signs. I was told that it was disobeying the light.

She had me sign the warning. I said, "Okay," and went about my merry way.