Follow Too Close & Fail To Stop
My wife, who has never had a traffic ticket in her life, just got 11 points.
Two tickets: "following too closely" and "failure to stop"
She was on a residential street and was behind a car at a crosswalk waiting for a pedestrian. Pedestrian crossed, they continued. Cop was drivig towards them down a side street , and as they passed he went after my wife.
At the next block there was a red light. Cop was behind my wife lights flashing - car infront of my wife - she was boxed in, stopped, and had nowhere to go but the Cop made no attempt to get out of his car. She saw him and figured he wanted the two cars to clear the intersection. So when the light turned green, my wife made a right hand turn, cop followed zapped the siren and she stopped.
Totally bogus. He told her she had to be a minimum 5 car lengths behind the car infront of her. Was she supposed to stay stopped at the crosswalk and wait for the car in front to get 5 lengths away before proceeding? It's totally a case of him seeing them after they were stopped at the crosswalk, but he had no idea that's what had happened.
Then he said sorry about the points, "maybe you can go to court and I can help you there". So why bother in the first place?
Any help with this would be apreciated