Don’t get busted for slowing.

Err.. what?  That’s right.  You just thought you could get busted for speeding, but it appears that you can get busted for slowing too.  In a recent Tennessee Supreme Court case, the court overturned a lower court’s ruling in which the court said:

We conclude, therefore, that a driver of a slow-moving automobile impedes traffic when his or her reduced speed interrupts the “normal and reasonable movement of traffic” by blocking or backing up traffic, unless the “reduced speed is necessary for safe operation or in compliance with the law.”

So, don’t pull a Cheech and Chong and be cruising around at 10 mph with your stash in the car.  If you do, the officer has probable cause to pull you over.

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