Hi there, I am sorry to hear of your costly trip to work this morning. That sucks.
If this is what said officer has told you then it strikes me as being a complete crock of shit.
Did he actually cite you for lane-splitting or what is the actual offence you have been written up for?
It is illegal to pass a vehicle on the left except if it is turning right? Ok, fair enough, but this shows the maddeningly inconsistent way in which the law is interpreted and enforced. I and probably 90% of the motoring public should be ticketed every day for passing to the left of f***wits doing 80kph who are in the right hand land lane on two lane roads and who insist on sitting there despite the lines of traffic behind them and clear road ahead of them.
1of6 has already alluded to the 100m clear road ahead being a nonsense. That being the case noone should ever pass anyone on the motorway unless there is a gap of 100m to the vehicle in front. The way some tailgating toss pots drive on our roads a gap of 100mm can be difficult to find.
Where did the 1m clear gap come from? Even pushie riders get 1.5m and its not (to the best of my knowledge) a requirement rather something which is ADVISED.
Its easy to say take it to court. To actually properly test it you would need a very expensive lawyer and be prepared to take a bigger hit than already dispensed with the ticket. To me this is what the motorcycle groups who take a subscription fee should be doing. Getting said expensive lawyer and getting some legal precedent set so that these stupid inconsistencies stop happening. Instead they organise bikeois and protest, very useful
Officer LVBA75 does not actually have the final word, the courts do. The sucky thing is not that we do not have a system to let us challenge stupid enforcement decisions by people with no legal training but that the cost of doing so is beyond the reach of most of the population.
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