Articles Tagged with vehicle and traffic law

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This could be a Traffic Week post, but it’s a new week and time to move on. That said, it’s hard to let go of the steering wheel:

Automobile Fraud and Unsafe Vehicles: How the National Motor Vehicle Title Information System Can Help You Protect Yourself, January 6th, 2010, by Tracy Russo:

Excerpt: “…[C]ar fraud can place unsuspecting consumers in unsafe vehicles….
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Consumers can access critical nationwide total loss and salvage vehicle information on vehicles by visiting www.vehiclehistory.gov. NMVTIS is the only publicly available system in the U.S. to which all insurance carriers, and auto recyclers, such as junk yards and salvage yards, are required, under federal law, to report to on a regular basis….” (link to full post)

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Welcome to the end of Traffic Week at the OLR Blog. Traffic law posts will appear throughout the year, but this is the end of my Traffic Week experiment.

Despite all efforts at smart driving, even the best amongst us will get a traffic ticket. I’m not sure I can do better than my Oregon Legal Research blog posts on Beat Your Ticket, Get Your Day in Court.

Happy Trails!

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For my penultimate Traffic Week blog post, I give you these:

1) Transit musings: Try this transportation blog: Human Transit

2) Traffic law sometimes surprises: If you ever were in doubt about the truth of this statement, “if you read only what is written in the statutes and the constitutions you will be absolutely wrong about what the law is,” let the following be a wake-up call:

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Don’t let your kids grow up to be traffic statistics. Maybe you want them, instead, to grow up to be transportation analysts or transportation journalists!

Some Oregon traffic statistical compilations:

1) ODOT Crash Analysis and Reporting

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A few of the on and off-the-grid Portland-metro, Trimet, and traffic blogs for more than you might want to know about public transit in the Portland-metro area:

1) Trimet official website
2) History of Public Transit in Portland
3) Hard Drive: A commuting blog
4) Association of Oregon Rail and Transit Advocates (and their Transit Links)
5) Portland Transport
6) Transit Sleuth
7) Trimetofficialinformation
8) Trimetiquette

Traffic Week and Traffic Law OLR blog posts.

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Pedestrians have to follow the law, too. The Oregon Pedestrian Rights [and responsibilities] website links to laws and other resources.

I drove (very slowly) past a jogger the other day. It was a dark, gloomy, wet early – very early – morning. The not-so-smart jogger was in the street, jogging in the same direction as traffic, on a narrow 2-way street, dressed in black, WITH HEADPHONES ON.

This person definitely had a death wish. We all see this every day. I’m a hard-core pedestrian and public transit rider, someone who drives very, very little, and these pedestrians make me very nervous. (I suppose it’s the same way bad bicyclists make good bicyclists nervous and irritable.)

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No, not that hand signal, although, a Nov. 15th, 2009, Ask Marilyn column had a wonderful Q&A about those hand signals (aka “motorist salute”), that is, she agreed with a reader that a SORRY! hand signal was desperately needed.

(And this post is not about Turn Signals, which I talked about in another Traffic Week blog post.)

None of us is perfect and there are times when we wish to convey our contrition.

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After reading yet another news story about someone who made an Unsignaled Lane Change and ended up in really deep trouble for other infractions (to put it mildly), I offer this public service notice.

(Oh, and you can find out what that infraction will cost you at the OJD Base Fine Schedule website.)

I know most Oregonians (including police and parking enforcement vehicles) don’t have working turn signals, or maybe there is a turn-signal force-field around the state that shuts them off, but get yours fixed, or figure out how to make them work, and then use them.

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Even if Calvin sometimes bemoans that fact that life is never unfair in his favor, sometimes things do turn out the way they are supposed to, or at least the way we want them to:

Debra Denise Slaight V. DMV, Oregon Court of Appeals (A133609)

(For a summary of the case, see the 12/30/09 OJD Media Release)

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Before getting to the Traffic Law Question of the Day, “If I get a ticket (or get in an accident), do I have to tell my parents/guardian?”, here are some:

Words of Wisdom to Parents of New Drivers: If you can in any way afford it, hire a professional to teach your teenager (or any loved one just learning) to drive.

Note: Do you think you can’t afford driving lessons? Wouldn’t you be willing to give up something, anything, to save your child’s life – or someone else’s child’s life? Yes, you can give up $500 worth of fancy, fattening coffee drinks and other Not Good for You treats for a couple months – and possibly save a life while you’re at it. Regular coffee tastes just fine and in fact it will taste even better knowing what you did with the money you saved.

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