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Driver Avoids Jail After Driving Down Freeway with Leg Out Window

By Baker Associates

Sometimes, as a driver, it is difficult to tell when you are driving in violation of the law. For example, it?s difficult to judge at times when you should use your turn signal, when you should turn your headlights on, how fast you should drive, etc. Other times, however, it is blatantly obvious that you are breaking the law while driving. Such instances may occur when the driver is drunk, speeding excessively, or driving down the freeway with his or her leg hanging out of the window. The latter activity is what landed a twenty-seven year old British man in court this week. The man reportedly had been driving down the freeway after work when he got what he described as an ?agonizing? cramp. At this point, the driver had three choices: (1) continue driving in agonizing pain, (2) pull over to a safe location, relieve the cramp, then continue home, or (3) thrust his leg out the window to stretch the muscle while continuing to drive and thus transforming his car into a weaving, swerving death machine...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on April 23, 2010 (boomark / email).