06 Nov 2007 - It's the Law

Last Tuesday, we drove John & Jan back down to their home in Denver. Shortly after we drove base Loveland ski area, we noticed that two police cars had one vehicle pulled over on the right shoulder of the freeway. Slowing down a bit, we continued driving towards Denver until one of the state trooper cars pulled out and chased us down with flashing lights. The officer approached the passenger's side of the car and informed us that he pulled us over for failing to yield to a stationary emergency vehicle. He stated that the law is posted along I-70 and that we should have moved to the left while approaching the two police cars on the highway shoulder. He also told us that two officers were hit (1 died) a couple weeks ago near Denver while stopping vehicles. As the officer was writing the ticket for violation 42-4-705, several cars passed in the lane next to us and the the other state trooper pulled one of the cars over. After getting the ticket (Jan 8'08 appearance date in Georgetown court), we headed to Denver and pulled into the far left lane to "Yield to an stationary emergency vehicle" at least 4 times as the state troopers were running a sting operation on I-70 East.