{"id":1767,"date":"2012-05-30T15:03:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T05:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2020-06-20T01:47:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T15:47:15","slug":"flashers-legal-in-usa-but-not-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/home\/flashers-legal-in-usa-but-not-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashers legal in USA but not here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m talking about flashing your headlights as a warning against police activity, OK?<\/p>\n<p>A judge in Florida had to pass judgement in a case where a driver was prosecuted for flashing his lights to oncoming traffic to warn them of a radar trap. He got off, with the judge citing that the defendant was \u00a0&#8216;engaging in behaviour protected by the US constitution&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/High-beam.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1768\" title=\"High beam\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.privatefleet.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/High-beam-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"76\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s safe to do the same thing in Australia. There is no specific statute that covers the event, but the police can get you on a more general law that says it is an offence &#8216;to use high beam on an oncoming vehicle less than 200 metres away&#8217; even though he may thank you for it. Instead you&#8217;ll get a fine and lose some points in most states in Australia <a href=\"http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/kurs-cb.html\" style=\"visibility: hidden;\">http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/kurs-cb.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m talking about flashing your headlights as a warning against police activity, OK? A judge in Florida had to pass judgement in a case where a driver was prosecuted for flashing his lights to oncoming traffic to warn them of a radar trap. He got off, with the judge citing that the defendant was \u00a0&#8216;engaging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12329,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions\/12329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}