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   "Curt"  wrote in message   
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   > Usually, sure. But the law specifically allows them to ignore stop signs   
   > and   
   > whatnot, if it'll help them catch the bad guy. And Matthew Beasley's post   
   > sort of made it sound like that cop that was in the wreck was being let   
   > "get   
   > away" with something. He's not.   
   >   
      
   I disagree there.  He is getting away with a crime.   
      
   The cop ABSOLUTELY has the legal right to run stop signs, sans lights and   
   siren when needed.  But he officer does have the obligation to make sure   
   that he is also exercise some care when doing so.  The issue I have is that   
   he went through a stop sign at 60 MPH in a 25 MPH zone.  The dead man didn't   
   have a stop sign.  The driver of the mini-van never had a opportunity to   
   yield.  The mini-van was traveling east on Glisan, traveling through a   
   intersection where cross traffic was required to stop.  How many of you   
   drive on a major thoroughfare with the expectation that someone is going to   
   blow a stop sign at 60 MPH from a side street and cross the street you are   
   driving on?  To blow through a stop sign at 60 MPH and cross a major   
   thoroughfare just plain meets the definition of reckless.   
      
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