OK. If you plan to pay it.......You can take
a ticket/points off your record with a 4 hour
$30 class at Tampa's Safety Council.
If you sign up soon enough after the offense,
you get a discount on the fine. Their number is 248-3009
...........don't mention my name....... -Bob

 

thats f'ing ridiculous....id do it to warn someone, and id appreciate if someone did it for me....its just curtious

just another way the MAN is keeping us motorists down!

hehe

 

Me too, I would expect it to say flashing your lights is illegal. Meaning you are actually doing it manually, flashing lights are illegal sounds like they are doing it on their own, such as emergency blinkers, turn signals, strobes, etc.

Hey, maybe we found your technicality!!

 

I only posted section 7 in my first post. Here is the entire statute:

316.2397 Certain lights prohibited; exceptions.--

(1) No person shall drive or move or cause to be moved any vehicle or equipment upon any highway within this state with any lamp or device thereon showing or displaying a red or blue light visible from directly in front thereof except for certain vehicles hereinafter provided.

(2) It is expressly prohibited for any vehicle or equipment, except police vehicles, to show or display blue lights. However, vehicles owned, operated, or leased by the Department of Corrections may show or display blue lights when responding to emergencies.

(3) Vehicles of the fire department and fire patrol, including vehicles of volunteer firefighters as permitted under s. 316.2398, vehicles of medical staff physicians or technicians of medical facilities licensed by the state as authorized under s. 316.2398, ambulances as authorized under this chapter, and buses and taxicabs as authorized under s. 316.2399 are permitted to show or display red lights. Vehicles of the fire department, fire patrol, police vehicles, and such ambulances and emergency vehicles of municipal and county departments, public service corporations operated by private corporations, the Department of Environmental Protection, the Department of Transportation, and the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services as are designated or authorized by their respective department or the chief of police of an incorporated city or any sheriff of any county are hereby authorized to operate emergency lights and sirens in an emergency. Wreckers, mosquito control fog and spray vehicles, and emergency vehicles of governmental departments or public service corporations may show or display amber lights when in actual operation or when a hazard exists provided they are not used going to and from the scene of operation or hazard without specific authorization of a law enforcement officer or law enforcement agency. Wreckers must use amber rotating or flashing lights while performing recoveries and loading on the roadside day or night, and may use such lights while towing a vehicle on wheel lifts, slings, or under reach if the operator of the wrecker deems such lights necessary. A flatbed, car carrier, or rollback may not use amber rotating or flashing lights when hauling a vehicle on the bed unless it creates a hazard to other motorists because of protruding objects. Further, escort vehicles may show or display amber lights when in the actual process of escorting overdimensioned equipment, material, or buildings as authorized by law. Vehicles of private watch, guard, or patrol agencies licensed pursuant to chapter 493 may show or display amber lights while patrolling condominium, cooperative, and private residential and business communities by which employed and which traverse public streets or highways.

(4) Road or street maintenance equipment, road or street maintenance vehicles, road service vehicles, refuse collection vehicles, petroleum tankers, and mail carrier vehicles may show or display amber lights when in operation or a hazard exists.

(5) Road maintenance and construction equipment and vehicles may display flashing white lights or flashing white strobe lights when in operation and where a hazard exists. Additionally, school buses and vehicles that are used to transport farm workers may display flashing white strobe lights.

(6) All lighting equipment heretofore referred to shall meet all requirements as set forth in s. 316.241.

(7) Flashing lights are prohibited on vehicles except as a means of indicating a right or left turn, to change lanes, or to indicate that the vehicle is lawfully stopped or disabled upon the highway or except that the lamps authorized in subsections (1), (2), (3), (4), and (9) and s. 316.235(5) are permitted to flash.

( Subsections (1) and (7) do not apply to police, fire, or authorized emergency vehicles while in the performance of their necessary duties.

(9) Flashing red lights may be used by emergency response vehicles of the Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Health when responding to an emergency in the line of duty.

(10) A violation of this section is a noncriminal traffic infraction, punishable as a nonmoving violation as provided in chapter 318.

 

i didnt see anything about flashing high beams, and if he DID put part 7 on the ticket, you could fight it easily, since it says NOTHING about high beams, and warning fellow motorists.


i flash my high beams while im in front of cops.people have flashed at me a few times and have saved me from some tickets, so i return the favor. we gotta stick together against the all(un)mighty po-po.

 

I was thinking the same thing if I ever got caught blinking my lights I would tell the cop I hit it by accident....

 

LEOs not showing up to court is an urban legend now and days. The City/State went hard on them since so many of them were not showing up and they now receive a write up about it if they fail to appear. Expect the officer to be in court for a broken headlight, speeding, etc, it is not like you will be his only case for that day so he has the time. On the other hand, go to court and pay the fines, and good luck not getting a judge that will not ride you on the ticket and make it a more punishable offense.

 

What pisses me off is that if the fucking law enforcement agencies did thier job in getting all the assholes holding up traffic out of the way then this wouldnt even be an issue

 

Good point. Look up the "legal definitions" for each thing he mentioned.
Maybe what you did does not fit in a category that is illegal under the
L Defin. of "flash", "lights", "blink", etc.......and therefore, you did
not commit an illegal act under the wording of the law.-Bob

 

I flash my lights to warn other people whenever theirs cops that I passed, never been caught, although one night I almost flashed another cop that was on his way to go park in the middle of BBD.

The man is holding you down.