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Walk It Through: Across Town In Traffic

A slow truck, a right turn, a tow truck on the shoulder, and a race from the light.

On a road of three marked lanes, a driver wants to get around a slow truck.

Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.

One drive across town. Penalties in special zones, a crash caused by any of these moves, and how an officer judges a lane or a signal in a particular stop are not worked through here.

A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.

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Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.