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TIFU by fleeing a traffic stop on accident

Obligatory this didn’t happen today, but it took me a hot minute to put the pieces together. To set the scene, you turn onto the road, it starts flat, go down a hill, there’s a sharp turn and my driveway is at the end of the turn. There was a large SUV behind me, and behind him was the cop.

I was driving home one day and turned onto my road. I looked into my rear view and saw red and blue lights, so I pulled over to let him pass. There’s a lot of police activity in my town, and they fly up and down my road all the time. The SUV behind me pulls over, bumper to bumper with me and the cop stops behind him. He starts walking up to the SUV, so in my head I’m like, oh ok. Dude is getting pulled over. So I pull back out and go home. I turn the corner and pull into my driveway.

As I’m getting out of my car, I turn around and the cop goes flying past my driveway, lights on and sirens blaring. The SUV then passes slowly behind him. I thought absolutely nothing of it.

Leading to now. I had an 08 Hyundai Elantra, which had a recall for the rear brake lights (that I found out after selling it). My brake light was ALWAYS out. I replaced it four times in the year I had it. That cop definitely was trying to pull me over. He probably saw me brake to turn into my road, tried to stop me, and the SUV behind me did exactly as I did. Pull over to let him pass. Had he meant to stop the SUV, he wouldn’t have flown by in the time it took me to get home and out of the car.

When I turned the corner, he most definitely didn’t see me turn into my driveway. So little did I know at the time, I succeeded in fleeing a traffic stop. Probably didn’t get my plate either, cause the SUV behind me was blocking it.

I’m an honest person, had I known I was the one being stopped, I would have stopped. But I had just gotten out of work and had brain fog. Sorry officer.

TLDR; A cop lit me up for a burnt-out brake light, I thought he was trying to pass. I pulled over along with the person behind me, then pulled out and turned into my driveway. Cop sped past in pursuit.

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