Legal Question in Traffic Law in Virginia
traffic ticket crossing solid white line
We recently received a ticket on a Virginia interstate highway for crossing a single solid white line to move over to the right to prepare to exit. The officer claimed it was a violation to cross a solid white line, even into a lane moving in the same direction as we were and that we should have traveled further to where the line was dashed not solid before we moved to the right to exit. At the point of the ticket we were moving to exit at Reagan International Airport and there were many lanes of traffic.
I thought a single solid line meant proceed with caution, that a double solid line meant do not cross and a dashed white line meant cross at will.
Is our interpretation correct?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: traffic ticket crossing solid white line
Your description of this event sounds like an over eager metro airport officer anxious to boost his ticket numbers. You would be well advised to contest it, even if you have to go to the federal courthouse in Alexandria
to do so.
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