Some Traffic issues you might not have known about.


4 point ticket for improperly passing an ice cream truck~!!

NJSA 39:4-128.4. Approaching or overtaking stopped frozen dessert truck; stopping
a. The driver of a vehicle approaching or overtaking from either direction a frozen dessert truck stopped on the highway shall stop before reaching the truck when the flashing red lights and stop signal arm described in section 3 are in use. After stopping, a driver may proceed past such truck at a reasonable and prudent speed, not exceeding 15 miles per hour, and shall yield the right of way to any pedestrian who crosses the roadway to or from the frozen dessert truck.

b. The driver of a vehicle on a highway having dual or multiple roadways separated by safety islands or physical traffic separation installations need not stop upon meeting or passing a frozen dessert truck on another roadway.
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2 points for failure to blow your horn or having your car in neutral when going down hill or aground a blind curve.
NJSA 39:4-55. Action on steep grades and curves
The driver of a motor vehicle traversing a steep grade or mountain highway shall hold the vehicle under control and as near the right-hand side of the highway as reasonably possible, and when traveling upon a down grade upon a highway, shall not coast with the gears of the vehicle in neutral. When approaching a curve where the view is obstructed within a distance of two hundred feet along the highway, he shall give audible warning with a horn or other warning device.

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2 pointsd for backing out of your drive way if there are cars in the road

39:4-127. Backing or turning in street

No vehicle shall back or make a turn in a street, if by so doing it interferes with other vehicles, but shall go around a block or to a street sufficiently wide to turn in without backing.
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2 points for not letting the other guy pass you.

39:4-87. Overtaken vehicle to give way

The driver of a vehicle on a highway, about to be overtaken and passed by another vehicle, approaching from the rear, shall give way to the right in favor of the overtaking vehicle on suitable and audible signal being given by the driver of the overtaking vehicle, and shall not increase the speed of his vehicle until completely passed by the overtaking vehicle.
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2 points for “slowing”

39:4-97.1. Slow speeds as blocking traffic
No person shall drive a motor vehicle at such a slow speed as to impede or block the normal and reasonable movement of traffic except when reduced speed is necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law.

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5 points for tailgating (the required distance is “reasonable and prudent” and is entirely at the discretion of the cops)

39:4-89. Following; space between trucks

The driver of a vehicle shall not follow another vehicle more closely than is reasonable and prudent, having due regard to the speed of the preceding vehicle and the traffic upon, and condition of, the highway.

The driver of a motor truck when traveling upon a highway, outside of a business or residence district, shall not follow another motor truck within one hundred feet, but this shall not be construed to prevent one motor truck overtaking and passing another.
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The state ( the prosecutor) is entitled to benefit from the permissive inference that all Traffic control devices are correctly installed and registered with the DOT.
However in many 9nstances neither is true and you the defendant have the burden of showing that the signs and lights etc., are not installed properly or not registered. If you can make that showing you must be released in court of the charge.

9:4-199.1. Official traffic signs at traffic islands, safety zones and grade separations, etc.
Local, county and State authorities, with respect to highways under their jurisdiction, may erect and maintain appropriate official traffic signs not inconsistent with the provisions of chapter 4 of Title 39 of the Revised Statutes, [FN1] on a highway or at an intersection where the movements of traffic are regulated and controlled by traffic islands, traffic circles, channelizing islands, divisional islands, safety zones, grade separations or other physical structures which have been erected by such authority; and such authorities may erect and maintain railroad advance warning signs and other appropriate official traffic signs where any such highway crosses a railroad at grade.

39:4-183.1. Legal authority
Traffic signs shall be placed only by the authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction as authorized by law and only for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic.


This section, however, shall not prohibit public utility companies or other authorized persons or companies from erecting temporary MEN WORKING signs to protect construction, maintenance or repair work on or within a public highway; provided, such signs conform reasonably to the specifications included in this act.