Friday morning about 7:00, I was making a left turn off of MLK, in Beaumont, onto College street heading west. I saw the Beaumont cop sitting at the college street traffic signal to my right. I caught the signal red and was sitting in the middle lane with the cop in the same lane at the signal behind me. Our lights change green simultaneously and off we go. At the top of the hill, I am the only car in my lane with the cop behind me. There are several vehicles in the right hand lane. Speed limit is 30, I look down and am doing 31….ok in my book. The cop is severely tailgating me and I can’t move over. He was so close I could not see his headlights in my rearview mirror. The cars in the right hand lane are going slightly faster than me and with a cop on my tail, I am not about to speed and risk a ticket. We go over the railroad tracks and the traffic in the right lane has moved up significantly. When there is an opening so I can move to my right and let the cop pass, he shoots into the right lane overtaking me and cuts me off, swerving back in front of me. It was very close. I felt like honking my horn and flashing my brights at him, but thought why risk it. He sped on up with no one in front of him now, running the red light at 4th street, never hitting his lights. Maybe he was having a bad day just starting his shift and having to work a holiday. Not my fault. It wouldn’t have bothered me to see him down the road pulled over with a flat. I might have tooted my horn on that one.
Was there anything else I could have done? I don’t think so.