A lot of people say "keep up with traffic"....if traffic's going 130+ mph, and you're at or very near the speed limit (say, 75 in this discussion), then who's wrong if you get a ticket? Cop? Or you. Guarantee the cop is not going to pay your bail and I can also speak from experience, the judge isn't going to be very kind to you.
Secondly. I saw a wreck a couple years ago. 2 cars rolling down the freeway, they passed me, one on each side (3 lanes I was in the middle). I was running about 78 (legal limit 75). Keeping up with traffic ya know. They were probably 95+. One of those cars came up on another that was running about the same speed as I, tried to cross lanes behind it and clipped the quarter panel. Both cars spun, one was hit by another car. Driver of the slower car was partially ejected before the vehicle she was in hit the bridge support broadsided. By time I got to her, she was gone. Her brain was hanging partially out of her ear area and her guts were partially removed from her belly. Spine and such broken, body doubled over. Mind you she wasn't the one in the legal wrong here, she was the one running close to the speed limit. Other driver was also hurt but didn't die. Grueseome scene. My part timer coworker was the first first responder to get there, I knew him when I seen him and said don't even bother, she's gone. Of course he had to check. I kept a few pictures of it for a while but have removed them. That's what excessive speed can do. We get complacent because we've been doing the same thing daily for however long and then one day, "it" happens and oh my goodness why did it have to happen to such a great person who's never done anything wrong.
similarly a guy I used to know, has a drinking problem and Iv'e been telling him for decades that it'll catch up to you at some point. It did. He's had 2 DWI's and this last time crossed the center line and hit another car head-on, killing the 2 in that car and barely getting a scratch on him. He is being charged with manslaughter among many other charges and possibly going to the big house for a good long time. It only takes once.
