hwybear wrote:"road conditions" don't cause anyone to go off the road.

a driver can not drive on the wrong side of the road: during a hill, curve, bridge, railroad crossing, which is typically where yellow lines are found
and/or
driver must drive in a marked lane and may only leave the marked lane if it can be done safely

the road is straight and level and the center line is a yellow broken line
(i will try and get the wording on the ticket)

my niece slid off the raod on a slippery night and totalled her car, no one saw the accident and the driver whom stopped and found her had seen nothing, their were no witnesses to what had actually happened. The police charged her with crossing the center line and told her he could have charged her with careless driving. her father says the police was nice enough not to charge her with careless. In my younger days this would have been written off as "road conditions" and no charges would have been laid (i guess times change) My thought on this are the charge is made to fight? I can't...