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    Default Can You Get a Ticket for Screeching Tires

    if you intentionally make your tires screech very loudly while accelerating fast when the light turns from red to green.

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    Default Re: Can You Get a Ticket for Screeching Tires

    Yes, you can. It is often charged as careless driving. Some states have laws specifically addressing the squealing of tires.

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    what about squealing brakes and what about screeching tires while making a left or right turn?

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    what about squealing brakes
    Squealing brakes might be a safety/equipment matter and it would depend on the laws of your particular state as to whether "neglect" constitutes a violation.

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    what about screeching tires while making a left or right turn?
    Same answer as provided by Mr. KIA above... Careless or Reckless driving.

    And before you ask, a squealing fan belt is more likely to be a non issue...

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    What if your kid is "squealing" in the back seat (in a proper child restraint system, of course)?

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    What if your kid is "squealing" in the back seat (in a proper child restraint system, of course)?

    Barry
    Kid goes out the window??? Are we there yet?? YOU ARE ...

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    Default Re: Can You Get a Ticket for Screeching Tires

    In Florida, such squeeling tire activity often gets charged as "exhibition of speed", thanks to a rash of legislation that passed in response to street racing.

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    Squealing brakes might be a safety/equipment matter and it would depend on the laws of your particular state as to whether "neglect" constitutes a violation.


    Same answer as provided by Mr. KIA above... Careless or Reckless driving.

    And before you ask, a squealing fan belt is more likely to be a non issue...

    brakes can squeal after a car wash, when the brakes pads get wet they squeal when pressed. And seriously reckless driving for making a tire screech, that's absurd. In some places you can be arrested for reckless driving, then you can be arrested for making a screeching tire noise then.

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    seriously reckless driving for making a tire screech, that's absurd. In some places you can be arrested for reckless driving, then you can be arrested for making a screeching tire noise then.
    You asked a general a question, (and you didn't even specify a state)... So you got a general answer... I guess you have no problem with a careless driving charge for screeching tires... Some states (like CA for example) do not have such a statute on its books. Instead, and as indicated by aardvark for FL, you might get an "exhibition of speed" citation for screeching tires in CA. Although reckless driving may require more than the element of speed or screeching tires, it does not fall too far behind on the scale of what you might face for pretending to be an Andretti on the public highways... If you want to push your car to the limit, take it to the track.

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