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    Default Impeding Traffic Charge for Driving Slowly

    My question involves a traffic ticket from the state of: Indiana

    Is it illegal to drive slow on a highway if I had a flat tire which does not allow me to follow the flow of traffic? The left lane is clear and open and traffic was able to use the left lane to pass.

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    Default Re: Impeding Traffic

    If you were driving below a posted minimum speed, then you were driving below the posted minimum speed. If your vehicle isn't safe to drive on the highway due to a mechanical problem, you pull over and either fix the problem or call help.
    Quote Quoting IC 9-21-5-8. Minimum speed limits
    Whenever the Indiana department of transportation within the department's jurisdiction or a local authority within the authority's jurisdiction determines, based on an engineering and traffic investigation, that slow speeds on a part of a highway consistently impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic, the Indiana department of transportation or local authority may determine and declare a minimum speed limit below which a person may not drive a vehicle except when necessary for safe operation or in compliance with law. A limit determined under this subsection and declared by appropriate resolution, regulation, or ordinance becomes effective when appropriate sign or signals giving notice of the limit of speed are erected along the affected part of a highway.

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