Q: If I confess to the police an illegal car passing that happened two months in the past, can they use this against me?
I tried to pass a slow car in a no passing zone of a two-lane road (illegal, but safe: the road is straight), but the other driver didn’t let me, so I followed him at a safe distance. At the next stop sign, he parked, walked to my car, opened fully my door screaming at me for a minute saying that “I cannot pass him”. Frequently we are in the same road going to our jobs, so after that I have passed him twice, one legally, the other one illegally but safely. Today, I started passing him legally, but he accelerated so the passing area ended, anyway I passed him, then he tried to hit my car, chased me for 6 miles at a high speed to my job (those 6 miles are not his usual route), told the security guards at the gate that I passed him illegally, but not saying anything about his attacks. My boss told me to go to the Police. I don’t want to pass him anymore, I just wish that somebody could tell him this so hopefully he will not attack me again. So, can the police use my confession against me?
A:
You are going to the police to tell them he is a road rage issue --perhaps tell them you don't want to press charges,but what he did isn't good.
That being said, twro wrongs don't make a passing on the right, so don't do it!
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