The Street Smart Driver’s Police Traffic Stop Survival Manual: For Parents & Their Teenage Drivers

By Miranda Wrights

WARNING: A cop is pulling your teen driver over—what now?

Parents of a teen driver can pass on a wealth of safe driving habits and practical driving wisdom; but what about dealing with law enforcement in your teen’s first, eventual police traffic stop?Being stopped by the police while driving happens a lot, yet do you or your teen driver know the right ways to handle (and survive) a police traffic stop when it happens to them?

The answers to those questions and more are in this new educational how-to book:
The Street Smart Driver’s Police Traffic Stop Survival Manual For Concerned Parents & Their Inexperienced Teenage Drivers.

This information ought to be REQUIRED LEARNING by parents for their peace-of-mind and by all teen drivers for their safety.The must-know topics in this book that aren't known by 99% of parents, aren't in any driver’s education class anywhere nor in any DMV license training book, include:
A. How not to make a police stop (traffic, DUI or other) situation worse, especially when you are in the wrong and regardless of the alleged traffic or other offense; and—
B. How to calmly assert and invoke your rights when you are absolutely in the right, including when you are involved in a suspicionless (and unconstitutional) police traffic stop such as for being a young driver just riding around, or perhaps caught up in a late-night DUI checkpoint stop.

In other words, you will be way better prepared to deal legally and properly with each police traffic stop situation and encounter. I promise.
Give your kid their best chance of a low-risk interaction with police when pulled over.

Teach them these traffic and driver safety things and more— including:
1. The pitfalls and traps in a typical, legal traffic stop to not to fall into.
2. How to deal effectively with traffic stops and cops at your car’s door — by learning what to say, what to do and as important what not to say and what not to do... and why.
3. Know your rights, how to assert and invoke them and maintain your composure — using tested, proven suggested responses.
4. Recognize the tricky, yet little-known police tactics used to get people to self-incriminate themselves.How to avoid humiliating searches of your person, property and vehicle because you know what to say to police.
5. The learn the top THREE police stop survival rules teen drivers DON’T KNOW about that can hurt them, and the 30+ TACTICS and tips to protect your rights and make the police traffic stop end well.
6. To prevent the escalation of a police encounter into an arrest.Use the Constitutionally-protected ways to deal with police during a traffic stop — regardless of innocence or guilt.
7. Help your teenager drivers learn how to avoid the common mistakes young (and old) drivers make when stopped by police or other law enforcement officers.
8. Know the mistakes everyday people make interacting with the police, all of which are completely avoidable.

This how-to book is written especially for all drivers particularly and especially for teenage and young-adult drivers, who will invariably, eventually find themselves in non-criminal traffic stops without a clue about what to expect, what to do and say... for their safety and survival.

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Like a parent's ounce of prevention, it certainly can’t hurt being well informed by properly preparing them for the eventual police traffic stop, than being sorry, locked up and maybe in worse trouble than a typical traffic ticket.

Thank you!

Miranda Wrights
Author / Parent

• Language: English
• Publisher: Miranda Wrights
• Release date: May 12, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310358210

Miranda Wrights

The author is not a lawyer. Rather, she is a writer and activist. And, more importantly, the mother and parent of three now early-thirty-something adults and former fearless, but inexperienced teenage drivers. She believes that teen drivers are like most adult drivers (including you, dear reader when we were newbie drivers); in that they made and make, albeit infrequently, driving mistakes, had minor car accidents, and get ticketed at least once. Still, the author feels very fortunate even lucky frankly to have survived her early driving experiences and police encounters, and that her kids likewise survived their vehicular accidents and various traffic stops by police. How about you... and your teenage driver? Do you and/or they think or feel the same? This ebook can help readers understand the what and why of police traffic stops.

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The Street Smart Driver’s Police Traffic Stop Survival Manual:

For Parents & Their Teenage Drivers

By

Miranda Wrights

Copyright

Copyright 2015-2018. Miranda Wrights. USA

All rights reserved worldwide.

Author: Miranda Wrights

Title: The Street Smart Driver’s Police Traffic Stop Survival Manual

Subtitle: For Parents & Their Teenager Drivers

Published by Miranda Wrights at Smashwords.

Smashwords Digital Edition: V03-18

ISBN: 9781310358210

144 pages. 29,233 words. 1,075 paragraphs. 3,719 lines.

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Dedication

This publication is dedicated to freedom loving Americans and the parents of teenage and young-adult drivers everywhere dedicated to raising law abiding citizens knowledgeable and supportive of the U.S. Constitution and America’s singularly unique Bill of Rights — its many freedoms designed to help each person realize their version of ‘The American Dream’ through this country’s unparalleled opportunities.

About that, this poem seems appropriate nowadays:

"Forget the American dream...what’s your dream? The thing that keeps you up at night...the thing that makes you happy...the thing that keeps your spirit going. Do that thing. Don't label it a hobby or what you do in your spare time type of thing...label that thing you do the thing you love to do. The thing you were born to do. When you stop doing what you love you lose a huge part of yourself. Don't get lost." ― Jill Telford

This publication was also written in support of Americans God-given and constitutionally-protected rights… on America’s roadways, its sidewalks and in their homes. God Bless and Save All Americans.

Acknowledgements

Thank you, Frederick, Karen, Rosanna, Diana, my three adult children, and my mother, Helen, for your support, extraordinary unconditional love, respect, and for indulging me my life’s space to pursuit my many eclectic interests — without each of you this publication would not have been realized.

I truly love you one and all.

May God bless you always.

Miranda

Table of Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Preface

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: Have You Had This Talk With Your Teen

Chapter Three: Typical, Lawful Police Traffic Stop, But—

Chapter Four: Powerful Little-Known Police Tactics

Chapter Five: Know, Use or Lose Your Rights

Chapter Six: How to Assert Your Rights

Chapter Seven: Three Important Caveats

Chapter Eight: Thirty Traffic Stop Survival Tactics

Chapter Nine: Mind These Warnings

Chapter Ten: Police Record Everything—Are You

Chapter Eleven: Strategies, Tactics & Tips Summary

Chapter Twelve: Closing Thoughts

Appendix I: For Your Consideration

Appendix II: Three Amendments Explained

Appendix III: Notices & Disclaimers

Appendix IV: Linked Text

About the Author

Preface

Hello Friend (if not now, then soon).

My name is Miranda. I am not a lawyer. Rather, I am a writer and activist. And, more importantly, I am the mother and parent of three adults and former fearless, but always frightening to me, teenage drivers.

You see, my kids are like most young adult drivers (including me and you, dear reader when we were teen drivers); in that they made and make, albeit infrequently, driving mistakes, had minor car accidents, and got ticketed at least once. Still, I feel very fortunate even lucky frankly to have survived my early driving experiences and police encounters, and that my kids likewise survived their vehicular accidents and encounters with local police.

How about you… and your teenage driver?

Do you and/or they think or feel the same?

Honestly, I wish I had known this information when I was a young and inexperienced driver. Moreover, I wish I knew this information and shared it with my three kids as each one learned to drive and invariably had their first driving encounters with police.

I trust you think and worry about the same. And I believe you will be glad you bought this work for yourself as you share and discuss it with your teenage and young-adult drivers. Thank you.

Chapter One: Introduction

Teenagers are many challenging and varied handfuls of problems, misadventures, victories, losses and lots of hyper-active hormones… and on top of all that comes getting their driver’s license, as well as their relentless lobbying and asking their parents — Can I use the car!?

Putting aside the fast-emotional roller-coaster ride having teenagers is like, a teenager’s learning to drive and driving safely is hugely worrisome for years but does lessens as they grow into responsible adults.

Fast forward to the present — my three children are now (2018) early-thirty-somethings, college educated, job-holding, responsible young adults. Two recently bought their first home! We are very proud of them. Each owns a newer car and pays their auto insurance (at last). Yet, it seems like yesterday when buying and maintaining their cars and paying high insurances was our responsibility.

Our teens went through four late-model used cars, cost us thousands in lawyer’s fees, court costs and fines, countless parking tickets, a few minor medical bills and many payments of auto insurance deductibles… all on top of plenty of teenage angst, drama, aggravation, late-night cell phone calls about an accident and related scares as each teen happily and luckily made it through their teen years and early twenties ALIVE which I pray yours do, too.

A quick story — can you relate?

Indulge me this quick story, please — my eldest son’s first car accident was strangely enough as a passenger in his friend’s ‘speeding’ car. Very late one cold winter night, it spun out on an icy road while turning through a four-way intersection and smacked broadside into a guardrail. The crash resulted in my son’s arrest and his over-night stay in the county jail.

I thank God (and the persons responsible for thinking up airbags) that neither young man was hurt. The car was, however, totaled and given to the National Kidney Foundation to which we’ve donated several irreparably damage cars over the years.

The rub about number-one son’s arrest is that had he known what to do, what to say, and most important of all — what not to say, and what not to do when encountering the police officer (hereinafter — PO) or other law enforcement agents (hereinafter — LEO) at the scene of that accident, then he and we, his parents, would have been far better off on many levels than we were that time. And for that matter, in his subsequent police stop encounters. There was his first fender-bender, a sudden stop-short accident, which was his fault. And then there was his next car accident when an elderly driver ran a stop sign and broadsided the driver’s side of our older mini-van in which he wasn’t hurt, just shaken up. In all those instances, he and we would have been well and truly advised knowing and using the information herein.

Side Note—

In his first car accident, had my son been wearing his seatbelt, he might then have been injured badly or killed. However, he wasn’t hurt fortunately beyond dumps and bruises because the impact propelled him into the mini-van’s front passenger seat. In that rare set of circumstances, not wearing the seatbelt possibly saved him from harm. I’m not advocating driving without the safety seatbelt; rather I’m just saying he was saved from harm that time. Since then my son buckles for safety and to not tempt fate ever again.

Lastly, I can say proudly that son number one was then and is now very level-headed. Like me, he remains calm in trying crises situations like that. And fortunately for all of us, each teen’s vehicular situations were a learning experience, after the fact.

Now I share that story because it is all too common in most teenage driver’s experience. Also, because I wish I knew then all of what I know now about how to survive a police traffic encounter whether an accident or traffic stop and had taught it (shared it) with my teenage driving children beforehand back then.

Reality Check Time—

Driver’s Education classes teach all sorts of things like seatbelt safety, basic highway driving, how to handle tricky driving and emergency situations, state traffic laws… but not the most overlooked of driver survival instructions —  how to handle the police during a traffic stop and accident. Such is the clarity of hindsight.

Like it or not, and believe it or not, teen and young adult drivers are more likely than not to have multiple run-ins with police while driving or even walking around town with their friends. Additionally, and unfortunately for some young-adult drivers, they