Commonwealth v. Beachey

TAMILIA, Judge.

Philip Beachey, pro se, appeals his judgment of sentence of $25 plus costs of prosecution. Appellant, who repeatedly flashed his high beams within 50 feet of oncoming vehicles in order to warn them of a police radar unit, was found guilty in a bench trial for violating the Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S. § 4306 Use of multiple beam road lighting equipment, ‘Whenever the driver of a vehicle approaches an oncoming vehicle within 500 feet, the driver shall use the low beam of light.” Id., § 4306(a) Approaching an oncoming vehicle.

Appellant’s principal argument is that he merely “flashed”…