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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>78973</law_id><section_number>46.2-816</section_number><catch_line>Following too closely</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>46.2-397</reference><reference>46.2-492</reference><reference>46.2-868.1</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="46.2">Motor Vehicles</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Operation</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="8">Regulation of Traffic</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="1">General and Miscellaneous</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">driver</span> of a <span class="dictionary">motor vehicle</span> shall not follow another vehicle, <span class="dictionary">trailer</span>, or <span class="dictionary">semitrailer</span> more closely than is reasonable and prudent, having due regard to the speed of both <span class="dictionary">vehicles</span> and the traffic on, and conditions of, the <span class="dictionary">highway</span> at the time.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 46-229; 1958, c. 541, &#xA7; 46.1-213; 1983, c. 248; 1989, c. 727; 2015, cc. 31, 188.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
