No traffic in the vicinity of your vehicle?  There's no need to use your turn signal in West Virginia.

"The statute says that you only use your turn signal in the event that other traffic is affected so, you know, if there's no traffic around, obviously, no traffic can be affected, so you don't have to use it," says Attorney Carter Zerbe.

Zerbe was one of the lawyers for a man who was pulled over by State Police in Hampshire County back in 2006 when he failed to signal a turn in Romney.  After he was stopped, Chad Clower was arrested for DUI.

In a 5-0 vote this week, the Supreme Court upheld a 2007 court decision out of Hampshire County that said the Division of Motor Vehicles could not suspend the man's drivers license for DUI because he was only pulled over for failing to signal a turn, which is not required, no other reason.

Law enforcement officers must have cause to stop someone.

"The officer was one or two blocks away and the (Supreme) Court concluded that there's no way that a car that's one block away can be affected by the failure of the person to use his turn signal," Zerbe said on Tuesday's MetroNews Talkline.

"The purpose of the law is for safety reasons.  So, if nobody is in danger by the failure of somebody to use a turn signal, then there's no reason to require that."

That means, if you're out in an area with no traffic, you do not have to use your blinkers when you make turns.