Worst speeding ticket
 

Was wondering what anyones worst speeding ticket was. I have 4 in my first 8 months. Cop was nice on the worst and only nailed me for 99 in a 60.fun car. hard to drive slow.

I only have one ticket in this car, and it's a pretty boring one at that.

I got caught doing 90 in a 65 trying to get my sister somewhere on time, a little less than a year ago. Cop was nice, put me down for 80. I did traffic school, so insurance didn't really care about it.

I haven't sped since then.

I'm not a contender for the worst speeding ticket by any means but possibly a couple entertaining ones.

Especially the time SEVEN police vehicles were required to pull over a BRZ and FRS in west virginia (Sorry, only two pictured). I guess nothing else really goes on and they thought it was gonna be something crazy. Cops were cool, they asked me to pop my hood to check it out :popcorn:

Another time I saw a Corvette and a Mustang racing and I got in trouble for wanting a better view of it.

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Doesn't Virginia have the WORST speeding laws in the country?

Yes it does. This was the other Virginia. 97 in a 40, written as 44 in a 40. Good road, not the worst way to spend $160.

How the hell? How old are you? That doesn't bode well for your insurance premiums at ALL.

I've owned this car for 3 years now and have 55000 miles. I've done some aggressive back roads driving, drifting and doughnuts in parking lots and have yet to get a serious ticket. You have literally a ticket every two months, perhaps it's a warning to control yourself better or find a place that doesn't have a lot of police activity and invest in a radar detector/laser detector.

If the cop went easy on you by only hitting you for 99 in a 60, you must've been up to some seriously irresponsible stuff on public roads. It is a fun car, but it's incredibly easy to drive it slow if your license/insurance premiums/public safety is on the line.

I went from a Escort Passport 8500 about 12 years ago and now onto a Uniden R3 just recently, so 12 years no speeding tickets.
Going through Virginia on vacation was the last one right before I bought that first detector. 63 in a 60 ticket pushed me to make their(roadside tax collectors) existence negligible on my driving record and wallet.
Now I know when those punks are sitting waiting at least 1/4 mile off axis, most of the time a good 1/2 mile away and more than mile or more frequently.
Even if you are a normal driver and especially if you drive a little over here and there, an initial investment of a radar detector will save you a lot of money and stress in the long run.
My son drives very slow and safe and I still have him using one so he doesn't get that one jerk cop that is handing out 3 mph over tickets to boost his departments cash reserves.

That's not how being an LEO works, sorry to bust your hate cops bubble. Also it's not how the budgeting works for Law Enforcement either.

Keep in mind he's Canadian and is probably referring to KM instead of miles. That's still excessive, but not quite as bad as 99 MPH.

I haven't been pulled over, let alone ticketed, in 10 years. Never been pulled over in my truck either.

Back when I was 20 I got a racing ticket. I actually was not "racing" at the time. But at that point in my life, my driving habits... Lets just say, left room for improvement.

They sent me to a "Driving Class" at a hospital 2.5 hours away. The class started in the conference room where we looked at photos of crashes and injured people for two hours. Then they tell us that all the photos were of crashes in the last few days. And that now we are all going to QUIETLY visit the recovering people in their rooms. Before we went room to room, they took us into an empty operating room. A doctor described in graphic detail some of the things that go on in the OR. The Dr also decsribed what he does to save the lives of people that get in car wrecks. At this point, a guy passed out that was in the class.

We then visited the people we saw in the photos earlier. It was extremely impactful to me and others in the class. It brought everything home to me in a way that I will never forget. It was clear to me that I had been stupid and that I had to change my driving habits instantly.

I still think about it sometimes.

Drive safe out there.

Completely missed that. Original sentiment still stands, though with less gravity.

Don’t look at them as speeding tickets. They are the cost of driving fast!

You didn't bust it, it's still there. ;)

Keep telling yourself it's not about the $$$.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/public...raps_169925453
"They were named speed traps in 1995 following a AAA investigation that found profit — not safety — was the primary motivation for issuing tickets.
In Waldo, the police department was eventually found to have been issuing speeding tickets based on quotas. The force was disbanded in 2014 and the
Alachua County Sheriff’s Office now handles traffic enforcement."

And closer to home, after seeing my local police all driving in all their new police cruisers from the new red light camera ticket revenue they got, they got a wake up call.
The red light cameras were deemed a nuisance and a for profit system and they were taken down ( I was a part of that thank you very much). Now for some odd reason we seem
to be seeing more side of the road tax collectors looking for that cash from speeders now that they lost all that red light $$$. What a coincidence. Sorry but it's not a secret
any more that police use tickets (especially easy to give ones like speeding) as a source of income for their dirty pockets.

we have photo radar. they mail a ticket to the registered owner. no insureance or points repercusions. just a cash bill.

No games and straight to the point. It's what it's all about, making that cash.

Oh come on, no one is hating on cops, and you seemingly are ready to defend them without any proof.

It's well known is some jurisdictions law enforcement is encouraged to write citations due to political pressure and for increase in funding. I can find a thousand articles with lawsuits and cases referring to something similar to quotas but called performance standards or the like.

If they truly cared about law enforcement they wouldn't write so many easy to beat tickets in court and judges wouldn't allow police officers to suggest in court that the points be dropped and fines be instated instead.

138 mph in a 65. Dropped to 95 ticket was ~$180. Around 8 am on a Sunday morning not a soul in sight aside from the cop hanging out on a hill completely out of sight. 2nd was 89 in a 65 which was completely unintentional. Didn't realize until I caught up with traffic that I was going over the locally accepted 80 and that was too late.

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In NY that 138 would have gotten your license revoked on the spot with your car towed and you left scrounging for a ride from wherever you are. 40mph over is automatic immediate revocation. I got a 91 in a 55 a few years back and the trooper actually looked it up because he wanted to take my license away and ruin my world, he even told me so.

I can completely understand harsh moving violations in densely populated states. I really got lucky with this police officer too. That was my 2nd ticket ever and my record was completely clean at the time. He actually told me he's going to call the boss and ask if my car needs towed or what not but he just came back with the 95 ticket and said chill out. Was a good learning experience heh.

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"no insurance or points repercussions" - no justice.

The driver is not ticketed, just the poor slob who owns the car.
Akin to 30 km over in Ontario, virtually convicted and punished at the side of the road by the cop, without a trial in court.

The end of civil freedom in Kanada will be complete in October when legislation will be introduced to end reasonable and probable grounds prior to search and allow cops RANDOM physical body assault of drivers at the roadside.
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Broke my 10 years of no accidents or tickets last summer when I first had the car.

Clocked doing 109km/h in a 60 zone. I was being silly and knew that the speed limit went up to freeway speeds just over the hill so I started ripping it a bit too early...

Was pretty embarrassed, and was also informed by the officer that 40km/h in my province is grounds for impounding my vehicle for a week with a hefty "excessive speed" fine. Luckily he had some mercy on me when I explained I was from out of town on a work trip (I was a ferry ride and 3 hour drive from home) and had a clean record before, so I just got a regular ticket and 3 points on my license.

Speeding isn't worth it.

People blow past me all the time, weaving through traffic and generally acting like fools. No cops in sight.

Then I go out to Texas for work and get pulled over in a rental car on a straight, empty rural highway for going 65 in a 60. The trooper actually said, "Our radar is calibrated within 2 miles per hour, so you were basically going 3 over. That's still a ticket."

Then he came back with a warning instead. I think he was just bored out patrolling the boonies and wanted to mess with somebody.

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I got a ticket for doing 69 in a 65. A rebellious 4 mph over during clear daylight, no traffic on a 24 mile long bridge.

I also run with scissors.

All of these tickets for just a few mph over are really disturbing. I've always considered 3-5 over like actually not speeding. It sucks to hear that tickets are being issued for such minor amounts.

I sometimes wonder what the rest of the story that we are not being told is when somebody get's a ticket for a couple of miles over. Of course everybody says they were perfect gentlemen when pulled over and that the cop was always a total jerk but maybe, just maybe...

I know that in Virginia they will pull you over for 2mph over especially in places where the limit is 45 or less. A few years ago we rented an RV and drove from NY to FL and I got pulled over 3 times in VA, twice for not starting to signal early enough for turns and once for 3mph over on a long downhill on a side road just off I95. I didn't get tickets for any of them because I had the whole family including the father in law and dog in there and it was obvious that I wasn't trying to do anything wrong but the one for 3 over really was a **** and threatened to arrest me for a variety of things including kidnapping and human trafficking. While he was running my license my wife called her best friend who's an officer up here and he called the dept down there and spoke with them, the guy came back to the RV and said that I must know God or something because he was told to let me go but that I should go slowly and watch my back.

The one I mentioned above wasn't really a jerk. He was tensed up in cop mode like he intended to start something when he first approached the car. He said he clocked me at 65 in a 60, and I said, "You're seriously stopping me for going 5 over?" That's when he told me it was really 3 over but was still a ticket.

I dealt with cops on a daily basis in my prior career in TV news, so I know there's really no point in arguing when one of them decides to go stupid. I just shrugged and said, "Okay," and he didn't seem to know what to do. He just stood there staring at me for a moment, waiting for me to argue. When I didn't, he stammered a little and asked me why I was out there, and we ended up chatting for a while about my weird job. Then he came back with a warning instead of a ticket.

One thing I didn't mention is that the rental I was driving had "foreign" plates from New Mexico. Like I said above, I think he was bored out in the High Plains, saw a foreigner in his territory and just wanted something to do in the off chance that I might be smuggling hipsters from Taos to Austin in the trunk. There's probably only so much staring at the landscape in the Panhandle one can take before things start to get weird.

Wow, it's been since 2001 since I've gotten a ticket, but it was a doozy. It was like 2AM on a Tuesday and I had just worked 18 hours (was working at a tech company in the Seattle area at the time and we were crunching for a release). I owned an FD at the time and was getting on a completely empty freeway and just gunned it down the ramp and kept accelerating up to about 120, then started slowing to the speed limit. Crested a hill still going over 100 and a cop was sitting on the shoulder. I didn't even wait for the lights, I just pulled over in front of the cop. Had my license and registration in my hands with both hands on the wheel and was very compliant. She just gave me a straight speeding ticket luckily and was actually quite nice/understanding. A woman I worked with had a lawyer contact that could get you out of any ticket for $300 (my ticket was $350), so I managed to keep it off my record and save $50.

I swear in NW OR/SW WA they won't pull you over until you are going more than 10 over. I definitely still speed, I just keep it within 10 (unless it's a 25MPH zone, then keep it within 5) and never get a second look from the cops. I'll even pass cops on the freeway when everyone else is in this cluster around them too afraid to go a tiny bit faster than the cop, maybe give them a little wave as I'm passing. LOL

Having huge speeding tickets shouldn't be a mark of pride or considered fun. It's the easiest thing to not get one, just set cruise control or pay attention to your speedo. If you can't pay attention to your speed while driving, or just don't care, then you lack the capacity for driving safely and should consider riding the bus. For the price of that ticket you could've spent a day on track, had a lot more fun, and not endangered other people's lives and property without their consent. Sorry if I'm being a little preachy here this is an important topic to me for personal reasons.

As for these less-than-10-mph tickets, that's just local law enforcement being local law enforcement and you have my sympathy. In WA and CA where I've lived (I think it's really the whole west coast) cops won't (or can't, my memory is hazy) ticket until you're 10 or over.

Only one I had was I tore out of a Chipotle parking lot squealing tires, took the car sideways down this service road at night. Had no idea there was a cop turning onto the road a ways back and witnessed the whole thing. I'll never forget what he said "Wow, that was actually pretty cool. You don't have to stop doing that. Just don't do it around me."

Was nice and wrote me up simply for rolling through a stop sign. One of the only times I acted douchey with the car and of course got nailed.

My worst ticket was about 10 years ago. I was in my truck driving from Susanville to Reno on 395. If you have ever been on this road you know it is one of the most boring and ugly roads in California. I was stuck behind 3 big rigs going about 60 for miles until finally a passing lane going up a small hill. I really got on it to get around all of them, and as soon as I hit the top a CHP in a Mustang was going the other way. He made a U-turn and I knew it was me. I probably hit around 95. I told him my cruise was set at 70, and I only got on it temporarily to pass the trucks, but he was still writing me up. He was really nice, and so was I until he started trying to lecture me on safety. That is when I politely interrupted and mentioned that I've been driving longer than he has been alive, and he can save his lecture.


He wrote me up for I think like 85 in a 70. I did the on-line traffic school. That is my only ticket since my 20's.


Now, there was that day when I was 19 and got 2 tickets in one day....

I have yet to be given a speeding ticket by a cop but I've gotten screwed a couple times by photo enforcement crap -.-

Could be worse.




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This could just be some nonsense I picked up somewhere, but my understanding is that the 10 MPH tradition originates with US federal regulations that only require auto manufacturers to calibrate speedometers to within 10% of the speed, i.e. up to 33 MPH if the speedo shows 30 MPH, up to 77 MPH if the speedo shows 70, etc. Theoretically you could use that as a defense in court, saying that even though you got a ticket for 66, your legal speedo showed 60, so you had no idea you were speeding.

Police departments don't want to lose those cases, so they train the cops to allow a buffer. Since calculating percentages is a bit too difficult for them, they use a flat 10 MPH instead.

The one I discussed above was a Texas state trooper, complete with goofy hat.

Around here it can vary heavily on what road you are on. On the highways they usually give an easy 20 KPH (12 MPH) or even more margin. In the city you may be lucky if they give you 10 KPH. No way of knowing what they will do. A cop buddy once told me they are not so much worried about just the speed alone but how your overall driving is. He said you could wiz past him at 120K in a 100K zone and he won't bat an eye (His actual words) but if you are weaving in and out of lanes or tailgating at 5K over he will pull you over. We have very few traffic cops in secluded areas though. Since most are in higher population density areas they are generally more focused on the drivers that are actually creating a hazard. Just last week I actually saw one pull over a car that was doing about 80 KPH on a 100 KPH highway. Would like to have stopped and thanked him since that was far more dangerous then doing the 120K that everybody else was doing.

Most ppl drive too aggrasive for their own good, there is a place to drive fast when it comes.

That being said...... nothing can ever happen in Eugene! :D Time to get back in college vibe. :party0030:

I got a ticket last year doing exactly that, exactly same situation with the hill and trucks, except I was passing Jackpot. >__>

The cop was super nice thou, the cops in those rural area had to write some tickets to keep the place running I guess........

You are partially correct. The international standards say the speedo can never show below actual speed when tested, but can show as much as 110% of actual speed. So, in theory, it would never cause you to speed.

Now, that is with standard tires, etc, etc.

I think if you go have it tested and it shows it was inaccurate, then you can use that in court, but its very unlikely it will be in your favor.