Posted on 06/23/2007 8:37:19 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
The going rate for defense of Reckless by Speed in NoVA is an $850 flat fee.
we have lots of diplomat tags around here who don’t get hit either.
yep :(
Doesn't matter. What King Kaine hath decreed, doth become. Now sit down and become a good subject...
Good point, wasn’t thinking of the diplomat tags. And over here we have a lot of tourists.
Basically you have a little southern town which you'd have compared to Raleigh NC in 1940 having become a major metro area like NYC without any of the roads or infrastructure for it while the state capital of Virginia takes all of the highway money both state and federal and builds European autobahns in tidewater and the southwest part of the state. The ONLY thing which would save the situation is a total bypass of the Baltimore/DC/Fredericksburg region cutting out above Whitemarsh and back in below Fredericksburg, and we needed that 20 years ago, but you can forget it happening, and the stuff like that Springfield interchange which they actually are spending money on is a bandaid on cancer.
Too many years of being invaded by northeasterners and Third Worlders has that effect after a while.
Yet another fine example of what happens when Democrats are put in charge of the Commonwealth.
Always has, we pay tax on breathing in Virginia.
But the only folks that would pay that are the ones that have a history of offenses and can't take another one. Ordinary folks would just grumble and pay a few hundred dollars for the fine. I would expect the market to be fairly thin at that price point.
There is room with the new fines, however, to develop a whole new market at a lower price point.
Gotta say I emailed this story to the lead-footed dauther living in VA after I saw it on NRO’s “the Corner”.
Girl could be broke in about 1 day!
I disagree - the insurance implications of a reckless conviction, vs. a speeding ticket, are enough to justify the $850 expense.
Driving through the infamous “Mixing Bowl” (I-495, I-395, I-95, and local roads converge on each other) in Springfield scares my dad, and he’s been driving here for 27 years.
You are right - I hadn’t factored in the insurance. I still think there is room to grow the market with the new state fees.
Perhaps some pissed-off Virginians will sue the state, claiming unequal treatment under the law (non-Virginians get charged less than Virginians)?
Actually, the anti-gun big-government RINO who proposed this, Albo, has been around for some time. I’m glad that I opposed him in his first primary.
Albo was a prosecutor; I don't know if he still is.
I found this link courtesy of WRIC Richmond.
The applicable offenses are the more egregious ones: things like reckless driving, speeding 20 mph over the limit (or over 80 mph), drunk driving, eluding the police, etc. are the ones penalized.
If you're caught going 10 over, you will just get the speeding ticket.
Since when do the people's wishes mean anything in a dictatorship?
Oh! you must be thinking of the United States of America?
Wake up, man! This is the "United Socialist Republic of Amerika".
The USA is as dead as a doornail.
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