Sarah Palin's 16-year-old daughter Willow ticketed for speeding in family Escalade

Dailymail.co.uk ^ | 14th May 2011 | Daily Mail Reporter

[tanknetter]

In NC, you automatically lose your license if caught do more than 15 MPH over the posted speed limit. So if you’re doing 84 on a 65 MPH (which on a clear day and in light traffic doesn’t strike me as all that dangerous), you lose your license. Automatic. No questions asked. Of course, this law has spawned a cottage industry of lawyers who will, for a few hundred dollars (and perhaps 5 minutes of their time in court) “plea bargain” your case down to “reckless driving” or some similar offense. You still pay a fine, the lawyer pockets a fat fee, but you don’t lose your license. Pardon me for considering this an absurd racket.

Ok, so is that why NC drivers are consistently the ones that go so fast on highways (at least in the NE corridor) that they routinely blow the decals off my windshield? That they're so repressed in cutting loose at home they go berserk once they cross a state line?

;-)

All joking aside, Virginia has something similar. Getting clocked at 20 over, or above 80 and you get slammed with a reckless driving charge. They don't take away your license, but they DO impose all sorts of direct and indirect (points on license, which equates to higher insurance premiums) fines.

AND they make you show up for the court date. Unless you get a local lawyer to help you out. This surpassed the level of absurdity a few years back when VA passed a law taking the fines to extremes - thousands of dollars per infraction. Funny enough, the law was sponsored by two RINOs, one of which had a law practice specializing in ... driving infractions.

[Cooter]

Just for your information, there are no interstate highways in Alaska.

Just for your information, there are four officially designated Interstate Highways in Alaska - named A1 through A4. They may or may not be maintained to federal interstate highway standards.

[DrC]

“Funny enough, the law was sponsored by two RINOs, one of which had a law practice specializing in ... driving infractions.”

I don’t know how many other states have them, but it’s clear to me that the NC and VA laws are nothing more than “full-employment” acts for lawyers.