I have a different perspective on speeding since a friend of mine was killed by a speeding semi three years ago this December 17 - here in Nashville.
I have recent story about my own encounter with speed. On November 23, I took my four year old son to Academy Sports, mainly to give my wife a little break. On the way home we had to stop at the merge from I-65 to I-440. The traffic was completely backed up, I was in the far right lane, I had no choice, but I always feel exposed when I stop like that on the interstate.
Sure enough I saw a car in my rear view mirror approaching me at a very high rate of speed. The joker must have been going 85 (this was at 6 pm on a week night). He got closer, and all I had time to do was grip the wheel and wonder if we would survive the collision. I did not even have time to pray.
At the last possible instant he found an opening in the other lane and swerved past us.
It took me about two hours to calm down.
My boy was almost murdered. Why? Because some a$$h@le wanted to speed through town.
Please think about the innocent lives you might take when you decide to speed.
Joe, I am not directing this at you personally, but I have seen too many dead bodies on the highway. You probably have as well. Arriving a minute or two earlier is not worth anyone's death.
"Sure enough I saw a car in my rear view mirror approaching me at a very high rate of speed. The joker must have been going 85 (this was at 6 pm on a week night)."
It's gotten to the point where if I have to slow down and stop on the interstate, I turn the hazard flashers on till I know the person behind me is going to stop. In one case I left them on until we started moving at normal speeds again.
Around here on I95 it's pretty common to be passed by some lane-weaver going 90+ MPH. I always make a point to look at the tags of the vehicles doing it, Maryland and New York tags seem to be the most common.
In one case, I was in the middle lane, to be passed on the right by a New York driver in a Lincoln Navigator going what must have been 100MPH, only to find him two minutes later going 5MPH below the speed limit (60MPH) in the left lane.
I guess that one voted for Hillary!