Virginia Introduces $3550 Speeding Ticket

www.thenewspaper.com ^ | 6/21/2007

[Hi Heels]

Yer kiddin'. And what is your point? My point is if 15 mph over the speed limit is "so little" and so insignificant, shouldn't we change the speed limit to be realistic and start ENFORCING the law? As was posted here earlier. It's a law, not a suggestion. I live in Los Angeles. I'm 53 years old. I've been driving since I was 16. I drive the freeways every day. The most crowded, the most congested, the fastest freeways in the country. I've had two moving violations in all that time, both for speeding. No accidents. My point is that the implication of the law that perceives that 15 miles per hour is okee dokee, then 20 isn't so bad, then the law needs to be changed to reflect the true speed of the road and then enforced. Please, all of the posters here, quit insulting my driving that you know nothing about, my common sense which is clearly intact, my geography which since I'm double degreed is superior to yours likely, etc. It's mean-spirited and uncalled for. EEEESSSHHH.....

I'm afraid I'm done addressing this issue when all I did was drop in this thread to voice an opinion over a stupid comment in the article before I was TWICE ripped a new one even though not one poster bothered to read the entire thread where I repeated myself over and over and over to the throngs of testosterone ladened NASCAR drivers....Have a good evening.

[Shortstop7]

Me neither. Nor will I ever visit there. Their tourism dollars will tank when the word of this gets out.

[holidayidol]

So, has anyone heard any fallout from this throughout/after the holiday? I’m sure that there have been plenty of tickets the past couple days.

[OBone]

It has long been a felony to be caught going 20 mph over the speed limit regardless, and the points stay for 11 years.”

LOL

No, it’s not yet a felony, but if the Virginia Legislature thought it could make them more revenue, they might make it one.

Don’t believe it? Get caught going 20 over the speed limit and find out.

OB

[TheLion]

As a Virgina resident, I am still scratching my head over this one. It is going to really hurt the poor. Anyone living from paycheck to paycheck is totally screwed.

[Trajan88]

speeding ticket = guilty until proven innocent.

I'm sure T.J. would have had a problem with that (that's if there were cars around in the late 18th/early 19th centuries).

[RFEngineer]

“Don’t believe it? Get caught going 20 over the speed limit and find out.”

*ahem* let me just assert my 5th amendment right against self-incrimination.

It’s not a felony.

[mware]

Damn even NJ doesn’t have that kind of tax.

[Koblenz]

The tax applies only to Virginia residents

So what about illegal immigrants who live in Virginia?

[sphinx]

Here in Shirleyville (formerly known as Atlanta) the speed limit on expressways is the odious 55.

Here in D.C. it's 45 because the Anacostia Freeway is, you see, an urban interstate. I got a speedcam ticket for going 56 at 7:00 a.m. on a bright sunny Saturday morning, dry pavement, very little traffic, no congestion.

Wasn't $3,550 though.

[SomeCallMeTim]

Yea well... so is driving 50 mph in a 35 mph zone as your slowing down entering a local “speed trap.

These fees are outrageous. I can’t believe free people will accept this kind of theft for long.

[Hi Heels]

I posted this in June. And if you read the rest of the thread, you’ll see why I ain’t posting to it anymore.