First time for everything...

[DivineDesign]

<SIGH>...so I was coming back from lunch today.....And I got stopped. My very first speedng ticket. And I always joked that I would just cry to get out of it. Yeah, no problems is trying to cry, the second he took my license and saw my unregistered, temporarily insured, paper dealer tags still on the car, i burst into tears, i coudl even talk to the guy i was crying so hard. :mad:

[TheBluePanda]

Yeah, everyone gets tagged at some point. I've been pulled over about 5 times. I finally stopped speeding the day I got pulled over twice in one day. That sucked.

[balou]

I think I'm due. It's been 19 years. Those tickets hurt too. How much did they hit you up for?

[vtwin_gary]

maybe its are wonderful FHP

[DivineDesign]

$83.50...I was going 75 in an 55...and he wrote it up as 64 in an 55. So Apparently I got lucky from crying, a perfect driving record, and I look cute to day too. ;) Just kidding...

[nyc_skater]

<SIGH>...so I was coming back from lunch today.....And I got stopped. My very first speedng ticket. And I always joked that I would just cry to get out of it. Yeah, no problems is trying to cry, the second he took my license and saw my unregistered, temporarily insured, paper dealer tags still on the car, i burst into tears, i coudl even talk to the guy i was crying so hard. :mad:

Well...what was the outcome, did he cry with you, did he offer you his embroidered hanky?

[DivineDesign]

Read above ^

[Patrick Shannon]

I've only gotten one speeding ticket in my life, and that was doing a 28 in a 15 when I was 16 years old. Sheesh.

[mac.FINN]

I've never gotten a ticket - luckily - because I speed, always. To me speed limit signs are suggestions.

Although last time I went from Toronto to Ottawa a cop came out behind me and hit his lights and sirens. Fortunately he blew right by me - I was probably going 130km/h.

[Patrick Shannon]

Although last time I went from Toronto to Ottawa a cop came out behind me and hit his lights and sirens. Fortunately he blew right by me - I was probably going 130km/h.

That is the best feeling of relief in the world when that happens. The cop hits his lights behind you, then zings past you and grabs the car next/ahead of you.

[nyc_skater]

Read above ^

sorry, i musta missed that.

Go to court, they always cut them in half at least!!

[D-Zine]

If it was under $100 then you did good DD! LOL Mine are usually around $125 but I haven't had one in awhile *knocks on wood*

Hey Rach - I'm gonna be in Jax this weekend :D

[balou]

That was nice. Minimum ticket around here (I live in WI) is $133 and they're pretty strict.

[DivineDesign]

I've never gotten a ticket - luckily - because I speed, always. To me speed limit signs are suggestions.


I am the same way. Surprisingly I was lucky and never gotten one in my whole 9 years of driving. But lesson learned. :(

[DivineDesign]

Hey Rach - I'm gonna be in Jax this weekend :D

Well don't drive fast on JTB!!!!!! ;)

Why are you gonna be in Jax?? What day?? My best friend is coming to visit this weekend.

[D-Zine]

Haa no I know how Jax is...I won't be drving fast on JTB!!! LOL!

My friend Andy is on the Coast Guard stationed there. He is getting deployed in the next few weeks and sunday is his birthday so we are going to spend the weekend with him so we can see him before he leaves :) Plus he is mad that I haven't come with my other friends the last few times to see his new house so I gotta pay up! We are coming in some time friday and leaving sunday afternoon I guess.

[DivineDesign]

oh yeah!!! Matt just got back from his frist 3month deployment...but left again monday for 14 days. But I'm glad to have him back home!!!!! You'll have to let me know where you guys are hanging out and if i'm in the area maybe we can runinto each other! ;)

[reuber1]

Balou, Wisconsin speeding tickets suck. Iowa's aren't so bad. I had two last year within two weeks of each other, 75 in a 55 ($60) and supposedly 55 in a 35 ($60). I also had a passing violation too; perfectly open road, at night, woman who passed me on the highway doing 90 was now doing 20 in front of me on a 30 mph town backroad with a "No Passing" lane, so I gambled and passed her anyway. Lucky for me a cop was around the corner and that cost about $80.

I also got blasted with a school bus passing violation ticket six years ago. I was coming from the other direction, the bus slew down with the yellow lights on for less than a half second, too quick for me to react and slow down, there were no kids out for me to even know that she was going to stop, and she turned the red ones on as I passed (incidentally, this happened at the same place as the last ticket). That a-hole bus driver move cost me $150, right after I bought books for my freshman year of college.

Now that I don't speed anymore, I get tailgaited pretty much constantly. I can't stand Iowa drivers.

[DivineDesign]

OH DZ btw I'll be in Savannah for the 4th...matt ships will be there. ;)

[Drorain]

in mass its not unheard of to get a $495 speeding ticket...thats about 95-110 mph I think

[reuber1]

in mass its not unheard of to get a $495 speeding ticket...thats about 95-110 mph I thinkJaysus christ. Note to self, keep speed limit in check in MA.

[Broacher]

On the main highway to work (the QEW, in southern Ontario), the limit is 100km/hr. And yet, unless your four-ways are flashing, everyone does 120. Passing lane traffic usually whizzes by at 130+.

So, when I get off the main highway and hit the rural highways, the limit drops to 80 and everyone does 100-110. On some roads it's 60, and everyone does 80-90. I think it reveals how people 'process' limits. Certainly not in mathematically precise percentages, or it would be 120 for 100k limit; 95 for a 80k limit, and 72 for the 60. I think people respond to road conditions mostly.

[reuber1]

Speaking of first time for everything, I saw a full on rainbow the first time ever yesterday after leaving the gym. Not one of those half ones that disappear into the clouds, I mean the full, parabolic awesomeness of an entire rainbow from one end to the other.

[PersonasBinar]

I've been told the secret to 401 bomb runs.
Leave MTL at 4am ....once doing the 401 it's all shift changes
I did 160 to Toronto and didn't see a single police car.
Officers coming off shift are doing paperwork, ones going are are either in the station or getting breakfast.

[mac.FINN]

Broacher I know what you mean. It seems all of Southern Ontario the understood speeding limit is 20km over what it says. Police on the 401 won't even bother to stop you if you're going 120km/h, I've gone past parked cops with radar guns and everything at 120 and they didn't even bother.

And PersonasBinar the 401's great if you leave early in the morning. Last trip I did Toronto to Ottawa (about 500km) in 3 hours. My only problem with the people on the 401 is that they assume since they're going 120 they need to be in the far left lane. Even if I'm coming up fast behind them - they never move! grrrrr.

I think I need to do some serious wood knocking after this post :D

[reuber1]

I think I need to do some serious wood knocking after this post :DSo is that what they call it now? Well, just clean up after yourself.

[vtwin_gary]

my biggest was 98 in a 15 (school zone)
yeah he took me to lock up & left me car on the side of the road.
the only some what cool thing the cop did was let me call a friend to pick up my car before the tow truck came. it saved me the tow & impound fee & he didn't write it up as school zone that also saved a little.
the ticket had speeding 50+ over
wreckless driveing
racing
no seatbelt
resisting arrest (i beat this, it took awhile for him to turn around catch up to me & turn on his blues. he said i saw him when he 1st pulled out)

all in all it cost me one day in county
$500+ in fines
my license for 6 months
insurance out the wazoo

note to self: don't drag race high school idiots that have daddys new truck

oh by the way i like to drive fast.

[Ghastly]

On the main highway to work (the QEW, in southern Ontario), the limit is 100km/hr. And yet, unless your four-ways are flashing, everyone does 120. Passing lane traffic usually whizzes by at 130+.

So, when I get off the main highway and hit the rural highways, the limit drops to 80 and everyone does 100-110. On some roads it's 60, and everyone does 80-90. I think it reveals how people 'process' limits. Certainly not in mathematically precise percentages, or it would be 120 for 100k limit; 95 for a 80k limit, and 72 for the 60. I think people respond to road conditions mostly.

I think the correlation here is not the speed at which the driver percieves that he is going...but the amount by which he/she reduces his/her speed...Your figures show that a 20km/h reduction in the speed limit yields an equivalent drop in actual speed.

Perhaps more research is needed but if most of the results followed this trend then the conclusion I would draw is that most people are actually reasonably well attuned to the decrease in their speed...though this is independent of what speed they are actually travelling.

[chris_bcn]

I used to be a wee bit of a boy racer - not anymore though - nearly killed myself by spinning on an overpass - if I'd gone through the barrier it would have been a 40ft drop!

No offence vtwin_gary but if you're doing 98 in a 15 you should be banned for more than 6 months. That's stupid and reckless and endangering lives. Don't want to be preachy, but I have no sympathy, in fact you got off bloody lightly if you ask me.

[PrintDriver]

^Ha ha, yep. In MA you get 15mph over the speed limit as 'grace' (minimum penalty) then it's like $15 for each mph over that. It's easy to rack em up. I got stopped not too long ago for simply 'traveling' in the fast lane (ie not passing). Only got a warning as I wasn't speeding. Much.

[captain spanky]

i think americans and europeans have a VERY different outlook on speeding :(

Do you guys get points on your licence or is it just a monitary fine? In the UK aswell as a fine, we get points depending on how fast we were going, usually 3 for a minor offence 6 for a bigger one.. get 12 and we get banned. Points stay on your licence for 3 years. Drink driving is an immediate ban as is driving with no insurance. Community service and jail are also available for those who persistantly speed.
I personally have had 3 points before, but in my defence, they changed the speed limit of the road like a week before and hadn't provided adequate signage or notification of the change.

In the UK, generally speeding is viewed as dangerous and irresponsible (especially in built up areas) and not as a semi-lighthearted 'naughty' or 'cheeky' thing to do as a couple of you have implied in your posts. I think when you have been involved in/seen some pretty bad RTA's you tend to take it easy and slow down. If you want to drive fast, do it on the dragstrip.

[TheBluePanda]

Yeah, we get points in addition to a fine. You can avoid points in many cases by sitting through a boring driver education class.