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Depends where you live. In Atlanta, thats considered a superspeeder automatic $200 on top and license suspension. Easily removed in court though as long as your just pay lol
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In NY you are OK up to 30 mph over the limit. Then you will get hit with 6 points which puts you into the Driver Responsibility Penalty program and you get hit with a $300 surcharge from the state that is applied after you have paid your fine and court costs locally. The do you give you a chance to make time payments of $100 per year for 3 years. You work the points off at a rate of two points per year but any added offense that puts you above the 6 gets you hammered with the $300 again. If you can't watch your speed you will be bent over with your cheeks spread wide for the ramming.
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Is there an exception to that 80MPH rule on I-95 in the places where the speed limit is 70, south of Petersburg and from Fredericksburg to Richmond? If not, a lot of cars must be getting impounded on a daily basis, along with filling up the local jails. Just curious. I know radar detectors are illegal there as well. OP - in Florida, 30 over gets you into reckless driving territory and big fines. 25 over, you might be able to get that knocked down a bit. Talk to a traffic attorney, plenty of them around in Florida.
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In NY you are OK up to 30 mph over the limit. Then you will get hit with 6 points which puts you into the Driver Responsibility Penalty program and you get hit with a $300 surcharge from the state that is applied after you have paid your fine and court costs locally. The do you give you a chance to make time payments of $100 per year for 3 years. You work the points off at a rate of two points per year but any added offense that puts you above the 6 gets you hammered with the $300 again. If you can't watch your speed you will be bent over with your cheeks spread wide for the ramming.
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Is there an exception to that 80MPH rule on I-95 in the places where the speed limit is 70, south of Petersburg and from Fredericksburg to Richmond? If not, a lot of cars must be getting impounded on a daily basis, along with filling up the local jails. Just curious. I know radar detectors are illegal there as well. OP - in Florida, 30 over gets you into reckless driving territory and big fines. 25 over, you might be able to get that knocked down a bit. Talk to a traffic attorney, plenty of them around in Florida.
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Takes me back to when I was doing 97 on 301, with not another car in sight, in Caroline Co (28 Feb, 2009), and got a Ka hit, shut it down, and sure enough, there was a cop, and he lit me up!
Turns out he tagged me at 78 (speed limit 55), but didn't want to haul me in (I was his first Corvette pull-over in two decades, and thought the car was beautiful), so he wrote me up for 73, and proceeded to tell me how to get out of the ticket: who the judge would be, and how to proceed since this judge was lenient for those with a (relatively) clean record, since this was my first ticket in 26 years. The officer never addressed the RD bracket/suction cups still on the windshield, and where did I stash that thing.
His advice was sound, because the judge all but threw it out (down to a non moving violation) and court costs.
Turns out he tagged me at 78 (speed limit 55), but didn't want to haul me in (I was his first Corvette pull-over in two decades, and thought the car was beautiful), so he wrote me up for 73, and proceeded to tell me how to get out of the ticket: who the judge would be, and how to proceed since this judge was lenient for those with a (relatively) clean record, since this was my first ticket in 26 years. The officer never addressed the RD bracket/suction cups still on the windshield, and where did I stash that thing.
His advice was sound, because the judge all but threw it out (down to a non moving violation) and court costs.
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I just got popped a few months back in Texas for 21 over and it was a 260 dollar fine. I just got popped again in Arkansas about two weeks ago for 25 over but the guy wrote it for 19 over saying he was helping me out because 20 over or more is reckless driving there. So that might be true.
Something else that's true is that I drive over the posted limit by a wide margin and do so frequently. Its always a gamble how the cop will behave when you start pushing the outer limits of speeding, but in the big scheme of things, anything under one hundred generally means you will be on your way shortly, just a little bit poorer. Getting caught over the one hundred mark is a big risk. You should pretty much plan on getting locked up and your car impounded.
Something else that's true is that I drive over the posted limit by a wide margin and do so frequently. Its always a gamble how the cop will behave when you start pushing the outer limits of speeding, but in the big scheme of things, anything under one hundred generally means you will be on your way shortly, just a little bit poorer. Getting caught over the one hundred mark is a big risk. You should pretty much plan on getting locked up and your car impounded.
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What would have happened if I had been caught doing 175 in a 70? My guess is a perp walk and some time with free meals and lodging.
Stupid and will not do that again.
Stupid and will not do that again.
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The results of speeding depend on fifty states, your insurance co,. and the justice system.
The one I "like" the best happened in/near Deming, NM at 530 am on a sunny, summer, Sunday morning years ago. No traffic on I-10E. Cranked it up to catch up to the only vehicle on either side of the highway, clicking along at 90+. Nothing in rearview or front. Detector goes off. Large white Suburban immediately puts on flashers and pulls way off highway and I do, too. He's easily 15-20 feet in weeds. Two police cars. One stops at Suburban maybe 100 feet behind me, and one stops by me. No sooner do I roll down the window, and the Suburban is "moving" past me. Guess who he was? My guess? "on the job" as I looked and saw a family in the 'Burb". Me? Ticket time. Never stopped in Deming again---and won't. Loss of my revenue is all they get.
The one I "like" the best happened in/near Deming, NM at 530 am on a sunny, summer, Sunday morning years ago. No traffic on I-10E. Cranked it up to catch up to the only vehicle on either side of the highway, clicking along at 90+. Nothing in rearview or front. Detector goes off. Large white Suburban immediately puts on flashers and pulls way off highway and I do, too. He's easily 15-20 feet in weeds. Two police cars. One stops at Suburban maybe 100 feet behind me, and one stops by me. No sooner do I roll down the window, and the Suburban is "moving" past me. Guess who he was? My guess? "on the job" as I looked and saw a family in the 'Burb". Me? Ticket time. Never stopped in Deming again---and won't. Loss of my revenue is all they get.
