tickets ? police encounters ?

[marcus]

most annoying ticket i had and the only ticket since driving a yaris was speeding.. tach for 86km/hr on a 60 zone but its due to highway speed turned fr 80 hwy to 60 local i just noticed a second too late but was tached right on the border of the change on speed limit.. arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[carnageehw]

I hate speed traps with a passion normally reserved for Tom Brady and the Patriots. But I do understand the need for revenue. What I think they should do instead is give out "following too close" tickets.

It's much safer to be doing 20k over the limit with nothing around you than it is to be driving 2 under really, really close to someone.

[silver_echo]

while they don't have "quotas" per se, if a cop does 50 tickets one month and then 10 tickets the next, their superiors will think that they are slacking(even if they are not)... often times, at least in larger cities, officers become a victim of their own success if they happen to trip over a really good location for catching speeders...

[carnageehw]

Originally Posted by silver_echo

while they don't have "quotas" per se, if a cop does 50 tickets one month and then 10 tickets the next, their superiors will think that they are slacking(even if they are not)... often times, at least in larger cities, officers become a victim of their own success if they happen to trip over a really good location for catching speeders...

Around here, the speed traps are all in the same areas. I'd be surprised if it wasn't the same everywhere in the world.

Areas with flat, long stretches, a lack of traffic lights but an unusually slow (likely because of schools or houses close by) speed limit are always speed trap areas.

[silver_echo]

Originally Posted by carnageehw

Around here, the speed traps are all in the same areas. I'd be surprised if it wasn't the same everywhere in the world.

Areas with flat, long stretches, a lack of traffic lights but an unusually slow (likely because of schools or houses close by) speed limit are always speed trap areas.

at least in spokane, there are enough areas that work(schools, parks, into and out of the city, main roads that have multiple speed limit changes) that they rotate them...

[DebbyM46227]

In 42 years of driving, I've only received one ticket - 2 years ago for not wearing my seatbelt. I've been pulled over for other things but always have managed to talk my way out of getting a ticket.

[rick996]

46 years driving (legally) -0 tickets! Mainly due to the luck of the Irish.