$300 speeding ticket

[DeepO]

Someone once said: "Where there is a lot of traffic, grass don't grow". Makes you think on how attractive a nice curly head is

DeepO

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
Low testosterone count eh?

Nah, excellent genes

[Capt Dizle]

In the south (US) which was largely rural the early highways were built directly through all the little towns, or you might say the little towns were built on the early highways.

The speed limits on these highways are usually 55mph outside the town limits.

Now the town fathers worry about all those cars whipping through their main street (the highway) and set up these speed zones like 35, or 25, or even 20.

So someone is driving a reasonable 55 down a rural highway and all of a sudden he rounds a slight bend and he is in a 35 mile zone. Almost impossible to anticipate unless you know the highway, unless you know the route from experience.

And of course the little town's one patrol car sits there all night and the officer will ticket you.

Thats a speed trap and its not right. I have had officers let me off saying "I know its wrong, the town council are all a bunch of jerks, and they won't build a ball field for the kids".

Really, they should have more signs to warn people they are approaching redneck speed zones.

[Capt Dizle]

also, even if the highway is state maintained the town has the right to regulate speed, but you have to put up a sign that says "reduce speed ahead", the town often can't do it because the town is often too smalll (can ride through in 35 seconds ), so they would have to petition the state to put up the reduce speed ahead sign, which don't get done....

[ZoboZeWarrior]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
France also has the most horrendous road death toll in Europe

The first cause of death for young french people is road death ...

Too many accident were cause by alcohol and speed.

[DeepO]

Originally posted by ZoboZeWarrior
The first cause of death for young french people is road death ...

... as it is in nearly every 'developed' country. But again, france does not have the highest death toll of Europe, that's Portugal. But I expect that once more countries join the EU, it will change, I believe countries like Malta are a lot worse

DeepO

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by jimmytrick
In the south (US) which was largely rural the early highways were built directly through all the little towns, or you might say the little towns were built on the early highways.

The speed limits on these highways are usually 55mph outside the town limits.

Now the town fathers worry about all those cars whipping through their main street (the highway) and set up these speed zones like 35, or 25, or even 20.

So someone is driving a reasonable 55 down a rural highway and all of a sudden he rounds a slight bend and he is in a 35 mile zone. Almost impossible to anticipate unless you know the highway, unless you know the route from experience.

And of course the little town's one patrol car sits there all night and the officer will ticket you.

Thats a speed trap and its not right. I have had officers let me off saying "I know its wrong, the town council are all a bunch of jerks, and they won't build a ball field for the kids".

Really, they should have more signs to warn people they are approaching redneck speed zones.

Those exist in every country in which I've lived. The first speeding ticket I ever got was just such a trap, north of Toronto. I had left the "town" but sped up too soon. Its just that in some towns in the south speeding tickets account for most of the town budget.

[NeOmega]

I just read your story Alexander, you know the one where you inferenced my breaking the speed limit by 10 mph is putting children's life in danger.....


How about looking where you are throwing your papers is a dangerous way to drive..... not doing 40 in a 30?

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by NeOmega
I just read your story Alexander, you know the one where you inferenced my breaking the speed limit by 10 mph is putting children's life in danger.....


How about looking where you are throwing your papers is a dangerous way to drive..... not doing 40 in a 30?

He had the paper run but he wasn't delivering papers that afternoon, just speeding around the neighbourhood as usual

[SlowwHand]

Looking for kids to flash, no doubt.

[Provost Harrison]

Well fortunately now, in the UK, a lot of these towns and villages have had bypasses built around them to avoid this problem...these roads running through the centre of these areas caused a lot of deaths.

[Dauphin]

Where I lived was nice and quiet until it was boxed in by 3 motorways and the Channel Tunnel rail link.

[Alexander's Horse]

Now that we've got the road toll down below half what it was in the seventies by targeting drink driving, speeding and seat belt wearing, there's big public campaigns about low level speeding and how dangerous it is.

Most suburban roads in Australia have had their speed limit reduced from 60 kph (30mph) to 50 kph (25 mph) because research has shown that even a 10 kmh reduction in the speed limit has dramatic benefits in reducing accidents and death and injury, like halving it. Most people strongly support this. Enough is enough. Its my kids out there on the road now.

[Dis]

the crying woman probably didn't get a ticket.

It's your fault for being male

[Provost Harrison]

Doesn't the UK actually have the lowest road death toll rate in Europe? Not hard when your competition is Italy, France and Greece