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Originally Posted by calico2222

I was terrified to tell my father though. I was still living at home and under my parents insurance. I decided the best way to tell him was to put it into perspective, so at dinner I said "Dad...how do you feel about being a grandfather? No, don't worry, I'm not pregnant but I did get a speeding ticket today"
. After he started breathing again I got the speech I was expecting but mom said that he laughed his butt off after I left the room.
Very nice.

I called my dad after this ticket and he started calling me Speedy Gonzalez
I haven't been on their insurance for 5+ years now, (though I'm sure they'd prefer me on it and not my brother, since he hit someone for the 2nd time in 2 weeks now...) but thought he'd get a kick out of me finally getting pulled over and breaking my no-ticket streak.
 

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I had two speeding tickets handed me--one, when I was on the 401 doing 75kmh over the speed limit using a 1968 Mustang Fastback with a nitro'ed 429 CJ---and the more recent one---going downhill on Wonderland Rd., in London ON-----on a mountainbike
 

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I, too, got a speeding ticket while driving a rented Mustang. I was going about 87 on the Golden State 5 Freeway. Speed limit is 70. The ride was so smooth, I didn't even know I was going that fast. I knew I was fast, just not 87mph fast.

It was my first ticket and to be honest, I didn't care at all. My late father was a worry wart and prone to minor depression. Little things like the refrigerator breaking down or a traffic ticket would give him sleepless nights for weeks.

When I think of him, I just remind myself that life is way too short to worry about life's insignificant bumps. So when I got my first $400 ticket, I paid it and moved on. Didn't even lose sleep. It's just a ticket.
 
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Just sent the info to a lawyer specializing in traffic law. Even though I was speeding, cant deny it, still don't want raised insurance! It went up $100/mo adding the Mustang as it is
That's what I get for chattering away and riding easy. I've noticed Mustangs seem to be a popular culprit


My hubby's parents made him pay all of his fines (wouldn't let him plead them down in court), and his insurance, when it started to rise with the numerous tickets he got in HS. He lost his license (dad took it and handed it to the cop) on his 8th speeding ticket. It was his senior year of HS and he couldn't drive for most of it. When he got his license back a few months before graduation, his liability-only insurance on a 20 year old car was $236/mo!! Lucky for him all his tickets have since vanished off his record, he's been lucky - almost every time he's been pulled over since we've been together (2005) except twice, he's gotten off with a warning
One of the tickets got dismissed because the cop didn't write notes on why he pulled him over (said he failed to stop for a train, but he did, the train was parked on the tracks, he waited a few minutes before going, cop gave him a ticket, train was still parked the entire time), and the other was in that NC speed trap last year that got kicked down by a lawyer.
 

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Originally Posted by trimph1

I had two speeding tickets handed me--one, when I was on the 401 doing 75kmh over the speed limit using a 1968 Mustang Fastback with a nitro'ed 429 CJ---and the more recent one---going downhill on Wonderland Rd., in London ON-----on a mountainbike
Okay, sorry I have to ask How fast were you going on the mtn bike and what was the speed limit?
 

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I've never gotten one and do tend to drive very safely. I think that growing up with a mother who drank too much and often picked me up after drinking I pride myself on not being like that and try to be as safe as I can. I felt very unsafe with her driving and I would not want someone in my car to feel the same way.
 

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I have been pulled over for speeding a lot in my years driving, yet not a lot of tickets thankfully. That decreased considerably when I got a radar detecter.
 

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I received two speeding tickets, the last one about four years ago when I was "flying" through Minnesota.
 

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Ive never gotten speeding tickets. This coming January (the 17th to be exact) my insurance will drop again because then both my DUIs will be officially off my driving record. Since Ive gotten my license back I follow the 5 over rule. I never ever ever even if Im in a dead rush somewhere do I go 5 over the speed limit......wait nope 1 single time have I gone faster than 5 over. The day we got the Explorer I had approx 20 minutes to get out of the shower, call the insurance company pick BF up from work get all the way back into town and then to the title place to transfer the Explorer title. It takes 12 minutes to get from my house to BFs work and it takes almost 20 to get from BFs work just to the edge of town and we had to go all the way to the other end. So the cavaliers final ride was a super duper fast one down 147, she did about 80+ there. Thankfully that road is known for never having cops sit on it. Now that Ive been driving the Explorer though its back to the 5 over rule and Ive never gone faster than 60 on our main road to the house and I never go 5 over in town because the cops there are d-bags and will pull people over just for something to do.
 

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I've only had one. I was 18 at the time and on my way to what turned out to be a disasterous blind date!
I was driving down a back road heading towards a main street when a police officer pulled me over and said that I was going around 10 miles over the speed limit. I was soo terrified that I got pulled over that my eyes started to well up with tears, & I started to shake. The officer was nice and told me to just slow down next time. He gave me a small ticket and sent me on my way. (I think it was only $25..but can't quite remember).
 

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Back in 1979, I got fined for driving 35 m.p.h. in a 35 m.p.h. zone - in the rain. I probably should have fought it, but the fine was small, and no points were involved.
More recently, I got stopped for driving 160 k.m.h. (100 m.p.h.) on a 130 k.m.h. stretch of the autobahn, but got off with a warning due to the lack of much traffic there at 6 a.m.. It probably helped that two or three cars had passed me, and also got stopped..
 

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Originally Posted by sharky

Okay, sorry I have to ask How fast were you going on the mtn bike and what was the speed limit?
That was an odd one that


I ended up taking it to court--apparently I was supposed to have been going 65kmh---on a mountain bike no less--when I was going downhill---now--Wonderland Rd by Sarnia Rd is at the beginning of a long relatively sloping hill---by the time I was stopped i was almost at Riverside Ave.--about a good 1.5 miles downhill. So, anyways, I took it to court whereupon it was laughed, literally, out of court---case dismissed.


I assume that I was just in his trap as someone was actually going through--and he caught me by mistake. lol
 
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So after calling a 2nd lawyer, he told me for $500 he will go to court and get it turned into a non-moving violation. Hubby got me a 3rd lawyer's name, closer to where I got pulled over, but also started a thread on the local car site about it. Everyone there suggested I show up in court and ask for a reduction to 2 points, which shouldn't affect my insurance, especially since it is a first time ever speeding ticket. So he figures I should probably save us the $500 and show up, pay a fine, take my 2 points and be on my way.

Usually I follow the 5mph over rule in town, and 8-9 over on the interstate (or jump in the center of a group of cars and roll with them!). Still kicking myself for not paying attention (I admit I really wasn't!) to how fast I was going and for not putting cruise back on 78mph.
 

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Having not incurred a speeding ticket in years, I can't believe what the fines cost these days!! I had been contemplating giving up street riding on my motorcycle (because most all drivers are wankers), and now I'm quite sure of it; one speeding ticket could pay for an entire track day!
 

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Here's a word to the wise:

Breaking a speed regulation (they aren't laws; that's an entirely different thing) gives a law enforcement officer an excuse to stop you. Unless everything is right on your car and in your behavior, you are exposing it to an investigation. We truckers have learned this; a favorite is for an officer to pull you over for one clearance light, or a the license plate light on the trailer, and then rake you over the coals for a dozen other things. In Alabama, if you get stopped, you will get a ticket. The officer will keep going until he finds something. The last time I got stopped there, they found the wrong VIN (one digit off) on one of my permits. $65 fine.

Save yourself grief. Obey the speed limit. One mph over is enough to stop you, if the officer wants to. No amount of saved time can justify the time lost and increased aggravation of going through an officer's scrutiny.
 
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