^lol, wtf $90? Thats $290 here, if they dont hit you with everything else in the book.
For a while (maybe still the case), Mass had the highest rate of traffic violations… they try their best to take your money at any oppurtunity here
so 29mph over, you get a $90 fine…and 1mph more than that, you lose your $60,000 car? That’s fair.
Seriously. And it would seem at 23mph you owe $155 instead of $90 at 29mph? Huh?
You do find good cops around the place.
For example I had some douche pull out in front of me and proceed to do about 10kms under the limit (I was travelling 10 over at the time). We hit a school zone which is back down to 40. There happens to be a set of lights which were red. Just enough time for me to forget that it’s a school zone and get pissed off at the speed at which this idiot was taking off at. Traffic setup perfectly for an undertake, which I did. Next thing I know there is a cop on the side of the road pointing at me telling me to get over.
Only thing to do was take the next side street and sit and wait. About 10-15 minutes later the cop wanders around the corner and genuinely looks surprised to still see me sitting there.
Ended up getting a telling off for do 30 over and a warning instead of instantly loosing my license for 3 months.
over 29 mph and lose your car for good? That can’t be right can it? how is that legal to take a fine that is variable based on the value of the perpetrators vehicle? I need to check Texas laws, I have been 30+ over too many times, of course it is always on the highway when absolutely nobody is around and very rare, but scary to know that my car could be stolen from me.
Yeah that wasn’t right apparently. If it’s street racing, you lose your car for good. They auction it off and you lose your license.
30 over: Class B misdemeanor, which has a penalty of up to six months jail and mandatory $1500 fine
40 over: Class A misdemeanor. up to one year in jail and a mandatory fine of $2500.
Yeah, I ran into all types of cops around my way. Fortunately some are my friends. I actually had one block the road for me so he could see me race another car… Another I used to go to the track with regularly.
I got caught for doing 44Kmh over the speed limit, It cost me $650 and loss of license for 3 months. If he had booked me for 1 more over I would have lost it for 6 months and got a $1000 fine.