Are you sick of paying out money to allegedly corrupt law enforcement officials?
Speeding fines doubled, now this is something that will get your blood pumping…
Have you been a victim of a ticket when you really were not going over the speed limit?
Did you know that the speeding ticket fine is the least of your worries…
In almost every instance you will be punished twice for the same offense.
Yes, seems wrong but apparently the elected leaders in congress do not really care much for the regular joe or jane for that matter, when you get a speeding ticket, it does not stop with the fine and the points on your drivers license. You also have to pay the insurance companies in the form of higher premiums and in this tough economy, that is not something to take lightly, in some cases drivers are paying on average $1200.00 or more per year, on top of the regular insurance premium.
Yes, you read it right, get one speeding ticket and watch your insurance rates climb in some cases up to $1200.00 more per year, and that is just not one year, remember your driving record is reported on for three years, so the actual cost of a speeding ticket, is way more than the fine paid to a local city or court system.
Speeding used to be about someone driving unsafe, but with the economy and revenue of many cities that are facing budget deficits, in some places tickets have become a business instead of a safety device.
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“In some places, the average speed limit is set 10 to 15 miles below the actual safe speed for conditions,” Dornsife said. “It makes technical violators out of people otherwise driving safely.”
The idea that our law enforcement community are being turned into what could be termed a tax collection unit for the state or local municipality, is disturbing, because that means that instead of making the community safer for its tax paying citizens that community is actually becoming less safe, due to the very real fact that if an officer is spending 70 percent of his or her time writing speeding tickets in order to generate revenue for the city or state then how safe should you feel at night when you go to bed?
With drug dealers on every corner of most large cities selling crack and all kinds of other stuff you have to wonder about the folly of going after the law abiding citizens first because they are just easier to handle than a thug.
That is concerning, when you begin to see video camera being installed in motorists cars to prove legal behavior because of the abuse of a few enforcement officers, it is something that should be investigated.
When a citizen has to take steps to protect themselves from false statements of some law enforcement officers by providing video proof that they were not in violation or that they did not weave in traffic then you have a serious issue that needs to be examined by the federal government.
In one small Alabama district, an estimated 1000 tickets per month are processed at the rate of over $200 per violation that adds up to a huge amount of money every month, coming mostly from an interstate highway where the speed limit is posted at 55 mph and on both sides of this small town in Alabama, the speed limit is 70 mph when you see this type of issue you have to wonder about how safety is the main concern of the city.
It actually creates a very unsafe driving condition, because you have some drivers that are obeying the speed limit of 55 and then you have some that are doing 70 on both sides of this small town in Alabama, that is a 15 MPH difference in speed, this creates a situation where those drivers that are driving at a slower rate of speed, are in danger of being struck by faster moving drivers, this is dangerous and the city in which this has been done, could eventually end up being sued by a driver that gets hit by a faster moving driver, simply because you could argue that the city is intentionally setting the speed limit low in order to obtain revenue by issuing speeding tickets.
This is a problem in many places all around the USA.
If you have received a speeding ticket dont just lay down and pay the ticket fight it in court, yet is it going to be hard to do but that is what they expect, a certain number of people will just pay the fine, rather than having to take off from work, but the more serious concern here should be that insurance costs can double, for example, a driver who has no speeding tickets can pay $500 per year less in premiums, and when you get a speeding ticket it goes on your record for as long as 7 years in some instances, 3 years for most instances, which means that your going to pay around $1500.00 more for your Automobile insurance than other drivers, and that is on top of the speeding ticket fine which averages, around $300.00 per ticket.
Over all, it is becoming more common to fight the ticket rather than to just pay it, because of the high cost of insurance.
