You obviously need to sell me your car at a steep discount, well, because you aren't enjoying it any longer. My son will appreciate it very much as he won't have to keep harassing me about getting mine.

Sorry to hear about your incident, OP. Unfortunately traffic enforcement typically boils down to "revenue generation". Speed limits are typically set such that they aren't appropriate for the road conditions, thus frustrating drivers and getting them to exceed the limit. We have several 35mph posted zones in my area that are very long, very straight, four lane roads with large center medians and little to no elevation changes, etc. There are few to no side streets, so the road would optimally be considered a freeway/highway (at least an expressway), yet the limit keeps getting cranked down 5mph every time they get a chance.

 

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The tiny village of Linndale, Ohio, just on the border of Cleveland on I71 is an infamous speed trap for -- wait for it -- ticketing cars exceeding the speed limit. The speed limit does NOT change there, it is exactly the same as the other stretches of road but only Linndale enforces it. I don't recall access to I71 in Linndale!

Same for Newburgh Heights village just south of Cleveland on I77 where there is at least an exit/entrance to I77. No change is speed limit there either, just change in enforcement. When Ohio (voters? supreme court?) ruled automated speed camera tickets invalid Newburgh hired several new policeman to work new cameras. These can pick out and ticket multiple cars in a manner of seconds. They don't make any attempt to stop these cars just send a ticket in the mail a couple of weeks later. All in the name of safe, of course.

Coming to a community near you! Ka-ching!

-- Chuck

 

I never got a speeding ticket that I did not deserve. Pretty hard to argue with the officer so I try to be nice about it and hope he knocks it down a bit.

The only ticket I refused to pay was in a small town in New York State. The Police officer could not tell me the amount of the ticket after the citation was issued to me, this is unheard of hear in my home country, our cops can tell you the entire charge on the spot and it is written on your ticket. It took the county in NYS over 3 months to tell me how much I owed them, even after countless calls that I put into the clerk's office. They kept telling me that the head "clerk" would make a decision on the amount of the charge and they would send it to me by mail, they had a range of possible costs and that they could use their discretion to determine the amount. It was like dealing with Boss Hog from Hazard county, what an ass backwards county if I ever seen one, corruption with a capital C. Screw them I refuse to give into that kind of corruption so they won't see a penny from me. I was willing to pay the charge in full on-line on the day it happened but they pulled their little stunts and refused to tell me the exact charge, so screw them.
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Perhaps you should have tried what I did years ago?

At the bottom on a long, fast down grade just east of Sault Ste. Marie (ON) the OPP were pulling a long line of cars over and walking down the line handing out speeding tickets -- yeah we were rolling down the hill!. I asked the trooper if Canada had an extradition treaty with the US for speeding tickets. He rechecked my license plate and sent me on my way laughing. He knew it wasn't worth the effort. Ohio and Ontario plates were both blue on white then and it wasn't the first time my Ohio car was confused for an Ontario car.

-- Chuck

 

he, he, nice escape on that one. Good for you putting that question to the cop

Ontario does have reciprocal agreements with New York State, but they have never tracked me down about this outstanding ticket and it has been a couple years. I figured as backwards and low tech that county was, they haven't figured out they could chase me in Ontario, good thing I wasn't stopped by a New York State Trooper, it was just a cop in a small town/county ?