After our Allegheny Club drive on Sunday where we were driving at a rather quick pace, I got stopped two miles from my office doing 64 in a 45 zone. There was no argument, just hand over my license and await my fate. To my surprise the officer knew of my business and dropped the speed down to doing 50 in a 45 zone. $117.00 but no points. Lets hear some of your ticket stories.

 

Long time since I had a ticket.


Rick got one last year for 48 in a 40! I was amazed he got a ticket vs a warning, since he had a clean record.

Our thought and others agree that the radar detector was a factor. The officer, may have taken it personally, and obviously, the radar detector did not help in this instance.

We sold the detector the next day,(as he had been stopped prior to purchasing the detector and no ticket was given) and a call to the right person made the ticket "go away" at a court appearance.

 

I haven't had a citation in a long time, so I don't really remember when. But a couple of years ago I was traveling along on the interstate out in the desert when I got a quick pop or two on the Escort -- it doesn't tell you where the radar is -- and so I'd brake quickly each time, thinking he was ahead of me. The patrol car was a good distance behind me (out of sight), and he came on up quickly and pulled me over. I handed him my license and papers, and he said I was speeding. I asked him how fast, and he didn't reply, but said that he had seen my brake lights go on every time he hit the radar pop. He was an obvious rookie and was a bit insulting, but I insisted that he couldn't cite me for putting on my brakes -- I needed to be sure I wasn't speeding when his gun was on. He said, "... how creative.., I hear that everyday..."

I just got a warning, but he really wanted to give me a ticket. Just didn't have any hard evidence. I thanked him, but he stayed right on my bumper for several miles...

When I got back home I ordered a Valentine One.

 

Have not been stopped in the S yet, keep your fingers crossed. But I was a real bad boy when I drove my Saab Turbo's. I was driving from Tewksbury to Springfield every week, so the ride got quite tirering and I was always anxious to finish it. Man, over 10 years I got at least 10 tickets, all on the pike. All the tickets were for driving in the low 70's when the limit was 55. If I had not had my Escort, the speeds would have been much higher. I got rid of the detector when I switched to a Toyota GTS and no longer had to go to Springfield each week. Crappy drive when you do it allot.

 

90 in a 45 zone - no ticket!

It was in a National Park and was tail-end charley in a group of 4 S2000s. We passed a pickup truck that was doing the 45 limit and as we accelerated away I noticed the pickup had exempt plates - a park ranger. His red and blue grill lights came on and I pulled over.

He took my license and sat in his truck for a bit, then came back, gave me a talking to, and let me go.

Why no ticket? I think there were 5 reasons:
- I have a clean driving record
- I grovelled appropriately
- I don't look like a trouble maker (hey, I am older than his dad)
- He didn't pace me or use radar - he just saw me fly by him and he was doing the limit
- He didn't want to hassle the paperwork or possible court date

The only other time I was stopped was by the State Patrol for 65 in a 50 - again, no ticket. Reasons - clean record, proper grovelling, and I was just leaving an autocross event. We had a good chat about driving, car handling, the S2000 in particular, safety, and leaving the crazy driving at the autocross course.

I've been fortunate, thank my lucky stars, and try not go too fast (too often )

 

Almost 20 years ago, I once got two tickets on the same day, in the same county. I was on a cross-country trip from Boston to Seattle. This was on the day I drove from Chicago to Sioux Falls. I had been going in the upper 90s, but I got a ticket for 94 in a 75 or some such thing. Maybe it was 89 in a 70? Anyway, I slowed down after that, but I had gotten so used to going fast that I didn't realize I hadn't slowed down enough. About 15 minutes later I got another ticket.

That one shook me, and I told the officer that I was getting a little hypnotized by the highway and I needed to pull off and take a rest. But we had just passed the exit. So he led me around one of those "official use only" u-turns and helped me get off the freeway, where I found a place to stop and eat. Still gave me a ticket, though.

That was in my old CRX days. These days I have cruise control in the cars, and rarely end up going faster than I realized on the open road.

I haven't had a ticket in about three years, which is one of the longest spans in my driving history. I think it's no coincidence that I started doing a lot of track driving at the same time. Going fast on the streets is so much less exciting than going fast on the track (and so much more unpredictable), that I just don't do as much of it as I used to.

On the other hand, 24 years of driving and only one accident on the street that was my fault -- it was within a month of getting the S2000, my first RWD car. "Snap oversteer" (ie. ran out of talent).

 

Haven't had a ticket in at least 20 years, probably because I don't drive that much.

 

When I got a ticket for not displaying a front license plate last year, I noted that I would put the plate on right now, that I had not had a ticket in Ohio in 44 years, and that perhaps I deserved a warning. The really young Highway Patroller snickered, gave me the $94 ticket, told me he didn't care if I put the plate back on, and told me he had me at 59 in a 55 mph zone (tail end of a 4 car convoy). I was not happy.

 

I just haven't been caught yet.

 

I got my first ever S2000 speeding ticket on May 1st, in Louisiana, on my way to Wintergreen Spring Fling in Virgina, for doing 81 mph in a 70 mph zone, on Interstate 20. I thought that was pretty good since I've driven over 100,000 S2000 miles since March 2001.

The fine was $197, but I opted to send a money order instead for $150 to the District Attorney so I can take traffic school here in Cali and not get it on my record. Once I pay for traffic school too, it will cost about the same as the fine would have. The woman on the phone, in the Lincoln Parish Sheriff's Office in Louisiana told me that Louisiana does share their information with Cali, and that they would request the Cali DMV to revoke my license if I didn't pay the fine or complete traffic school. The traffic schools here are always 8 hours and I only need a 4 hour course. I may just do an on-line course again, like I did last time I got a ticket in my '98 Odyssey van.