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About a lady speeding in a school zone: "If she'd been pulled over by a police officer, rather than having her speed tracked by a camera, she said she would have learned to adjust her behavior during school hours."
"If it would have been a police officer, I would have only gotten one," she told Fox 19. "Cause I would have known better."
HUH?
Last edited by Gimme3steps; 10-06-2012 at 07:27 AM..
She must mean the time period it took to receive the ticket. If you drive through the same school zone 3 times a day for a week, and speed through there each time, you might have gone through the zone for 3 days before receiving the first ticket in the mail...if that's the case, you've likely got 9 tickets coming...so I can understand the frustration.
The stupid thing is, what would make you think that speeding through a school zone was "ok" if you weren't going to get a ticket? It's not as if the school zones aren't designated, and the times clearly marked...so, either this driver had some sense of "elitism" or they were just plain stupid.
We have a speed camera down the street from me, which is in a school/park zone marked for 20 mph. According to the local police, they ticket at 10 over (30 mph). Average speed through the zone has since dropped from over 40 mph, to 25 mph. They still give tickets of course to the inattentive drivers who blow through the zone, but most of the residents are very aware of the speed camera...and a driver paying attention would note the flashing sign (School Zone) and the words (Enforced by speed camera) underneath. I guess I'm just a firm believer that people should spend more time driving, and less time doing all the other things in a car, and it'd be a safer world for everyone...and these speed cameras wouldn't be a big deal.
About a lady speeding in a school zone: "If she'd been pulled over by a police officer, rather than having her speed tracked by a camera, she said she would have learned to adjust her behavior during school hours."
"If it would have been a police officer, I would have only gotten one," she told Fox 19. "Cause I would have known better."
HUH?
So she doesn't know not to break the law unless she's caught doing it and is told not to do it again by a police officer?
What the heck kind of driver's ed do they have up there in Ohio, anyway?
I hear these kinds of excuses (it's all the police officer's fault that I got a ticket when I was speeding) and can only think, "Whine, whine, whine."
And then you get the treatment we see here. If you are a government employee or part of the educational system the ticket is excused. If you're not - tough luck. This holds true for red light and speeding cameras.
We are being told the practice will stop (yeah, right ), but not a word about collecting those previous fines that would now have additional fees added for lateness if you were Joe Blow.
Our school zone signs have a flashing yellow light that is on when the limit is in place (school hours) so if you miss it you really do deserve a ticket.
Funny comments from a person in a State where most drivers on the Interstate believe the speed limit is a suggestion.
I do not agree with her comments by the way, school zones are clearly marked 20MPH.
Yeah, but whining about an obvious natural consequence of something you chose to do when anyone who is behind the wheel of a car should know there are speed limits isn't very well thought of.
From my experience, if you see a sign that says photo enforced, you should heed the warning. That being said, kids and people should have been taught to look both ways before crossing the road. I understand the need for school zones but speed cameras take too long to be process. By the time someone "learned their lesson" they would have unknowingly gotten several tickets at the same location. That is the problem with speed cameras in general.
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The reason we are using speed cameras is very clear. If you hit a child going 20 miles per hour, the chance of survival is 95 percent; at 30 mph survivability falls to 65 percent; and at 40 mph there is only a 15 percent chance the child will live. We have clocked drivers going more than 50 mph in front of our elementary school and through residential neighborhoods," said Peskin.
The police and the school should also turn their attention to informing children to look both ways before crossing. I look at this comment and take it as the this police could care less about preventing children from getting hit in the first place but rather increase their chance of survival from getting hit.
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), but not a word about collecting those previous fines that would now have additional fees added for lateness if you were Joe Blow.
