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I'm sorry, but I've had enough. I was driving in a "school zone" at 4:28 PM. I was going the speed of traffic, I was going on a major street in my city, there was no "pedestrians" around, and it was, I repeat, 4:28 PM. School was long, long over. But, ok, if the speed limit was 20 and I was going 45, then I would understand getting a ticket, but no, I was going 27 miles per hour at 4:28 PM with no pedestrians on a major road in my city when school was almost 1:30 hours out of session and I get slapped with a speed limit for speeding in a "school zone". From research, apparently, DURING SCHOOL HOURS, going at 26 is a ticket. So, I was one mph above that an hour and a half after school ended, going the speed of traffic. This all makes sense. While my city has one of the highest murder rates in the country, with gangs roaming the city untouched, I am slapped with a ticket for this.
Usually school zone speed limits are only effective when lights are flashing (usually when students get to school and when they get out) and then goes back to regular speed limit.
Usually school zone speed limits are only effective when lights are flashing (usually when students get to school and when they get out) and then goes back to regular speed limit.
Not sure how your area works.
I don't remember even seeing the lights flashing, but at 428 they couldnt have been. I'll see the city in court, though, because I aint accepting this bogus ticket without a huge fight.
My daughter got a school zone ticket at 2AM a few years ago, traffic stop. I received 2 camera tickets when I went through one at 5:30 two days in a row. My youngest daughter got two camera ones in one day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, at the same place when schools were closed for Easter.
If the speed in the zone drops it may be in effect all the time and not just during school hours.
I got a ticket once for 58 in a 55 in Missouri. Cost me $80. If I had contested it and drove back to the area and missed a day's work, it would have cost me more. I think they counted on that.
Just went and checked. They have a speed limit sign with 35 and then literally right after that they have a "school zone sign" till 4:45 (where you literally have to stare at the sign to see what it says!!! I'm sorry, but do high schools now have night sessions?? In my wildest dreams I never would have thought that going 27 at around 4:30 on a major road with no pedestrians around would give me at ticket. When I went out to check I noticed that the "speed of traffic" was around 30 mph right around that school zone, so if anything, I was going below the speed of traffic when I hit the school zone. 17 f'ing minutes later and I would have been clear. It's so ridiculous and quite frankly, criminal. And its not even like a police officer stopped me, it was a f'ing camera. City spends all that money on cameras while the real criminals run wild. Again, great job Mr. Mayor, you "got" me.
High schools don't have night sessions, nut I know from experience that it's common for students involved with sports and other extracurricular activities to be at school well beyond 5:00.
High schools don't have night sessions, nut I know from experience that it's common for students involved with sports and other extracurricular activities to be at school well beyond 5:00.
I know I was being facetious. If school zones apply to sports, then they need to be in place till 6:30! I'm pretty sure the point of a school is for right before and after school and school hours. What's next, having school zones apply for when schools play athletic games at night? Bottom line, it's criminal.
I'd fight it. The judge may give u some leeway since it was only 1mph over the limit. I think this falls within the +/- margin of error of the officers radar gun.
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!!! I'm sorry, but do high schools now have night sessions?? In my wildest dreams I never would have thought that going 27 at around 4:30 on a major road with no pedestrians around would give me at ticket. When I went out to check I noticed that the "speed of traffic" was around 30 mph right around that school zone, so if anything, I was going below the speed of traffic when I hit the school zone. 17 f'ing minutes later and I would have been clear. It's so ridiculous and quite frankly, criminal. And its not even like a police officer stopped me, it was a f'ing camera. City spends all that money on cameras while the real criminals run wild. Again, great job Mr. Mayor, you "got" me.
