Ohio speeding laws ..??

[chance2jump]

Originally Posted by FloridaandOhio

Wayne in Wood COunty is another small town in Ohio where the cops are quite agressive about speeders going more than 5 mph over the speed limit.

Only because the cops have nothing better to do.... pretty small town!

[IonRedline08]

Originally Posted by chikaranotori

i remember once taking a trip to Toronto, Canada. on my way back through Pennsylvania (on rt. 90), i could see the sign ahead welcoming me back to Ohio. this guy next to me was jumping lanes and cut me off (i think he was from NY?) and of course, we were all speeding.

yeah, as soon as i got within 2 miles of that sign, i slowed down because i knew damn well the cops would be on the other side just hoping somebody either from another state or some Ohioan who wasn't paying attention would blow past.

The New Yorker flew on through--only to be stopped by the Highway Patrol. Welcome to Ohio!

This is so true. As someone who lived in Ohio but drove out of state frequently, I have seen this scenario many times. Going up through Marietta, I would say 9 out of 10 times I would see a cop just past the Welcome To Ohio Sign

[Traveler87]

Ohio is not near as bad as other states down south. Georgia and South Carolina they like to sit in between the little breaks in the trees, and they get people good that way. And when I go back home to Pennsylvania, they seem to get you for some of the dumbest things.

You want bad cops, head south. I always slow down when I get near those trees, because everytime I came up to a set of them, the of course was a cop.

[Buckeye in SC]

Originally Posted by Traveler87

Ohio is not near as bad as other states down south. Georgia and South Carolina they like to sit in between the little breaks in the trees, and they get people good that way. And when I go back home to Pennsylvania, they seem to get you for some of the dumbest things.

You want bad cops, head south. I always slow down when I get near those trees, because everytime I came up to a set of them, the of course was a cop.

They are quite sneaky down here, I've seen them numerous times in the median as you said behind a band of trees. That said, there is more volume as far as Highway patrol in Ohio & PA than here by far. Plus the speed limit here is 70, so you can go 75 and be fine, how much faster do you need to go!?

[IonRedline08]

Does anyone remember hearing about, at least 5 years ago, where one of the large insurance companies was sued and had to pay pack some premium monies because of the large volume of traffic tickets that Ohio issues? I remember hearing at that time that Ohio gave more speeding tickets than any other state.

A few years back on Memorial Day, I was heading up route 8 in Akron. I saw an SUV with its back hatch open and blinkers, looking like it was broken down. As I got closer, a police office was sitting in the back seat aiming a radar gun. As you passed him and went around a curve, there must have been 6 cruisers on the side of the road waiting to intercept those cars and another 4 or 5 pulled over.

[Buckeye in SC]

Originally Posted by IonRedline08

Does anyone remember hearing about, at least 5 years ago, where one of the large insurance companies was sued and had to pay pack some premium monies because of the large volume of traffic tickets that Ohio issues? I remember hearing at that time that Ohio gave more speeding tickets than any other state.

A few years back on Memorial Day, I was heading up route 8 in Akron. I saw an SUV with its back hatch open and blinkers, looking like it was broken down. As I got closer, a police office was sitting in the back seat aiming a radar gun. As you passed him and went around a curve, there must have been 6 cruisers on the side of the road waiting to intercept those cars and another 4 or 5 pulled over.

While Ohio highway patrol are ruthless, I have to say that I saw a similar thing in Charlotte 3 years ago on Memorial Day weekend. Just north of the city on I-77 about 4 or 5 cops were standing on an overpass w/radar guns, and there were another 4 or 5 cars ready to go on the on-ramp ready to nail people, and as you continued driving, there were like 3 cars already pulled over w/in a mile of the operation. I'm all for safe driving, but I think highway patrols are better off cracking down on aggressive driving i.e. tailgaiting, weaving in an out of traffic, a car going 10-15 MPH over the limit can still be doing so pretty safely - I mean when the speed limit is 65 or 70, it's not going to matter if you're in a crash whether you were going 70 or 80, you're probably going to die either way. Which is why they need to crack down on the morons who weave all the time.

[Crew Chief]

DEFINITELY watch your speed in Ohio construction zones; I've seen motorcycle cops as well as the regular state and county officers work the construction zones on I-75 and I-275 around Cincinnati really hard lately.