Highway Warnings

[CTMountaineer]

Originally Posted by GottaHerdOn

I am guitly of this too. But when I was at home and went to to Clarksburg, Fairmont or Morgantown.. I didn't drive 70. The traffic flow is anywhere between 75 - 85. For those turns and contstruction its just not safe. I got cought at that bridge near the saltwell exit on that long striaght between Clarksburg and Fairmont on 79 when I was 17. 91 mph in a full size SUV, which was stupid but I mean traffic was moving like 80-85. But he got me because I was the "leader of the pack." I'd say the speed factor has a lot to do with it being death valley too.

What was the fine, and how many points for going 91mph? Just curious.

Maybe our new National Savior will put up the road construction funds needed to improve roads in North Central to the point where they are sufficient to handle the steadily growing demand? It has become abundantly clear that we can't depend on the idiots who run the State Government in Charleston to do anything constructive. They brag about having a $50 million surplus while ignoring the most pressing problems that exist.

[GottaHerdOn]

Ha ha.. well I was 17 years old at the time, and already had 3 points on my license. So I only had 3 left, and with 91 being considered by some to be "wreckless" driving I was supposed to lose my license for having too many points. The ticket was going to be around $400 and something I think, and I don't even want to think about what our insurance would have been like since I had previously totaled two Grand Cherokee's even though I wasn’t ticketed in the accidents.

But luckily when you know the right people... or when your parents know the right people, those things tend to disappear. So I didn't lose my license or have to pay the fine.

ha ha I remember I wasn't going to tell my parents about it because I knew they'd flip. But my mom found the ticket in my room one day. I got home from school and my dad was there, which was weird, since it was normally a day he stayed in Fairmont that night. But he was all calm, and sat me down at the kitchen table, and then slammed the ticket down in front of me and the f bomb just came spewing out of his mouth.. ha ha ha

Hey we were all teenagers at some point.