At what speed do you have to be going to get pulled over on 75/85? (Evans: law, speeding tickets)

[myspoonistoobig]

So the signs say 55. Which is funny because I get passed on both sides by people going at least 70. It seems like most people just put it on cruise at 70 mph. I've even been passed by cops when I was doing 65 and they had to have been going at least 10 mph past that.

How fast do you need to go to get a ticket? Not that I'm trying to get one, but I feel like people speed like crazy down here and get away with it.

[ecuresident]

I think anything over 70 and you get puled over. Honestly the speed limit needs to be changed to 65.

[PKCorey]

If it is 55, they won't stop, if you aren't going over 75.

If it is 65, they won't stop you unless you are over 81.

[BeyondInfinity]

I have been pulled over by cops in DeKalb and Fulton counties for doing 75, but they usually let me go with a warning and they have even told me that if I keep it at 70 they will not bother me.

[Born 2 Roll]

From what I understand, because Georgia once had a really bad national image problem with speed traps set up by local (often small-town) police departments so that their small city and town governments could collect large sums of revenue from ticky-tack speeding tickets (like going 56 mph in a 55 speed zone, for example...hence the technical term "Ludowici Speed Trap" named after the small town with notorious speed traps in Southeast Georgia), Georgia state law prevents municipal police departments (city police and county police and sheriffs departments) from ticketing drivers for speeding unless they are going more than 10 mph over the posted speed limit in most (but not all) cases.

Many larger and understaffed local police departments (but not all) add onto what the state mandates and abstain from pulling over or ticketing drivers for speeding until they are going more than 15 mph over the posted speed limit on surface roads and more than 20 mph over the posted speed limit on expressways.

Many larger and understaffed police departments in general (including the Georgia State Patrol) also don't like to pull over drivers for speeding unless they are doing more than 15 mph over the posted speed limit on surface streets and roads and more than 20 mph over the posted speed limit on expressways because they don't like to expend the limited manpower they have to cite lesser speeding violations (less than 15 mph over the posted speed limit) that don't bring in as much revenue to government coffers as larger speeding violations (more than 15 mph over the posted speed limit) do.

Link to information about the notorious Ludowici speed traps of the mid-20th Century that led to a change in Georgia State Law:
http://www.atlantatimemachine.com/misc/ludowici.htm

[gerrythesnake]

84 mph

[J2rescue]

Something approaching the speed of light.

Really though, it seems to me that the general unwritten rule is that you have to be around 20mph over the speed limit for them to even bother. Its the same on 400 which I travel often these days. There are often police there with radar guns and I know I have to have been clocked at 75-80 in a 65 speed limit area numerous times with no issues.

[MattCW]

I believe the restriction on local jurisdictions pulling people over only applies to data collected by radar and VASCAR, they can still pace you.

[PKCorey]

Originally Posted by J2rescue

Its the same on 400 which I travel often these days. There are often police there with radar guns and I know I have to have been clocked at 75-80 in a 65 speed limit area numerous times with no issues.

Same here except I'm on 20 or 285 on the Southside. I"ve blown by Dekalb at Turner Hill or Evans Mill Road doing 78-80 and I'm expecting to be chased down and nothing....

ITP on 20, they will pull you over once you cress 75 or higher.

[smb90]

I've blown by the police on 75 ITP doing 75 mph and have never been pulled over, but I don't think I'd go over that because they're always pulling people over on that highway