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Never! And I'm turning 40! Doesn't mean I don't speed...just never been caught!
*knock wood*
Same here! I'm 20 and haven't gotten one (i've been "legally" driving since I was 16). But I am trying to slow down though!
I got one warning from a state trooper, and that was because I was weaving in & out of traffic (everybody was driving slow, or atleast to me they were!)
Guilty multiple times. One of the hazards of driving race cars. Everything else seems slow. You should expand the question to indicate,
10-20 over
21-35 over
36-49 over
50 or more over
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I have had about 8 speeding tickets in 35 years of driving. 3 of them were in Indiana- a state I have never lived in. I never speed there anymore. It is just too risky to drive fast there. My last ticket was in Georgia for 77 in a 50 (I-20 west) a few years ago. Went to court twice and got lucky because the cop didn't show up. Otherwise it would have been $377.
To be fair 55 miles per hour is a RIDICULOUS speed limit for our local freeways here in PA. 65 miles per hour is much more reasonable, and it is what the general flow of traffic moves at. Does anyone know why the meager 55 is so commonplace?
SWB, I'll agree with you about the 55 mph limit being too slow on most of PA's limited-access highways. However, IMHO, there are sections of the PA Turnpike where I believe 55 is almost too fast, especially for big trucks. And for every vehicle in bad weather.
I've gotten a ticket one time, though have been pulled over several times for speeding. The ticket I received was in a rural area of Arizona where I decided to coast down a mountain pass without hitting the brakes - when I reached the bottom I was nabbed at an admirable 92mph and was cited for "criminal speeding." I made the best of my court date, in a small town incentral Arizona, where I told the judge that a) my intent was not criminal and b) the $250 ticket was not within my budget at this time. The charge was dropped with the assignment of attending a traffic safety class for six hours on a Saturday, which I did. The class instructor was a cynical clown, and it was well worth my time.
To be fair 55 miles per hour is a RIDICULOUS speed limit for our local freeways here in PA. 65 miles per hour is much more reasonable, and it is what the general flow of traffic moves at. Does anyone know why the meager 55 is so commonplace?
You guys must be young 'uns. Back around '73 OPEC staged it's first "oil shortage". Lines at gas stations wrapped around the block....and prices DOUBLED to about 50some cents a gallon!
The morons in Congress adopted a national 55 mph speed limit to "save gas". It took many years to repeal it in most states.
I never waited in line for gas because my buddy had a Texaco station, and about a year earlier had asked me to help him over a rough patch. I invested 5 grand and became part owner of the station. Over the years, we bought the land, switched to Shell, modernized the place, put in a mini-mart, car wash, etc. In 2005 we sold the land for $3.5 million, of which I got half. I'm not a financial guy but my 5 g's grew to $1.75 mil in 32 years...is that good?
Anyway, I seem to remember trucker strikes over the "double nickel" speed limit....
On the contrary, once the federal speed limit was raised to 65, most states promptly raised their interstate speed limits to 65.
Okay, well I guess I can just speak for Virginia...it was YEARS before we ever saw 65mph again. And it's still 55mph on many Interstates when near a big town or city.
When did Congress raise it back to 65? I can't remember, but it was a LONG time....
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Does anyone know why the meager 55 is so commonplace? 
