| luvdodo |
How many of us here have or had driving tickets hooked onto our names, be it speeding or violation....
Let's check it out .......... |
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| luvdodo |
| Somekind of joke ? Someone has 10 or more tickets? Would that call for suspension of the license ? May be state dependent, right ? |
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| DaleB |
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Originally posted by luvdodo
Somekind of joke ? Someone has 10 or more tickets? Would that call for suspension of the license ? May be state dependent, right ?
The age range on this forum is somewhere between 20 and 70. A 20 year old on his fifth ticket, is a lot different than a 65 year old with 7. And is the spread over many years or recently, or earlier years only?
Too many variables for a simplistic question. At least if your objective is to draw some kind of conclusion. |
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| luvdodo |
That would be all tickets collected from the time one started driving. I guess it's true that the older groups might have a large number of tickets - a bigger possibility.
I guess the poll should have been designed to capture the age groups as well, then it would have made more sense.
Thanks Dale. :) BTW, are you 70 ? Well, just joking on an Saturday afternoon..on a ligther note. ;)
After I got my 1st ticket, I'll been just a bit cautious and lucky (I still do speed) I guess. I dread any addl. surcharge on my insurance bills. |
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| DaleB |
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Originally posted by luvdodo
That would be all tickets collected from the time one started driving. I guess it's true that the older groups might have a large number of tickets - a bigger possibility.
I guess the poll should have been designed to capture the age groups as well, then it would have made more sense.
Thanks Dale. :) BTW, are you 70 ? Well, just joking on an Saturday afternoon..on a ligther note. ;)
After I got my 1st ticket, I'll been just a bit cautious and lucky (I still do speed) I guess. I dread any addl. surcharge on my insurance bills.
I recently turned 60, and know I am not the eldest. And that is no joke :D |
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| luvdodo |
| Dale, very truly, I respect you. |
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| BWSmith201 |
No speeding tickets/other moving violations for me as of now (though I can't say I haven't deserved them on more than one occasion!)... just a few parking tickets... :rolleyes:
Fortunately, they don't get you too much for those! |
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| greatscot |
Have to confess, had 3 tickets over the course of umpteen years. Talked my way out of others, been awhile since the last one (touch wood :twak: ) Went to Traffic School on that one to avoid insurance hike.
Gone are the days where I could talk my way out with a "what the matter Constable"with ma brougue . . . |
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| luvdodo |
The one ticket I got was for speeding at 74 m is a 55m zone (As per the COP)
Here in the tristate/metro area, while driving down on I-95 (66m zone), there is a harbor Tunnel exit (55m). As soon as I took that exit, the COP caught me even before I could reduce me damn speed.
A few point and a $70 pinch! Wish I went to court!! |
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| eurohazard |
28 years old....very fast driver. Had one ticket when I was 18 for breaking traction, but he just gave me a no insurance ticket. I have had insurance every day since then.
2 tickets for doing 90 MPH in a 70 MPH zone. Both on I-40, one in Arkansas, one in Texas on separate occasions. I have been very lucky with cops. I always drive 90+ if traffic allows. |
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| BigDog |
Mr. BigDog has probably had a dozen or more tickets. We joke that he's taken traffic school so many times he could teach the class. Of course, he's been driving for over 25 years, but still. :rolleyes: There was one time he got three speeding tickets on his way to/from his job site in a 2 month period. One more and he would have lost his license for awhile. Can you say SPEED TRAP? Duh!
I've had two tickets in over 25 years of driving. One was for an illegal left turn that I used to make every day going home. Well, until I got caught anyway. I took traffic school to erase that one. The other one was a doozy, and there was no traffic school option in the county I got the ticket, at least back then. I was busted on my way back from a ski weekend doing 75 miles an hour in a 55 zone while passing in a no passing zone. No talking my way out of that one!
Both of mine were over 20 years ago, and I've been driving red cars since 1991. I don't exactly obey the speed laws either, but I'm not stupid about it.
Mrs. BigDog |
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| capjand4 |
MDX is my first car about 1.5 years ago. I was too used to the driving in Taiwan when I first got my car.
In Taiwan if you get a ticket, you will just pay for it and its a done deal; there is no suspension unless you were drinking. So I figure the worse case for me in America was to pay alot of money to the town court.
I was wrong, in the state a simple ticket might get your licence suspended, insurance goes up, and sometime in and out of the court.
I was paying $2250 for my insurance for 6 months(I was 19 in NY), so I was upset to find out that my insurance might go up due to the tickets.(actually it went down after switching to progressive.)
I still drive fast because I love the highways here, so straight, long and wide. But I am smarter now. |
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| srpbep |
Yup, some of us have been driving for a while. In my case, over 35 years (don't want to compete with Dale on years). So 10 tickets would not be ridiculous, less than 1 every 3 years which would not cause anyone to lose driving privileges.
Anyway, can't remember how many I have had over the years (benefit of getting older I guess). A couple are memorable:
1st ticket: Speed (don't remember exactly how fast but I was flying), failure to stop, failure to yield, left turn from right lane, right turn from left lane ... litterly everything on the ticket was circled except drunk and reckless. This was on some old country roads, I was driving a sports car (MGA 1600 twin cam) and I was involved in a high speed chase for lots of miles but didn't know it. Seems like they were chasing me but were having trouble catching me. Had I known I was being chased, then they would never have caught me!! Yup, I was very, very young.
Last ticket (some 8 years ago): I was driving my 1975 Bricklin SV1 on the freeway at 4:00 am doing 100+ mph (not sure how fast, was too busy watching the road). Then the sky lit up. The police officer observed that I probably hadn't noticed him when I flew by him on the right (oops). He initially thought I might be high because he pointed out that few people pass a BLACK AND WHITE with a BIG ARRAY OF LIGHTS ON TOP [sorta hard to miss]. I wasn't high, just focused on the road, and readily admitted that I would have slowed down VERY FAST had I noticed that the car was indeed a police vehicle. He was good sport and wrote me up for doing 79 in a 65 zone [bless his heart, got to go to trafic school]. |
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| srpbep |
My most expensive ticket was the result of illegal parking. I was young (25 ish) and illegally parked my almost new Vette in a shopping center.
** Officer told me to move it.
** I told him to write me a ticket (was leaving state, couldn't have cared less).
** I didn't know that he couldn't write me up on private property.
** Pissed him off no end.
** To make a long story short, I ended up getting arrested for "failure to depart" and "assualting an officer".
Cost was for the lawyer and flying from New York back to Ohio to go to court (seems like I had managed to escalate illegal parking into a felony -- oops). Anyway, found guilty of failure to depart (misdemeaner), found not guilty of assaulting an officer (that was the biggie), whole package ended up costing over $1,000 (and that was a lot of years ago). |
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| texrb |
I've been driving for 37 years and also have accumulated several tickets over that timeframe. I am not sure how many, but probably around 6 or 7 - all for speeding. I have not had a ticket in over 10 years - just luck I guess.
Most memorable one was when I was driving my '85 Porsche 944 in Seattle in 1985 and was just trying to pass another car to make an exit. I was driving 60 in a 55 and sped up to pass the car next to me - that car then sped up blocking me - so I slowed down, he slowed down. Well now I'm pi$$ed and dump it into 3rd and fly by the guy and move over to the right lane. Well there is a WA Hwy patrol 2 cars behind me and pulls me over. I am more ticked and pull over and hit the brakes while downshifting. I stop about 50 yards before the cop - he can't stop & flys by me & has to back up on the shoulder the 50 yards. (which ticks off the cop!)
He tells me he saw the whole thing and threatens a $500 ticket for doing 120 in a 55. I tell him to show me the radar (I was driving 78) which he couldn't do - he paced me he said. Ended up in court & the judge believed me, not the cop, but still made me pay for driving 78 in a 55 - $180 back then! |
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| frostyra |
| Well, if I'm not the oldest here, I'm close. I'm 68, and have been driving for 52 years. I got one ticket in a speed-trap town in western PA somewhere in the late '50s -- paid the $10 fine directly to the cop, and (wonder of wonders) it never got on my driver's license. I've been stopped and warned a few times, but never another ticket. I do my best to stay within 10 mph of the limit unless EVERYONE is screaming past me. And I'm ALWAYS polite to the cops (I consider them all to be good guys 'n gals). |
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