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Originally Posted by RussianBlue
Well Jeff, you are just fortunate that they don't give tickets for being butt ugly (car or driver) . . .
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Hey now, Jeff's car is not butt ugly. You'll hurt its feelings...
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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
Maybe we are becoming like the U.K., in that so many of their citizens have tickets (mostly photo radar) on their records that it just really doesn't mean much anymore. As a matter of fact, so many just ignore them, they tried to declare a "ticket amnesty" period where one could pay old tickets without additional late fines. Turns out no one did that, either.
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Last I knew, they also handed out points for speeding tickets. I believe that just three tickets was enough to suspend your license.
Looks like 3-6 points per offence depending on speed and possibility of instant disqualification. Offences (and hence points) persist on your record for 3 years. Accumulate 12 points at any time and your license is suspended for 6 months.
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The Law
Speed fines
Road Traffic Offences, Motoring Offences, Totting, Speeding, Disqualification
The bloody things are everywhere now! The worst are on dual carriageways or motorways - freeways - where you are happily cruising along at 60 or 70 (perhaps a wee bit more) and suddenly *BAM!* camera in your face - they have head on cameras triggered by plates in the road like a traffic light - or you pass under a gantry with a variable speed sign on it - bloody M25 - and think "Oh crap, was there a camera on the back side of that? What is the limit here and now anyway??" and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it.
Needless to say speed cameras are rather unpopular and I do hear stories of them being defaced and vandalized.
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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
As an aside, he mentioned that she has told him darn near 20% of all drivers we see on the road in Washington these days have suspended licenses. That sounds high to me. If it's really anywhere close to that, that alone should tell us all something about how over the top, out of control enforcement has become. I have a very hard time believing that one out of five drivers poses enough of a threat to the rest of us to actually yank their license. No way.
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That does sound high but whatever the number, what would be really interesting is a breakdown based on reason for suspension - speeding / DUI / whatever.