Re: Speeding tickets (WOB)

["Chris Dinsmore" <dinsmoc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mitchell,

I've never recieved a ticket, but I have had about five warnings,all of them
on state highways, including one I got after being pulled over for doing 70
in a 35 zone at 3am (my house had just burned down and the officers were
sympathetic). I have never been puled over on an interstate or major
highway. I dont know about other states, but on the major highways in
Massachusetts the fast lane is generally moving at 75, so usually I dont
feel like going faster than traffic. In Mass the fundamental speed law
applies "A motorist should always travel at a speed which is safe and
consistent with the traffic around them", so I have driven right by state
troopers at that speed with no problem.

Chris Dinsmore
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- -----Original Message-----
From: mitchell ma <mwma@domain.elided>
To: bmw-digest@domain.elided <bmw-digest@domain.elided>
Date: Thursday, October 15, 1998 11:26
Subject: Speeding tickets (WOB)


Michel Potheau writes:

> Most young drivers average a ticket every year or so.
>
I presume Michel is referring to "speeding" tickets. So let's take an
informal poll. What would be considered the average out there in
digestland? How many speeding tickets a year do you get? I average about
one a year. I don't consider myself a reckless driver, but I do exceed
the speed limit on occasion, ie when the traffic volume allows it. For
me, the satisfaction I get is worth the risk of the occasional ticket.
And it's usually my fault because I wasn't paying enough attention. I
pay the ticket, I treat it as the price of admission to my amusement
park. BTW, I attend track events as time/money allows, so it's not as if
I have this pent-up adrenalin waiting to burst each time I start my car.
Is one ticket a year excessive? How about some of the more rabid drivers
out there? Please, no judgements, or flames. And let's leave road rage
and any other such negativity out of the discussion. This is about fun,
right? Speed doesn't kill, ignorance does.

Mitchell Ma
89 535iA (270,000kms, radar detector OFF)
BMWCCA
BMWACA
BMWCCBC

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