I went skiing with my nephew tonight and was on my way home when I got stuck behind an older driver doing about 48 or 50. It was about 10:26pm and I wanted to get home quickly so I passed on a two lane and got up to about 77 and then was doing about 60 in a 55. I was laughing to myself about dusting that person while I continued a mile up the road. Slowed down to 45 as I entered the 45 and out of nowhere I saw these lights flashing behind me. It was a Dakota and was hoping it'd be a paramedic.

Oh crap, I told myself. I was hoping it was an emergency vehicle so I signaled and pulled over to the side of the road hoping that "emergency" vehicle would go buy. It didn't and instead pulled up behind me!:-staun Oh crap. I knew I'd be asked for my license and thought at first that I left it at home when I could find it in my center console. I was relieved that I found it as he came up and gave the usual "license and registration". I had a mess of towing and insurance papers in an envelope that I rummaged through and finally found that registration paper.

He said he clocked me going 72 back their. I was thinking back their? I went up the road over a mile before he caught up and I was doing 77!! I should have complimented him on his ability to catch up so quickly. He wanted to know what the hurry was and how fast the person was going that I passed. I thought I'd exaggerate a bit, but then decided just to tell the truth. The person was doing about 50 and I just wanted to get home. His reply, "I need to go back to the car." I managed to slip in an "I'm so sorry" and when he told me how fast I was going I said "I didn't know I got going that fast." I normally pass at full throttle and my truck halls so I get used to passing fast.

As he was in his car, I was thinking how I was going to get myself out of this and praying he'd give me a warning. I was also wondering how much the ticket would cost me and about my insurance. In less than a minute, he came back and said that he was going to give me a warning tonight. He told me to slow down and told me you could get killed going that fast. I said "thank you officer and told him I'd slow down" and was so relieved to be getting a warning. He told me to have a good night and before I could say anything else he walked away and turned off the light show. This Dakota had a light bar on it and all I could see was this super bright light behind me until he turned it off and I was able to pull out.

Yup, yours truly got away from a speeding ticket. I felt so lucky because I was really going fast for a 55. Thank goodness he didn't catch me going 77 and caught me going 72. Today wasn't the best day for me. You could think of this as making my day worse, but I think my day got better because I was pulled over and didn't get a ticket!

Anybody else get pulled over tonight? I normally point out the "light shows" as I travel and snicker as I go by. It felt different tonight being the one getting the "light show". I can't even remember the last time I was pulled over. It was 10:26 at night on a small rural highway. The cop was very young and was a really nice guy, but man don't these guys take the night off once in a while. I'm beginning to think that speeding in the day is better because most cops figure people will think that they aren't out as much at night and speed.

I am buying a radar dectector! Do those radar jamming license plate frames work? I didn't tell anyone I was pulled over when I came home. That will have to be my secret. I would be in big trouble with the wife.

 

It happens to the best of us. Glad you made it out ok.

XXL

 

You should have gotten a ticket. You knew the speed limit. Don't waste your money on a radar detector. Drive the speed limit and you won't need it.

 

Just another thought pipercub. Don't fly your airplane that way either. It will probably reach up and bite you.

 

Moved to proper forum.

 

I have only gotten one speeding ticket and that was last year. I was doing 79-80 on the interstate in a 65mph area. All the other cars were doing that same speed but all of them suddenly slowed down and I really didn't notice I was going that fast. There was a state trooper sitting on the inside shoulder where I guess he had just got done with pulling someone over. The thing is, I was about 3/4 of a mile past him when he finally turned on his lights. At first, I thought he was going after someone else, so I got in to the middle lane, and then he pulls in behind me. He ended up putting 74 mph on the ticket that he did give me.

What sucks is that people are always doing 85-90 or more on this particular intersection and I do 79 and get a ticket.

 

My wife talked her way out of a 72 in a 40 a couple years ago. She was driving a school Suburban loaded with kids going to a concert at 8:00 am on a Saturday. Cop let her off with a verbal warning and had her follow him to the school she was looking for. If it had been me I would have been handcuffed and the car searched.

 

Read the story below and then be thankful for not having a socialist government and pay your fine with a smile

 

Yeah, I should have gotten a ticket, but I'm glad I didn't. I was actually doing my normal 58, but then had to slow way down for an old lady. After I passed I slowed down by just letting off the gas and not slamming on the brakes to get back down to the speed limit, I was doing the speed limit when he pulled me over. He caught me while I was passing.

If people, mostly elderly people, would learn to drive atleast the speed limit, then people wouldn't have accidents passing or get pulled over after passing. All I want is someone to do atleast the speed limit on a two lane road where it's not so easy to pass. If I'm doing 58, I'll slow down and backoff if they stay at 55.

If anyone here drives really slow like that lady I passed, do everyone a favor and atleast go the speed limit. In the driver's manual it says that going the speed limit may save a life. Yeah, that can be thought of in two different ways.

1. Not going over the limit.
2. Not going fast enough.

I know it's a speed limit so you are limited to a certain speed, but I think people who go excessively slow should get a ticket more often. I think people who drive too slowly endanger people just as much as those who speed. People get frustrated when they have someplace to go and get stuck behind a slowpoke.

hreed- I don't get stuck behind old lady pilots that can barely see over the dash when I'm flying. I follow the rules and haven't ever had any problems.

dhermesc- Wow! Your wife was lucky she didn't loose her license.

 

My first ticket was for going 72 in a 50. The cop let me off with a ticket for 55 in a 50 (about $50). The speed limit on this road was too slow. A couple of years later, the speed limit was changed to 65. It was a road often travelled by high school students from the country like me. Many of them go in excess of 85 since the road was repaved. One 14 year old got picked up going 114 mph a year or so ago. He got another ticket somewhere else for a similar speed and lost his license. I kind of miss high school and that road. It is a long, straight, well-paved road. That made for some good racin.

 

There's a time when I didn't get a ticket, but someone who was getting annoyed by me did get one.

We're both cruising along the road, I am in the left lane because the exit is on the left. And I'm slowing down. This guy in a VW Rabbit is really on his horn behind me trying to get me to speed up. I'm on an off ramp lane! But the actual off ramp is coming up real fast, and it's a real tight hairpin turn. Anyway, this guy obviously doesn't know this stretch of road very well.

This off ramp I'm talking about, exits on the left, then hairpins back and over the highway to merge with a different highway about a 1/2 mile further. As I finally leave the highway, the idiot sees the lane "disappear" so over he goes, and cuts someone elso off.

While I'm on the overpass I see the guy in the Rabbit being pulled over by a cop for dangerous driving. The cop ALWAYS hides behind the overpass where he can't be seen, and anyone who drives through there even semi-regularly will know that.

The poor Rabbit driver didn't know that, and he got a honk from me going over the overpass. Ha ha.

 

i agree. as soon as traffic gets caught up behind a slow driver, everyone bunches really closely together, not leaving enough room in case of an emergency. its not safe to speed but neither is driving under the limit.

 

Moved to the right forum. Please put automotive discussion in the General Automotive Discussion section. Thanks...

 

My first ticket was in 1978, for doing 45 in a 35. The area should have a higher speed limit (very rural), but it's a trap, what can I say.

Last summer, I received my SECOND speeding ticket. Guess what? It was about FIFTY YARDS east of where I got the first one, on the exact same road! Some of us just never learn......

 

Never gotten a ticket. I always wondered what its like? I do my best to not give them a reason.

Sure I have blown by a few cops that were likely sleeping, and I had one of them light up his tires and get right on me, but he never flipped em on. This was in Maine, I assume he saw my MT license plate and let me go.