# How many years has it been since you've gotten a speeding ticket? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 12, 2012, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871 "2012-12-12T23:16:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/21 "2012-12-13T00:23:02Z")
Couple of months ago, caught by a camera. I still don’t know where the sign is dropping the speed limit to 25. I’ve had two before that, once doing 70 in a 50, the cop knocked it down to 59, so it was just a fine and no points. That was about 20 years ago. I got another for 65 in a 55 about 17 years ago. I think that was no points as well. I deserve more, but I usually get warnings. Cops like me for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![tellyworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@tellyworth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tellyworth)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/22 "2012-12-13T00:23:23Z")
Zero speeding tickets in 19 years. Two parking tickets, that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/23 "2012-12-13T00:23:43Z")
1981, 30 in a 20, and it was completely unfair. They dropped the school zone start time from 3:15 to 2:45 but didn’t activate the blinking light. First day of the change I got a ticket. Can you tell I’m still annoyed? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/24 "2012-12-13T00:23:46Z")
I’m 43, never had a speeding ticket. I generally stay within the speed limit but some of it must be luck. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/25 "2012-12-13T00:29:59Z")
I got one maybe ten years ago. I got a red light ticket last year. I’ve gotten lots of parking tickets / expired things. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/26 "2012-12-13T00:33:08Z")
1994 or 1995, I think. ---
**Author:** ![ChickaPicosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@ChickaPicosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChickaPicosa)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/27 "2012-12-13T00:34:29Z")
I got my first (and only) speeding ticket last January. I was 27 at the time. The only reason I went out that day was to drag my butt to the clinic. Cop wouldn’t let me off with a warning, but damn it, it was too cold for cleavage! ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/28 "2012-12-13T00:37:51Z")
> [@ChickaPicosa](#): > > I got my first (and only) speeding ticket last January. I was 27 at the time. The only reason I went out that day was to drag my butt to the clinic. Cop wouldn’t let me off with a warning, but damn it, it was too cold for cleavage! Some (myself included) would argue that there’s no such thing…in fact, it’s a _better_ time for cleavage because can haz THO to go along with it. ---
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/29 "2012-12-13T00:41:40Z")
I get a ticket every 2-3 years, it seems. Last one was this spring. I was on a long road trip that I’ve made several times. I got on a highway that I knew had a speed limit of 75 mph, and accelerated to 80 mph. There was no other traffic nearby. Next thing I knew I’m getting pulled over. I pull over right in front of a speed limit sign that says 75. Cop informs me that the preceding stretch of highway just before the onramp has a speed limit of 65. Oh well. Previously, I got a ticket for doing 50 in a 35 mph zone at the ring highway around the airport. It was the middle of the night, there was no one around, and while the limit makes sense when the airport is crowded because the traffic pattern is complicated and there are lots of onramps, it was absurd to be in the middle of a huge empty highway doing 35 at 2 AM. ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/30 "2012-12-13T00:47:04Z")
0.5 [Here](http://forums.pepipoo.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=70481&view=findpost&p=701474) is the ticket. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/31 "2012-12-13T00:48:24Z")
I’ve never gotten a speeding ticket. Or a warning. Or a parking ticket. I’m such a goody-goody behind the wheel. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/32 "2012-12-13T00:48:56Z")
I got one when I was 18. I was, quite literally, driving home from having purchased my very first car, not long after I got my license. Certainly shaped my driving from there on out. That was the only one I’ve ever gotten. I’m 37. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/33 "2012-12-13T00:51:05Z")
I think I’ve had three in 49 years, all for basic speed violations. ---
**Author:** ![kaiwik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaiwik/32/3978_2.png) [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/34 "2012-12-13T00:53:53Z")
I got all my speeding tickets in 1978, the year I got my license. My car was a 1967 Impala, and she wanted to _run_! I slowed down one ticket shy of losing my license, and have been a safe driver ever since. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/35 "2012-12-13T00:55:33Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I’ve never gotten a speeding ticket. Or a warning. Or a parking ticket. I’m such a goody-goody behind the wheel. How long have you been driving? We’re trying to establish some records here! You might win the booby prize! ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/36 "2012-12-13T00:57:37Z")
> [@moorland reiver](#): > > I got all my speeding tickets in 1978, the year I got my license. My car was a 1967 Impala, and she wanted to _run_! I slowed down one ticket shy of losing my license, and have been a safe driver ever since. Silly. A 1967 Impala (at least given a 350ci engine) would easily outrun any mid-1970’s cop car. You said she wanted to _run_…why didn’t you run? 😉 You could have pulled the “outdistance the cop until you find a nearby side street, pull into a random driveway and cut your lights” manuever! ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/37 "2012-12-13T01:24:20Z")
Got one back in '87; that’s it for speeding. (Other than that, just a “failure to obey signal” over 5 years ago and a few for not having up-to-date registration on my not-then-working car in an apartment parking lot maybe a dozen years ago.) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/38 "2012-12-13T01:27:00Z")
1. I was going around 90 down a long straight stretch of I-5 north of Redding. I saw the CHP car light up when it was still way behind me. I was able to pull over and have my license out and ready before he got up to my window. I admitted to going 90, he wrote me up for 74…saving me some money on paying off the ticket. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/39 "2012-12-13T01:27:07Z")
1. No speeding or parking tickets, but I don’t drive all that often. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/40 "2012-12-13T01:32:03Z")
Got a warning for speeding in 1998. 2000 I got nailed for running a light. That ticket got my attention. I’ve never risked a “rolling stop” again. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871.md?page=3)