# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/61 "2012-12-13T14:28:55Z")
No speeding ticket in thirty years of driving. No parking fines either. Been pulled over for speed once - only me and the police car on the road (dual carriageway 3am) they let me off. Pulled over for just being generally suspicious more times than I can remember. But that’s what you get for driving round London in an old Transit after midnight. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/62 "2012-12-13T14:29:39Z")
I’m 49, never had a speeding ticket. I did get one ticket for rolling through a stop sign about 10 years ago but that’s my only moving violation. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/63 "2012-12-13T14:31:11Z")
It was 17 years ago in Indianapolis. I was on a road trip from Tennessee to Wisconsin. I was clocked 72 in a 55mph. I failed to slow when the limit dropped from 65 to 55 as I reached Indy. I had just been providing CPR at an accident scene south of the city. I was quite a sight, with some vomit and blood stains on my shirt. My mind was elsewhere and I still had 6 or 7 hours to go on my drive. I wasn’t paying attention to my speed. The officer noted I looked like hell and asked a lot of questions. He took my license and went back to his car to call it in. He came back, asked few more questions about the accident scene I was at earlier. Back and forth. Then he came back, thanked me for the assistance I rendered earlier, and handed me a ticket. I took his suggestion to get off the road for a while until my head cleared. ---
**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, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/64 "2012-12-13T15:23:35Z")
> [@Iggy](#): > > It was 17 years ago in Indianapolis. I was on a road trip from Tennessee to Wisconsin. I was clocked 72 in a 55mph. I failed to slow when the limit dropped from 65 to 55 as I reached Indy. > > I had just been providing CPR at an accident scene south of the city. I was quite a sight, with some vomit and blood stains on my shirt. My mind was elsewhere and I still had 6 or 7 hours to go on my drive. I wasn’t paying attention to my speed. > > The officer noted I looked like hell and asked a lot of questions. He took my license and went back to his car to call it in. He came back, asked few more questions about the accident scene I was at earlier. Back and forth. > > Then he came back, thanked me for the assistance I rendered earlier, and handed me a ticket. I took his suggestion to get off the road for a while until my head cleared. I can’t believe in light of the mitigating circumstances that he still gave you a ticket. What a jerk. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/65 "2012-12-13T15:27:55Z")
It had been fourteen years until two months ago ☹ Those four-lane roads with 30 mph speed limits will nail you. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/66 "2012-12-13T15:56:44Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > I can’t believe in light of the mitigating circumstances that he still gave you a ticket. What a jerk. There was an option to pay and not get points on my license. Not sure if that was a favor from the cop or it would have been available anyway. As a way to get off the road I ended up showing up unannounced at the home of my great aunt. She is not someone I know well and she certainly did not recognize me. I must have talked a good talk as she let me in to get cleaned up and I stayed the night. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/67 "2012-12-13T15:59:47Z")
I’ve never gotten one in 22 years of driving. ---
**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, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/68 "2012-12-13T16:16:17Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > I can’t believe in light of the mitigating circumstances that he still gave you a ticket. What a jerk. I had the same reaction. Wow. ---
**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, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/69 "2012-12-13T16:19:15Z")
> [@Iggy](#): > > There was an option to pay and not get points on my license. Not sure if that was a favor from the cop or it would have been available anyway. > > As a way to get off the road I ended up showing up unannounced at the home of my great aunt. She is not someone I know well and she certainly did not recognize me. I must have talked a good talk as she let me in to get cleaned up and I stayed the night. I’m sure the vomit and blood on your shirt helped your cause! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/70 "2012-12-13T16:43:38Z")
I was seventeen, so this year it’s been exactly twenty years. I’ve never gotten one since. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/71 "2012-12-13T16:49:00Z")
About 10 years ago in the middle of rural fucking nowhere. I was going 90 KPH in a 60 KPH stretch on my way to work at about 8:30 AM. I will never get another speeding ticket. I drive about 15% over the posted limit and don’t even get looked at. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/72 "2012-12-13T17:03:32Z")
9 or 10 years ago, and it’s my one and only speeding ticket, and only my 2nd ticket overall (ran a red after a rather long yellow that I thought I could make it through). I’m still annoyed by the speeding ticket- it was one of those money-making speed traps where the cops pick a straight, flat and long secondary street with very few cross-streets on a bright, clear, sunny day, and then radar people on foot from a church parking lot. So basically they set up on a street without heavy traffic that’s very easy to speed on (straight as an arrow and flat as a pancake, little cross traffic and no lights or stop signs for about a mile and a half) on a day with no weather or visibility hazards, and set up in such a way that they were very hard to spot in a unconventional location. Seems to me that the point wasn’t to deter anyone from speeding, but rather to write a bunch of tickets, and that kind of thing pisses me off. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/73 "2012-12-13T17:49:40Z")
51 and have never had a speeding ticket. The closest I ever came was a warning for blowing a stop sign, accidentally, on a empty street. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/74 "2012-12-13T18:59:01Z")
> [@chiroptera](#): > > Last month I got my first speeding ticket in 17 years. ☹ Same here! (I got my license 17 years ago) I was driving home from Georgia, the last hour of a 22-hour trip, and I zoned out and got lead footed. And caught. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2012, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/75 "2012-12-13T20:20:15Z")
40 years - Easter vacation, 1972 on the Jersey Turnpike going from NY to Philly to see my girlfriend, now wife. Caught in a speed trap where they flagged down pretty much everyone in the left lane. Only one other moving violation since then, none in the 16 years I lived in California. My method - never be the fastest car on the road. ---
**Author:** ![luv2draw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@luv2draw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luv2draw)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2012, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/76 "2012-12-14T00:14:10Z")
No tickets in 45 years of driving except for a couple of parking tickets. Got pulled over only once (about 5 years ago) for exceeding a local speed limit but the police officer talked himself out of giving me a ticket. 😃 I pretty much don’t drive over the limit whether anyone is there to see or not. Just the way I’m wired. ---
**Author:** ![luv2draw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@luv2draw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luv2draw)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2012, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/77 "2012-12-14T00:26:02Z")
> [@bump](#): > > 9 or 10 years ago, and it’s my one and only speeding ticket, and only my 2nd ticket overall (ran a red after a rather long yellow that I thought I could make it through). > > I’m still annoyed by the speeding ticket- it was one of those money-making speed traps where the cops pick a straight, flat and long secondary street with very few cross-streets on a bright, clear, sunny day, and then radar people on foot from a church parking lot. > > So basically they set up on a street without heavy traffic that’s very easy to speed on (straight as an arrow and flat as a pancake, little cross traffic and no lights or stop signs for about a mile and a half) on a day with no weather or visibility hazards, and set up in such a way that they were very hard to spot in a unconventional location. > > Seems to me that the point wasn’t to deter anyone from speeding, but rather to write a bunch of tickets, and that kind of thing pisses me off. Pretty much hate those scenarios myself. Had a job for 7 years where when coming home I would get on a local road like that after driving on a major road with traffic lights with a limit of 55. The local road was 40mph for a couple of blocks then abruptly dropped to 25. Grrrrrrrrrrr… If you weren’t paying extreme attention, you’d get nailed. There was always someone in front of me who did. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![azraiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@azraiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/azraiel)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/78 "2012-12-14T01:12:47Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Wow…in 1990? That seems well before the whole campaign to “click it or ticket” and all that. Was this in America? Yep. [Kansas](http://kansasstatutes.lesterama.org/Chapter_8/Article_25/8-2503.html). IIRC the law was amended in '89 to require that front-seat passengers had to be belted (and the amendment history at the bottom of the statute seems to bear that out). Traffic laws are usually implemented July 1 the year fallowing passage, so it would have been just six months old when I was cited (December 31, 1990). $10 fine. I was 14 and my friend driving had just turned 15. You could get your restricted license at 14 at the time–to and from work, to and from school, and in the course of farm work. My friend and I were both farm kids, and we made the “farm work” clause do a lot of heavy lifting. I don’t recall what story we spun, but we convinced the officer that we were, in fact, engaged in the course of farm work at 10pm on New Year’s Eve in downtown Hays, KS. The only ticket the driver received was a seat belt citation of his own. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2012, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/79 "2012-12-14T01:27:27Z")
I’ve never gotten a ticket but just today I think I may have been caught by one of those traffic cams. It was yellow when I started into the intersection but it’s a huge intersection. I know it was red before I was past the line. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2012, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871/80 "2012-12-14T02:27:21Z")
Been driving for 59 years. No speeding ticket. Got a no left turn ticket (at 2AM with no other car in sight) about 50 years ago, a well-deserved stop sign violation about 10 or 15 years, and one for running a red, maybe 55 years ago. And a handful of parking violations. That’s all folks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-years-has-it-been-since-youve-gotten-a-speeding-ticket/643871.md?page=5)