Posts tagged "speeding tickets"

The next time you are driving and see a sign warning you of construction ahead, you might want to double check your seat belt. Police in North Carolina are setting up stings by posing as construction workers on many roads in order to catch people who are speeding, drunk drivers, people who are not wearing their seat belts, and many other traffic violations.

It may not seem fair to most drivers. Can police dress up as construction workers in order to spot law breakers? Unfortunately they can, according to one professor at Elon University School of Law. Just as police officers can go undercover to investigate a crime, they can also dress in construction or plain clothes to spot drivers breaking the law.

Chances are that every person has driven over the speed limit at one time or another. The tendency to speed may increase on certain stretches of road. In North Carolina, drivers were frequently driving over the 55 mph limit on the Wade Avenue Extension. Until recently, many of those drivers were getting speeding tickets, even if they felt they were driving safely.

Recently, the Department of Transportation confirmed that drivers were able to drive at higher speeds on this road and stay safe. The road is wide and straight. There are no parked cars or pedestrians present and historically there have been relatively few crashes related to high speeds. The DOT has responded by increasing the posted speed limit from 55 to 60 mph.

For those of us who are fans of the road trip, we may spend a lot of time driving outside of North Carolina. The more time we spend on the road, the more likely we are to eventually face a speeding ticket. But how are we affected by our brushes with the law when we are far away from home? Will anyone really know if we don't pay that out-of-state ticket?

Unfortunately, the answer is almost certainly yes. North Carolina is one of 45 states that have agreed to report out-of-state traffic violations to one another. Under the Driver License Compact (DLC), these 45 states report traffic violations to the home state of the driver who received it. Most of the states agree to prosecute drivers at home for the out-of-state offense.

More people travel during Thanksgiving than any other holiday of the year. More drivers will be on the roads during this coming weekend than during Christmas or the Fourth of July. And those drivers can be sure that North Carolina police officers will be waiting to catch them speeding.

When you have hundreds of miles to travel, it can be tempting to drive over the speed limit. And most of the time, people get away with it. But during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, the North Carolina Highway Patrol says that officers will be targeting speeders and issuing traffic tickets.

Every day, dozens of people are pulled over for speeding in Wilmington, North Carolina. Many of those drivers are issued speeding tickets, and too often, they simply pay the tickets. Drivers should know that contesting speeding tickets can turn out in their favor.

Earlier this week, it was announced that many people who were recently given speeding tickets might have a good shot at having the tickets dismissed. Every police officer using a radar gun to catch speeders must be certified to use that particular device. The sheriff's department admitted that deputies have recently issued speeding tickets based on radar readings from guns they were not certified to use.

We all know that there are places police officers stake out looking for speeders. Most of the time, those places are on roads that traffic naturally flows faster than the posted limit. Now the National Speed Trap Exchange provides drivers a place to list those speed traps and help others avoid unnecessary tickets.

The consequences of speeding tickets and other traffic violations can be more severe than a simple fine. Second and third tickets can lead to revoked licenses, and every speeding ticket has the potential to make your insurance rates go up. The new Speed Trap Exchange can help drivers in North Carolina and throughout the country avoid these consequences.