Watch your speed in NC.
03-23-2016, 07:19 PM
#1
Administrator / Scooter Bum
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Watch your speed in NC.
News reporting NC police will start STRICTLY enforcing the speed limit.
They're stating that ONE mile over will get you pulled over.
Speeding enforcement crackdown in NC to target anyone going above posted limit | myfox8.com
They're stating that ONE mile over will get you pulled over.
The governor's highway safety program is ramping up what's being called "Obey the Sign or Pay the Fine" speeding enforcement crackdown.
03-24-2016, 08:21 AM
#2
DTR's Night Watchman & Poet Laureate
That'll be interesting.
Federal guidelines allow for a plus/minus of 3 mph for a speedometer to be " certified",
K-band Doppler, most commonly used in law enforcement allows for a 2mph variance to be within certification specs.
This us why very very few officers will write for 5 or less over.
At least those are the parameters I was taught in the academy all those years ago..lol
Federal guidelines allow for a plus/minus of 3 mph for a speedometer to be " certified",
K-band Doppler, most commonly used in law enforcement allows for a 2mph variance to be within certification specs.
This us why very very few officers will write for 5 or less over.
At least those are the parameters I was taught in the academy all those years ago..lol
03-24-2016, 09:17 AM
#3
Administrator
Meh, sounds like Ohio and Wisconsin back in the 70's.
I got pulled over for 55.5 MPH in Wisconsin.
Didn't issue a ticket, just a stern "Boy, we are watching you".
Somehow I doubt they will need to go down to 1 MPH over to fill any quotas though.
I got pulled over for 55.5 MPH in Wisconsin.
Didn't issue a ticket, just a stern "Boy, we are watching you".
Somehow I doubt they will need to go down to 1 MPH over to fill any quotas though.
03-25-2016, 12:22 PM
#4
Registered User
I'll just remember to drive 10 mph under the speed limit in NC.
Did the same thing in CA decades ago. Made them mad and there was nothing they could do about it, no minimum speed limit.
Did the same thing in CA decades ago. Made them mad and there was nothing they could do about it, no minimum speed limit.
03-27-2016, 12:36 AM
#7
Registered User
I don't know how they don't have busses run over every week on the interstate there. Get out in traffic and do 45 MPH. Then they have some that have about 50 acres of glass and 3 trillion candlepower worth of LEDs on the front. When I'd meet them facing the sun, I'd have to stop and wait for them to pass, all I could see was another sun coming down the highway at me.
Most traffic will drive within 10 mph, somewhere around 70% or more. Setting the speed limit in the middle of that 10 mph window, some of the faster traffic will slow down, and the slower traffic will speed up.
The fewer times a vehicle passes, or is passed by, another vehicle, the less chance there is of a crash.
Traffic light cameras actually cause more accidents, too, but you won't hear that on the news, either.
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03-27-2016, 05:07 AM
#8
Administrator / Scooter Bum
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The latest from NCDoT:
NCDOT says speed enforcement campaign misconstrued - MSNewsNow.com - Jackson, MS
NCDOT says speed enforcement campaign misconstrued - MSNewsNow.com - Jackson, MS
WILMINGTON, NC (WECT) -
A spokesman with the North Carolina Department of Transportation told WECT a speed enforcement campaign starting Thursday morning was misconstrued in a story written by a Raleigh-market television station.
In a press release sent Thursday morning, spokesman Jonathan Bandy wrote that the campaign, “zeros in on drivers traveling over the posted speed limit. Many Americans believe they won’t be ticketed if they drive within a ‘buffer zone’ above the posted speed limit.”
Bandy said he pulled that language verbatim from the National Traffic Highway Safety Administration’s website, and the purpose of this campaign is to target speeders like they have with every speed enforcement campaign every year.
“The intention of this campaign was to never have a story that ABC 11 ran that people will get pulled for going one to nine miles over the speed limit,” Bandy said. “But the speed limit is the law, and people should abide by it.”
According to Bandy, the campaign is the same one they’ve always used, it’s just operating under a new name. The former name, “No Need to Speed,” became trademarked.
A spokesman with the North Carolina Department of Transportation told WECT a speed enforcement campaign starting Thursday morning was misconstrued in a story written by a Raleigh-market television station.
In a press release sent Thursday morning, spokesman Jonathan Bandy wrote that the campaign, “zeros in on drivers traveling over the posted speed limit. Many Americans believe they won’t be ticketed if they drive within a ‘buffer zone’ above the posted speed limit.”
Bandy said he pulled that language verbatim from the National Traffic Highway Safety Administration’s website, and the purpose of this campaign is to target speeders like they have with every speed enforcement campaign every year.
“The intention of this campaign was to never have a story that ABC 11 ran that people will get pulled for going one to nine miles over the speed limit,” Bandy said. “But the speed limit is the law, and people should abide by it.”
According to Bandy, the campaign is the same one they’ve always used, it’s just operating under a new name. The former name, “No Need to Speed,” became trademarked.
05-22-2016, 11:02 PM
#9
DTR Founder
NCDOT was stupid about this. Wasn't true and never will be. I would have my butt handed to me for writing a ticket for 1 over, or even 5. I don't even stop you until 10 and write you until 15.
05-23-2016, 10:44 AM
#10
Registered User
If I'm such a menace, why do cops use me as a duck blind to catch speeders?
I see a lot of accidents every year on Alaska highways. They are always caused by two things; 1, driving too fast for the conditions and 2, totally unaware (oblivious) of what's ahead of them.
I see a lot of accidents every year on Alaska highways. They are always caused by two things; 1, driving too fast for the conditions and 2, totally unaware (oblivious) of what's ahead of them.
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