Posted on 10/16/2012 5:29:36 AM PDT by cuban leaf
New State Law Gets Tough on Illegal Speeders NEW SUPER SPEEDER LAW STARTS NEW YEAR WITH NEW FINES
(JANUARY 1, 2010) Georgia drivers should mark that date on their calendars and put a sticky note next to their keys.. January 1st, 2010. Its the day the new state Super Speeder Law goes into effect in Georgia. And any high-risk drivers who make a habit of ignoring posted speed limits will be the first to feel the pinch of higher state fines (called fees) on their wallets.
How much higher? The new law titled HB160 tacks-on another two-hundred-dollar state-fee for any driver convicted of speeding at 75-or-more on any two-lane roads.. OR convicted of speeding at 85-and-over anywhere in Georgia. Those new state fees will be in addition to any local fines already in effect in the jurisdiction where the speeding offense occurs.
Who is a SuperSpeeder? Under the provisions of this new Georgia law, any driver convicted of violating HB160 will now be classified by the state as a Super Speeder and subject to an additional fee. The new SuperSpeeder Law is designed to get tough on high-risk drivers whove been endangering other motorists and ignoring warnings to slow down. On average, theres a speed-related death-a-day in Georgia!
The SuperSpeeder Law established the new state fees to help police put the brakes on Georgias dangerous and illegal speeders. Failure to pay the SuperSpeeder fee results in an additional $50.00 fee and the suspension of the offenders driving privileges and license. SuperSpeeder is a highway safety law designed to save lives on our roads by changing the way illegal speeders drive in Georgia... by slowing them down within legal limits.
And these new fees will save lives another way. Fees collected under the new SuperSpeeder Law will be used to help fund Georgias trauma care hospital system where approximately sixty-percent of all trauma-care-patients are crash-related. Now for the first time, SuperSpeeders will help pay for the hospital beds where their crash-victims are being treated.
Drivers need to remember: There are safety reasons for posted speed limits. Any time motorists drive at illegal speeds they put themselves, their passengers and others at tremendous risk. Crash forces double on impact with every ten mph increase in speed above fifty. Speed reduces the amount of available time needed to avoid a crash. Georgias new Super Speeder Law and fees go into effect January 1st, 2010.
VIEW PHOTOS AND NEWS FROM ATLANTA & COMPANY INTERVIEW WITH GOHS DIRECTOR BOB DALLAS ON THE SUPER SPEEDER LAW
VIEW PHOTOS AND COMMENTARY FROM THE LATEST SUPER SPEEDER NEWS CONFERENCE IN COLUMBUS HERE
VIEW PHOTOS AND COMMENTARY FROM THE SUPER SPEEDER NEWS CONFERENCE KICKOFF IN ATLANTA HERE
LISTEN TO GOVERNOR SONNY PERDUE'S PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS ON THE SUPER SPEEDER LAW HERE (30 SECONDS) AND HERE (60 SECONDS).....
LISTEN TO THE .10 SECOND, .15 SECOND, .30 SECOND, AND .60 SECOND PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR SUPER SPEEDER TODAY....
If you want safer highways: 1)If you do not currently have a law against cruising in the fast lane then create one and 2)Enforce it.
If you want safer highways: 1)If you do not currently have a law against cruising in the fast lane then create one and 2)Enforce it.
We are in 100% agreement there. It was a real problem where I lived in Seattle. Fortunately here in Kentucky, though it happens, it is much more rare.
When the speed camera people (politically connected private industry) get involved, expect the program to be expanded incrementally to include things like 65-70 in a 55 zone.
What with half the money going to camera folks, new “revenue streams” will need to be factored in.
Nowadays, the crummiest 5 yr-old Corolla, or a new KIA can do better than that, and these 3.0 L turbo rocket Soccer Mom vans and family sedans much, much better.
My question is "Why?" I used to drive between Ohio and DC quite frequently for business, and the normal cruise was 75+, but many is the 18-wheeler convoy doing a whole lot better than that.
Meanwhile, back in the motherlands, turbo-diesel family cars are giving the Euros 65 mpg as they cruise in comfort at 75-80. The VW TDI does close to that here.
Why are American spec vehicles sacrficing mpg for jack-rabbit starts and performance potential that cannot be legally used? Why not more Diesel sedans? Why no Diesel SUV's?
Instead of electric cars, the next phase maybe should concentrate on Diesels and CNG (we have, as Jay Leno pointed out, q 600-year supply!)
Legitimate question. According to your priorities and judgment, it doesn't make sense. But it seems that there are other customers who prefer the higher performance, and it's their right to buy what they want.
IOW, fed-spec it back to 1973, except for emissions. Euro-emissions, CA emissions are, IMNSVHO, are about as far as the IC engine is ever going to go before we switch to hydrogen, 200 years from now. A/C, CD-DVD? Sure. After- market mods? Sure, it's a free country. Tax break the heck out of it.
As to your point of "customers right to performance," OK! But why have speed limits, then?
Oh yeah, one more thing, elect me President and I shall shoot every tenth "green environmentalist" at least once a week.
Definition: Environmentalist = Rich Lefty who already has a nice house in the woods and doesn't want you close and who uses the word "pristine" a lot.
Driver and/or road limitations.
For a long time, I've wished there was some sort of speed-graduated license available, like the current vehicle-weight-graduated licenses. Prove you can safely drive at 100 mph and have the requisite eyesight and reflexes, then you get a driver license which says so, and a sticker for the rear window of your car which says so. Or, maybe something like "20+", which permits you to drive 20 mph higher than the posted freeway speed limit, whatever that may be.
I think the minimum skills required for a driver license in the US are too low. Driving is treated like a constitutional right, when it's not.
Germany has far lower accident rates on the autobahn than we do on our interstates, notwithstanding higher speeds.
HOWEVER, it's not all that free and easy and has left me with some habits that do not endear me to our fellow citizens. In town, or built up areas I am a fanatic about observing the speed limit, absolutely slowing down for yellow lights, and really stopping for stop signs. On the interstates, if there are three lanes, I keep up with traffic in the middle lane, but never do more than 5-8 more than the posted speed limit. On the autobahn, I learned to drive to the safe envelope of my equipment, maxing at about 100MpH and staying out of the way of the rich boys in their big-bore stuff. Off the autobahn and driving through towns and especially villages, super careful. Gets me a lot of fingers in this country ... especially driving in Florida.... (Not in Maine, thank you!)
Not too many of us would like a German parking ticket, either, for the meter fraulein can write one up for a dirty car, a rusted car, a bad tire, bad wipers, hanging trim, cracked lenses or windshield, etc. ad inf.
One more thing on German safety, when they do have an accident on the autobahn, it ain't no fender bender. It's time for multiple meat wagons and life flights. In all, though, driving is for sure on a much higher performance and intellectual plane in Germany. And where BTW, murder is treated one hell of a lot more leniently than driving "under the influence."
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