VA Speeding Fines increasing...

[Kaan]

there is no way on Gods green earth that any politician will get voted into office if they support placing this kind of civil penalty set up on adults. and if the people were stupid enough to do that to themselves... the commonwealth will end up going up in smoke.

I would support most of these changes (clearly I'm in the minority here). 20 over? Hell yeah, big fine. I think the "impeding traffic" is a bit odd... but hey, if you impede traffic enough for a cop to actually ticket you, you probably deserve it. Hopefully this applies to people who are halfway into an intersection, blocking it for everyone else.

I'm all for giving some teeth to laws that actually protect citizens from the dangerous actions of other citizens. It's about time we start taking driving seriously, ya know, since it is like the #1 cause of death for our age group.

live in nova where doing the speed limit on 495 will get you killed... or where people think I95 = i drive 95. and the police around here get really arbitrary. 50 cars on one section of highway moving at 75mph in a 55... you get picked out of the crowd... you are SOL. it happens all the time around here. if you do 55mph he might get a thumb up his ass and write you a ticket too for impeding traffic.