VA Speeding Fines increasing...

[Steve85]

This is from another forum, while discussing intake manifold choices.

IMHO I believe its a very good option for street driven 350-383 engines. I could not care less about top speed or performance on the strip as those are not something usable here. Drag racing is not popular (or considered a sport by 99% of people) and top speed can be a bit expensive. We have no upper limit on the speeding tickets, my largest one this far is $2000 and just a few months ago my friend was fined $15600 for driving 106mph at 75 zone. The record is $731000 one guy was fined couple of years ago after speeding inside city limits with his Lambo.

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After a few questions about how the fines are calculated...

The fine is not all about the speed, its mostly about your income. Well, speed is taken like this: 1-10mph speeding, fine only like 200 bucks, over that they will look at your income and then you will start to suffer. 16mph or more speeding and your family will suffer too We have a progressive tax system so more you make more you pay. In the speeding issue this means they try to make fines hurt everybody as much. So, they check what your net income is and calculate the fine according to that. If your income is massive, your fine will be equally massive.

If I remember it correctly the lambo was only doing like 38mph at 18mph limit zone. That is like 100% over the limit which is considered bad even if there was no real danger.

Its been 15 years since I was fined so I knock on wood and hope not to get a serious fine (16+mph speeding) any time soon. It would really hurt