Speeding Tickets...

[emily_in_nc]

GLC, you may be onto something. I've lived in NC most of my driving years and have never gotten pulled for any reason. And I do speed -- not terribly much, but I'll go 9-10 mph over the speed limit often. And I commute 30 miles each way to work, so I do have to drive quite a bit. Worst thing that's ever happen is an unmarked cop flashing his blue lights at me ever so briefly just as a warning. I had just gotten out of being stuck behind two cars (one in each lane), each going about 10 mph under the limit, and I sped out just to get around them. The cop flashed at me, I slowed down, and he didn't pull me. Lucky!

My DH speeds more than I do and has never gotten pulled in the nearly 23 years I've known him - in NC.

So, perhaps NC is a "low pull" state?

Emily

[Blueberry]

Emily-

Except for parts of Greensboro, I think you're right (got pulled the day after Christmas a couple of years ago and should not have gotten the ticket - speed limit had just reduced, and the cop pulled in so close behind me I couldn't have braked or he woulda hit me)! My commute is 35 miles and I regularly go 9-10 or even 15 over. Of course, I'm (barely) keeping up with traffic on the freeway. I am, however, very well behaved on all secondary roads (anywhere cyclists aren't banned, and there might be kids, etc).

CA

[GLC1968]

Ooh, something else my DH and I immediately noticed when we moved here to NC? The speed limits are fairly well suited to the roads. In other words, I speed, but only if I feel safe due to the nature of the road (and the congestion). In every other state I've lived in, the speed that felt comfortable to me was a solid 20 mph higher than most posted limits (no joke). In NC, it's MUCH closer (0 - 5mph) for most roads. Weird, huh?

Another oddity: Since I got my Mini, I've started driving faster (even more so when I lived in FL) and I've still not been pulled over (knock on wood). It's been 3 years now and I've had many 'close calls' where I've sped past a cop and should, by all rights, have been pulled over. I'm not 100% convinced that BMW didn't install cloaking devices in the Mini's.

[Blueberry]

I'm not 100% convinced that BMW didn't install cloaking devices in the Mini's.

Plus they're just so darned cute (of course a bike is cuter but....)