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E. Faubion <in@the.sig> wrote:
> 
> Actually the odds are about even here.  If you get stopped without a
> detector the officer may issue a warning or make it a no-point cite.
> With the detector it's a full blown ticket every time.  We kind of
> figure that evens things up a little bit.  On top of that most traffic
> court judges will also increase the fines to the max if the evidence
> shows the detector was in use.

A few days ago, I saw a car zooming through urban expressway traffic at
about 90 mph.  It was very disruptive to the whole traffic stream.  Like
a broker-field runner stiff-arming the other players.  It brought to
mind a news article I saw a couple years ago.

It was on I-95 in Miami at rush hour.  A guy in a full-sized Mercedes
was going 100 mph.  He was impatient with the urban traffic, so he did
numerous tailgatings, and numerous lane-changes.  He finally lost
control of his car, and it went off the side of the road, and hit a
guard rail end-treatment (the type that slopes into the ground).  The
car ramped up, became airborne, and the car slammed into a retaining
wall.  Highway patrolmen said that the car literally painted itself onto
the wall.  The first trooper that examined the wreckage was so sickened
by what he saw that he vomited his guts out.  It took three hours before
they could identify the identity of the driver and the registration of
the car.  He had to be shoveled up.

What's the point of this article?  One, after a high-speed crash, people
don't care (sometimes even know) what kind of a ride you had.  The car
always looks like a pile of junk.  Second, his velocity might have been
appropriate on I-94 in Montana, but not on I-95 in Miami at rush hour. 
Three, thankfully he didn't hit anyone else.

-- 
Scott M. Kozel    "The Virginia Highwayman"   kozelsm@richmond.infi.net  
Highway and Transportation History Websites  
Virginia/Maryland/Washington D.C. http://www.richmond.infi.net/~kozelsm
PHL area http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Campus/5961/pennways.html