Speeding Tickets ... Does any one follow the speed limit ?
By nationalcity
@nationalcity (358)
United States
March 21, 2007 4:31pm CST
The free way / High way speed restriction is 70 Miles per hour in US ,in Canada it is 100 Kms per hour and in India 70 Kms per hour. I have traveled a lot in these countries by road and have hardly seen a soul obeying these restrictions. In US at least once in a while I have seen cops issuing tickets on free way but Canada and India very rarely you get to see a cop issuing a ticket. But no one follows the speed limits on these roads. US and Canada at least have wider roads and no intersections in between. Also generally no animals on the road (Remember if not cows that are common in India, here you get deer and other wild animals). Why is the speed limit is set to a figure which no one follows and the enforcing authority check this once in a blue moon ????
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@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
21 Mar 07
I have to admit, I tend to be the one going slower than the speed limit now. I used to speed all the time, if the limit was 55 I was doing 65 or more. Then one morning on the way to work I was involved in an accident - rolled my car all the way over. I had just looked at my speedomoter and was doing 45 - I walked away but was wearing seat belt and wouldn't have if I hadn't been, it totalled my car. That was enough to slow me down.
@nationalcity (358)
• United States
22 Mar 07
Oofs !. I am lucky, I learnt my lesson just by a ticket
@cvdrpepper53 (218)
• United States
21 Mar 07
i know a few people who follow the speed limit but u cant always have it at the same speed unless you u use cruise control so u are bound to go over buy a few miles or in someone elses case kilometers
@nationalcity (358)
• United States
22 Mar 07
Right. I strongly feel the limit should be flexible at least by 15 to 20 miles extra over the one they put on the sign board. (I got a ticket other day just for 10 miles extra !!)
