Trooper Ticketed for Speeding - How fast do you drive?

[JollyMon66]

Trooper Ticketed For Speeding
95 MPH In A 70 MPH Zone
POSTED: 6:35 pm EDT March 23, 2010

SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S. C. -- A South Carolina Highway Patrol trooper has been cited for speeding.

Lance Corporal Stephen Poole was stopped by another Highway Patrol trooper on Interstate 85 in Spartanburg County on March 16. According to Department of Public Safety spokesman Sid Gaulden, Poole was going 95 miles per hour where the posted speed limit is 70.

Poole was given a $449 ticket. Poole was driving his own car, not a Highway Patrol vehicle.

Gaulden says no disciplinary action has been taken against Poole but says it’s possible Poole could be disciplined after the ticket is adjudicated. Poole is currently out on medical leave.


This news clip brings up an often interesting conversation. If you're willing share - what's the fastest you've ever been stopped and ticketed for and where? If you always drive the speed limit let us know as well. If you have a standard workable excuse to avoid a ticket please share your knowledge with the group.

For myself - I got stopped doing 82 on I-70 in Columbus, OH back when the national speed limit was still 55. I seem to think that cost me several hundred at that time.

[pbans]

I got stopped for 106 in a 55 back in the day.....it was just outside of Wendover, Nevada (Bonneville Salt Flats)....the trooper was a prince and only wrote me for 75 and didn't make me post bail.....

These days, I keep it within 10 mph of the speed limit *most* of the time.....the speedometer did sneak up a few times on my trip to Boise....dang, that's a boring drive.

[pair8head]

I'm not sure how fast I was traveling at the time but the biggest ticket I ever got was for 14 over the posted speed limit. The officer lowered the actual speed to give me a break. I don't know why he did this other then the fact that my Mother was with me at the time.

I do know that in the late 70's when the speed limit was 55 I was driving at night across Kansas doing about 90 when a Kansas State Trooper went by me like I was standing still and he didn't have his lights and siren going. I just figured he was late getting to the doughnut shop.

[Skibo]

Fastest ever stopped for was 92 in a 55 just outside of Johnston, PA. It was a rental. All my speeding tickets (3) were in rentals. They were also all before I turned 20. I have broken 100 on my motorcycle once. What a rush. 75 on my scooter. The scooter speed was a bigger rush than the motorcycle. I don't exceed the speed limit much now, I get a bigger rush out of acceleration and the roar of the engine.

[ph4ever]

I have never been ticketed (watch me get one on the way home).

My speed depends on where I am. In places like west Texas or Montana on a long flat highway - 90+

Commuting back in forth to work it's usually 65-75 if traffic allows.


I have a lead foot and have trouble going the speed limit - anywhere.

[pair8head]

I have a lead foot and have trouble going the speed limit - anywhere.

And I can show you finger indentations on the OMG's on the passenger side of her truck to prove it.

[ph4ever]

I have a lead foot and have trouble going the speed limit - anywhere.

And I can show you finger indentations on the OMG's on the passenger side of her truck to prove it.

[spartan1979]

82 in a 70. I had just slowed down from 90.

[big john]

Back in the 70's I got my Firebird up to 125 on the PA turnpike. In the same
vehicle and the same year I drove from Harrisburg, PA to Gloucester City, NJ
in 80 minutes. Didn't see a single cop. It was over 100 miles distance.
In Dec 1975 four of us in a GTO drove cross country in 56 hours.

[thebeachbumm33]

When I was young and stupid got caught doing 112 in a 55 on the GSP, fortunately the trooper was a very close friend to the family and only called my father. Most recent ticket was 3yrs ago, 2 of them on the same day coming back from Florida, 88 in a 70 in Georgia and 75 in a 55 in Virginia. I do normally drive 75 on the GSP...

[Hockey Mon]

I can't drive 55.

My tickets (~6/7) have been in the 15 miles per hour or less over the posted speed limit variety. Fastest speed was around 100 on Route 15 in MD/PA. The beltway/toll road/66 in DC is nuts so driving 70 mph (which is about what I do) isn't so far out of the norm.

[z-man]

Back in my teens, a charitable cop wrote me a ticket for 84 in a 70, I know he clocked me well over 90

Years ago I had my brothers Corvette over 135 on a long, no access stretch of interstate.

My standard driving speed on interstates nowadays is to set the cruise control at 9 miles over the posted speed limit

[VanillaGrl]

I, like Connie, have never been ticketed (that's not to say that I haven't been stopped a few times though. ) and have a major lead foot.

Roadtrips across TX, AL , LA, etc., I usually drive 90+. I have gotten better with my drive in to town for work, though, keeping it usually between 75-80.

[ph4ever]

I, like Connie, have never been ticketed (that's not to say that I haven't been stopped a few times though. ) and have a major lead foot.

Roadtrips across TX, AL , LA, etc., I usually drive 90+. I have gotten better with my drive in to town for work, though, keeping it usually between 75-80.

I've hiked a skirt up and unbuttoned a couple of buttons a time or two in my younger days

[SharkOnLand]

A Colorado State Patrol officer got arrested for DUI the other day, while on duty in his patrol car.

http://cbs4denver.com/crime/state.troop ... 80332.html

[SMLCHNG]

I haven't had a speeding ticket since the early 80's. I was doing 70 in a 55. I just don't have much of a lead foot any more, but I do want you to drive the speed limit, or get over.

[SMLCHNG]

A Colorado State Patrol officer got arrested for DUI the other day, while on duty in his patrol car.

http://cbs4denver.com/crime/state.troop ... 80332.html

I was gonna post that, too!!

[JollyMon66]

I, like Connie, have never been ticketed (that's not to say that I haven't been stopped a few times though. ) and have a major lead foot.

Roadtrips across TX, AL , LA, etc., I usually drive 90+. I have gotten better with my drive in to town for work, though, keeping it usually between 75-80.

I've hiked a skirt up and unbuttoned a couple of buttons a time or two in my younger days

NOW that reminds me of this scene from Cannonball Run - a great movie about speeding :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPV6QySTVZw

[bravedave]

100+ in a 55 zone. (I'm surprised my Plymouth POS held together!)
Got tagged by a State trooper transporting a prisoner, so I didn't spend the night in lockup.
It was an ugly day in court - no mercy shown. Lotta points, plus fine, plus driver's school.

[mommar]

a few years ago 80 in a 40 on my way to court (jury duty) of all days for the school bus to be late

back in the 70s I saw my speedometer hit 125 as I was driving to The Cape....I slowed it down to 90, when I got to the cape, and called home to say we were safe and there, dad said "you're there already!!"

The family has a joke that my car has one speed now, 55 no matter where I am