Dear Americans,

Greetings from Australia, where I recently got a speeding ticket for 38mp/h in 35 country road zone. Technically, 62km/h in a 60 zone. It was a fixed speed camera and part of Australia's great Nanny State's (Victoria) enforcement policy on low level speeding. There is a 3km/h forgiveness (so gracious) so I was detected at 65km/h (40mp/h) and booked for 62km/h (38mp/h).

My question? Can anyone in the USA report similarly low tolerance levels for speeding?! In effect, getting ticketed for 2-3 MPH over some posted limit. It's really a curiosity question but based on the USA bring such a big motorcycle market.

PS: I lived in Canada for 15 years and went on multiple USA riding trips (your. East Coast and Rockies areas are great rides). Never any trouble with speeding, despite my old FXR lacking cruise control and thus never being spot on some speed!

PPS: I don't condone reckless speeding but think it statistically specious to argue, as Victoria does, that reducing low speed infringements directly results in less accidents (can provide the statistical reasoning if asked, but short form is that to make that causal claim one has to isolate speed as the only casual variable in a model of accidents).

 

Well to me, that is being very picky!

Here in the state of Missouri in the in the US, you can usually get away with at least 5 mph over.

HOWEVER, the way the laws are actually written, they can ticket you for 1 mph over.
But I have never seen that happen.

Every HD speedometer I have ever seen was a little off (in your favor) when it comes to going fast enough to get a ticket.
Meaning, when the speedometer read 60 mph you were actually only going about 58 mph.

 

There's a popular phrase here in the states that says: "Eight you're great, nine you're mine." MPH, of course. I've seen people get stopped going about five over, but that's rare. Never happened to me.

 

If you wanna play, you gotta pay.

 

you can always invest in a Valentine One Radar Detector.

 

I know in school areas the police buddies I knew had zero tolerance for anything over the speed limit, and I know some smaller towns that are known for being very picky as well with little to no tolerance in their town. In fact, I got pulled over in such a town when I lived in Colorado, but the ticket was thrown out by the judge because the officer did not include a year in the date field on the citation, so he said it was not complete because it didn't have a valid date, therefore the citation was not valid.

 

Depends solely on the cop stopping you here , I've been ticketed for 2mph over and just has the lights flashed at me doing 15+ over as the guy passed me waving a finger shaking his head. Camera you can't beat if the local enforcement people are trying to make a point, couple times a summer they will radar trap a local 25mph street and write you for any over.

 

In the Phoenix, Arizona area we used to have fixed speed cameras on the highways, you were allowed 10 mph and cameras went off at 11 over.


They removed the cameras after only a couple of years because they were not cost effective. People were ignoring the ticket in the mail so they would have to be served, there was a time limit for the ticket to be served or the ticket went away. Many people did not have to pay the fines.

 

Sounds like a over spending government looking for ways to fill the government coffers.

 

Here in Colorado, it's 10 over for the camera tickets. Some municipalities are much more strict.