In Virginia, what makes speeding more than 20mph over the limit "reckless" vs. infraction?
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Anonymous
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I'm nosy and looked up someone in the VA court database. They have a speeding ticket that was 24 mph over the speed limit (69/45) but it was only an "infraction" ticket that they were able to pay online and waive the court appearance. I thought speeding more than 20 mph over the limit was reckless and a misdemeanor? Is it just the police officer's discretion?
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Anonymous
| Are you sure that “someone” isn’t you, OP? |
Anonymous
| They went to court and got it knocked down. |
Anonymous
| I thought it was 15 mph over was reckless now. |
Anonymous
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I thought it was a free-for-all now.
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Anonymous
This. Pretty sure my brother got his knocked down (when we were a lot younger) because he agreed to do driving school. |
Anonymous
| WTF is wrong with you, OP? |
Anonymous
| 20 miles or over 80 is reckless. |
Anonymous
It's 85 now. The law changed. |
Anonymous
Positive. If it were me, I'd probably know why. |
Anonymous
The date of the violation, and the date the ticket was paid, were less than 2 weeks apart, and Christmas and New Years were both in those two weeks. Would a court date in such a short amount of time be possible? The court date listed on the page isn't until February--but then under "Result" it says "Waived" and then when you scroll down you can see it was paid. |
Anonymous
It is it's lawless now. The amount of people I see run red lights EVERYDAY. The people driving around with no headlights at night in pouring down rain the last few days and no cops in sight. It's anything goes. |
Anonymous
| You got me curious OP, so I looked up fairfax county court records on speeding/reckless driving. Which one it is seems up to the officer. But almost all cases of 76-80 in 55 appear as speeding and almost all cases of 86+ in 55 appear as reckless |
Anonymous
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It’s entirely luck as a lot rests with the discretion of the officer.
If you get written up as reckless, you can go to court and a judge can knock it down to just speeding. But much much better to have it just written by the officer as a speeding infraction to begin with. Never speed faster than 80 or more than 19 over in VA. |
Anonymous
| Need badge cam video to see officer discretion. |