How many traffic tickets have you gotten in the last 10 years?

[Anonymous]

Zero. I've never gotten a ticket.

[Anonymous]

2 total one was for talking on a cell phone.. jeez felt stupid for that, should've fought in court forgot the court date oh well

[Anonymous]

Two. One was that speed camera on 395 as you go into DC and the speed limit drops to 40/45 mph. The other was when I accidentally drove onto 66 west bound when it was HOV only and the cop was waiting at the on ramp.

[Anonymous]

DC, Canal Rd, $125. I think this was four years ago.

[Anonymous]

I have never had a ticket. I started driving at 15. I’m 55. Some of it is because I’m a really careful driver. Some of it is luck.

[Anonymous]

One, red light camera.

[Anonymous]

Zero. I am 45 and my last speeding ticket was at 18.

[Anonymous]

About 4-5/year in DC thanks to the speed cameras. Outbound South Dakota Ave gets me every time.

[Anonymous]

Total in 10 years? Definitely 1, maybe 2-- speed cameras. The last time I was pulled over by a cop was about 16-17 years ago, also for speeding on one of those midwest interstates where the speed limit dips from 75 to 55 and they wait for you.

I am a white woman, though a bit ~*ethnically ambiguous*~, but relatedly, my darkskinned SE Asian American husband was pulled over with me and our kid in the car two years ago-- also for speeding. This was in Virginia in the very tip of the Delmarva peninsula. We were traveling from NC to Ocean City, MD, so we had taken the bay tunnel and were on the other side, driving north to OC, in this very rural area, on a road used mostly for... getting to OC. So lots of tourists and day trippers, and I'm not surprised they'd set up a speed trap.

It was a bit odd, though, as my husband told me he had the cruise control set at like 9 mph over the SL, and the cop said he clocked him at 15 mph over-- some small but significant difference I can't remember, and it made a difference in terms of the level and $$ of the violation. Cop wasn't rude or anything-- he could also see me and the kid in the car FWIW-- but there was this weird, extra fake/robotic vibe. We're naive and were just kind of thinking, well, I guess the car isn't well-calibrated, or maybe DH turned the cruise control off and forgot, or the SL changed... Anyway, it was pretty expensive IIRC-- like $200+?

I went to pay it online after we had finished our little vacation, but there was some reason I had to look up the cop's name and date of the ticket or something rather than use DH's unique code... IIRC, we had the manual ticket copy from the cop, but it takes a week to get a letter in the snail mail with all of the info that makes it easier to pay online.

In any event, because I was searching online, I saw all of the tickets this cop had handed out that day, and the first and last names of all of the violators.

A pattern became clear very quickly without my even having to look for it. About 75% of the names were obviously Asian, African, Spanish* or gave some other indication the person was likely of color ("Devontae," "LaKeisha"). And it seems unlikely all of the other 25% "John Smiths" were white.

So either almost everyone (or almost everyone without VA plates) who travels up Route 13 in Eastern Shore VA is of color, or "something else" was going on. :/


*Obviously not everyone with a Spanish name is of color, but just saying.

[Anonymous]

I got a red light ticket several years ago because I completely missed the "No Right on Red" sign. So stupid.
I also got a speed camera ticket on that stretch of 355 in Gaithersburg where the speed limit is lower.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I got a red light ticket several years ago because I completely missed the "No Right on Red" sign. So stupid.
I also got a speed camera ticket on that stretch of 355 in Gaithersburg where the speed limit is lower.

To clarify: stupid of me for not noticing the sign

[Anonymous]

2 speeding tickets on camera, both dismissed

[Anonymous]

No tickets. No accidents. I drive about 10,000 miles a year around DC for work. My employer required a defensive driving course that includes using turn signals, missing my turn if I'm in the wrong lane, keeping a safe following distance and allowing people to merge in front of me.

I practice my deep breathing and avert my attention when my wife or teenager is driving.

[Anonymous]

1. Parking ticket in Georgetown, didn’t realize needed to back into the parking space.

[Anonymous]

One when I was 17 for turning right on red. The no turn sign was almost completely obscured by a tree. I’m 28 now and that is the only one i have gotten.