Unpaid Tickets from Non-DC Drivers

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Anonymous wrote:OP's post is inaccurate -- it's three tickets totaling $760:

One for 11-15 over the speed limit
One for 16-20 over the speed limit
One stop sign violation

Even if there was an effort to impound vehicles or take away licenses, this person would never be a priority.

It's not inaccurate. She said it's nearly a thousand dollars of tickets related to moving violations. $760 is nearly a thousand dollars and those are all moving violations.

I agree with this poster. The tickets themselves were probably less than 150 each. There’s a total of 3.
The rest are fines for non payment.

Per the reddit poster who found them and posted a pic, they are:

11/29/2025 - Speeding 11-15 Over Limit - $200

10/25/2025 - Running Stop Sign - $200

07/24/2025 - Speeding 16-20 Over Limit - $360

Virginia isn't going to lock up someone for that. You might need to retake the written exam. It's super easy to pass. I think you need a 85%.

Why does everyone think we want people locked up? Even OP has said she doesn't want to see people sent to jail for this.

And the driver isn't from Virginia. They're Maryland plates. Not sure why everyone keeps citing Virginia.

Probably because two-thirds of the drivers with the most outstanding tickets in DC are from Virginia, so we need to get Virginia drivers under control.

Keep in mind a fair number of the Virginia tags were likely owned by people who live in Maryland. The post ran a story about that the other day.

Sorry, I don't buy it. It actually works the opposite way, where VA drivers often try to dodge the car tax by registering their cars in MD.

No, this is a whole thing: https://www.wbaltv.com/article/virginia-license-plates-maryland-vehicle-owners-register-out-of-state/64813279

Interesting. Well I can tell you that Virginia definitely has a department devoted to catching people trying to dodge the car tax by not registering in VA. Had a friend who moved here and took his time registering his car and got some sort of notice that was based on cameras routinely catching him driving in VA.

Liar. The camera system in Fairfax County is only used to locate missing old people and stolen cars.

https://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2024/11/2-years-later-license-plate-readers-are-helping-fairfax-co-police-solve-hundreds-of-cases/

You should be careful about accusing people of lying:

https://www.arlingtonva.us/Government/Programs/Taxes/Automatic-License-Plate-Reader-ALPR-or-LPR

"The Arlington County Commissioner of Revenue (“COR”) has purchased an automatic license plate reader (“ALPR”) system to aid its enforcement staff to ensure that all vehicles regularly garaged in the county follow the registration, licensure and personal property taxation provisions of Virginia law and the Arlington County Code. This system replaces one in which enforcement staff gathered the same information manually, using the County decal as a tool, paper lists and logs of vehicles."

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Anonymous wrote:In the spirit, of vision zero, I think we should erect concrete walls around all stores and restaurants in DC. The walls can have concrete doors so that people will still be able to get into the businesses. We gotta get to zero deaths and injuries no matter what it takes!

Do you seriously think people's suggestions of booting and impounding cars are akin to suggestions of building a concrete wall around the city?

Why do so many of you butthurt suburbanites think this is about you? It's not. I could give two shits about the "be less dramatic" person who paid her ticket the same day. That's not who comes to DC, drives erratically, and faces no consequences.

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Anonymous wrote:OP's post is inaccurate -- it's three tickets totaling $760:

One for 11-15 over the speed limit
One for 16-20 over the speed limit
One stop sign violation

Even if there was an effort to impound vehicles or take away licenses, this person would never be a priority.

It's not inaccurate. She said it's nearly a thousand dollars of tickets related to moving violations. $760 is nearly a thousand dollars and those are all moving violations.

I agree with this poster. The tickets themselves were probably less than 150 each. There’s a total of 3.
The rest are fines for non payment.

Per the reddit poster who found them and posted a pic, they are:

11/29/2025 - Speeding 11-15 Over Limit - $200

10/25/2025 - Running Stop Sign - $200

07/24/2025 - Speeding 16-20 Over Limit - $360

Virginia isn't going to lock up someone for that. You might need to retake the written exam. It's super easy to pass. I think you need a 85%.

Why does everyone think we want people locked up? Even OP has said she doesn't want to see people sent to jail for this.

And the driver isn't from Virginia. They're Maryland plates. Not sure why everyone keeps citing Virginia.

Probably because two-thirds of the drivers with the most outstanding tickets in DC are from Virginia, so we need to get Virginia drivers under control.

Keep in mind a fair number of the Virginia tags were likely owned by people who live in Maryland. The post ran a story about that the other day.

Sorry, I don't buy it. It actually works the opposite way, where VA drivers often try to dodge the car tax by registering their cars in MD.

No, this is a whole thing: https://www.wbaltv.com/article/virginia-license-plates-maryland-vehicle-owners-register-out-of-state/64813279

Interesting. Well I can tell you that Virginia definitely has a department devoted to catching people trying to dodge the car tax by not registering in VA. Had a friend who moved here and took his time registering his car and got some sort of notice that was based on cameras routinely catching him driving in VA.

Liar. The camera system in Fairfax County is only used to locate missing old people and stolen cars.

https://wtop.com/fairfax-county/2024/11/2-years-later-license-plate-readers-are-helping-fairfax-co-police-solve-hundreds-of-cases/

You should be careful about accusing people of lying:

https://www.arlingtonva.us/Government/Programs/Taxes/Automatic-License-Plate-Reader-ALPR-or-LPR

"The Arlington County Commissioner of Revenue (“COR”) has purchased an automatic license plate reader (“ALPR”) system to aid its enforcement staff to ensure that all vehicles regularly garaged in the county follow the registration, licensure and personal property taxation provisions of Virginia law and the Arlington County Code. This system replaces one in which enforcement staff gathered the same information manually, using the County decal as a tool, paper lists and logs of vehicles."

Fairfax County promised it would only be used to find lost pets, stolen cars, and missing old people. You can trust the people at Flock Systems would never abuse the data.

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Anonymous wrote:There are lots of incidents where people crash into buildings, and I think many of them turn out to be driver error -- mainly stepping on the gas instead of the brakes in a parking lot. This is why vision zero is dumb; you're never going to get down to zero pedestrian fatalities because drivers in this area are awful and make mistakes that have nothing to do with speed or road design. I think many incidents can probably be traced to cell phone use, but no one wants to bother enforcing laws against cell phone use, particularly in parking lots.

But that's the whole point of vision zero, idiot---to redesign the roads and reduce the chances, and severity, of the should-be rare calamity like this. Instead of allowing wide city roads that allow predatory drivers like this guy driving way too fast on dense city streets and putting a bus into a restaurant.

Stuff like this happens way to often and it's because people like you make excuses for dangerous drivers. Wake up already.

Hey Karen, the streets here are actually pretty safe. Accidents are extremely rare. That's why you see bicyclists on them with children. It's true that shit happens in the big city. People get mugged too. Maybe you should move if you're not ok with that.

Are you a psy op to make DC liberals look deranged or something? We should be ok with getting mugged because we live in a city?

Some things are unavoidable when you live in a city. No one would propose a vision zero for muggings. The idea that we can prevent all traffic deaths is kinda nutty. Our government can't even clear the snow.

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Anonymous wrote:In the spirit, of vision zero, I think we should erect concrete walls around all stores and restaurants in DC. The walls can have concrete doors so that people will still be able to get into the businesses. We gotta get to zero deaths and injuries no matter what it takes!

Yeah, they're called bollards. The most economically prosperous cities on earth like Paris, London, Sao Paulo, etc, make ample use of them to protect pedestrians and keep motorists off sidewalks.

But of course, here in the US, we only install bollards to protect property, not squishy human beings.

Nice try, though! Got any other great suggestions?

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Anonymous wrote:There are lots of incidents where people crash into buildings, and I think many of them turn out to be driver error -- mainly stepping on the gas instead of the brakes in a parking lot. This is why vision zero is dumb; you're never going to get down to zero pedestrian fatalities because drivers in this area are awful and make mistakes that have nothing to do with speed or road design. I think many incidents can probably be traced to cell phone use, but no one wants to bother enforcing laws against cell phone use, particularly in parking lots.

But that's the whole point of vision zero, idiot---to redesign the roads and reduce the chances, and severity, of the should-be rare calamity like this. Instead of allowing wide city roads that allow predatory drivers like this guy driving way too fast on dense city streets and putting a bus into a restaurant.

Stuff like this happens way to often and it's because people like you make excuses for dangerous drivers. Wake up already.

Hey Karen, the streets here are actually pretty safe. Accidents are extremely rare. That's why you see bicyclists on them with children. It's true that shit happens in the big city. People get mugged too. Maybe you should move if you're not ok with that.

Are you a psy op to make DC liberals look deranged or something? We should be ok with getting mugged because we live in a city?

Some things are unavoidable when you live in a city. No one would propose a vision zero for muggings. The idea that we can prevent all traffic deaths is kinda nutty. Our government can't even clear the snow.

No, but a saner city than DC would actually put muggers in jail and keep them there to face some kind of consequences. We don't do that. We let them out and they go right back to the streets to find their next mark. That guy who was groping housewives in Palisades a couple summers ago was ROR'd and then went right back to groping GW students in Foggy Bottom. Completely absurd. Nowhere else that I've lived would let a sexual abuser out of jail the same day.

That is the issue a lot of us have with traffic enforcement here. I grew up in Virginia Beach. If I got three speeding tickets in Virginia Beach, never appeared in court to contest them, never paid my fines (and one of those fines on the Ambar accident driver is nearly a year old), and continued to collect speeding tickets, my license would be suspended and I would eventually have a bench warrant out for my arrest. No other city allows this kind of mayhem on the roads. Virginia doesn't even allow Virginia drivers to act like this in Virginia, but we're supposed to allow Virginia and Maryland drivers to act like this in DC?

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Anonymous wrote:There are lots of incidents where people crash into buildings, and I think many of them turn out to be driver error -- mainly stepping on the gas instead of the brakes in a parking lot. This is why vision zero is dumb; you're never going to get down to zero pedestrian fatalities because drivers in this area are awful and make mistakes that have nothing to do with speed or road design. I think many incidents can probably be traced to cell phone use, but no one wants to bother enforcing laws against cell phone use, particularly in parking lots.

But that's the whole point of vision zero, idiot---to redesign the roads and reduce the chances, and severity, of the should-be rare calamity like this. Instead of allowing wide city roads that allow predatory drivers like this guy driving way too fast on dense city streets and putting a bus into a restaurant.

Stuff like this happens way to often and it's because people like you make excuses for dangerous drivers. Wake up already.

Hey Karen, the streets here are actually pretty safe. Accidents are extremely rare. That's why you see bicyclists on them with children. It's true that shit happens in the big city. People get mugged too. Maybe you should move if you're not ok with that.

Are you a psy op to make DC liberals look deranged or something? We should be ok with getting mugged because we live in a city?

Some things are unavoidable when you live in a city. No one would propose a vision zero for muggings. The idea that we can prevent all traffic deaths is kinda nutty. Our government can't even clear the snow.

No, but a saner city than DC would actually put muggers in jail and keep them there to face some kind of consequences. We don't do that. We let them out and they go right back to the streets to find their next mark. That guy who was groping housewives in Palisades a couple summers ago was ROR'd and then went right back to groping GW students in Foggy Bottom. Completely absurd. Nowhere else that I've lived would let a sexual abuser out of jail the same day.

That is the issue a lot of us have with traffic enforcement here. I grew up in Virginia Beach. If I got three speeding tickets in Virginia Beach, never appeared in court to contest them, never paid my fines (and one of those fines on the Ambar accident driver is nearly a year old), and continued to collect speeding tickets, my license would be suspended and I would eventually have a bench warrant out for my arrest. No other city allows this kind of mayhem on the roads. Virginia doesn't even allow Virginia drivers to act like this in Virginia, but we're supposed to allow Virginia and Maryland drivers to act like this in DC?

This is DC. No one enforces any laws. It's not that drivers are getting special treatment. It's that they're getting the same treatment as anyone else who breaks any other law. If you don't like, stop electing crazy lefties.

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Who wants to bet that the SUV with Maryland tags that just killed a woman on 23rd & L the other night and fled the scene has multiple unenforced tickets, as well? Anyone?