Anonymous
Post 01/10/2024 21:38     Subject: In Virginia, what makes speeding more than 20mph over the limit "reckless" vs. infraction?
Need badge cam video to see officer discretion.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2024 20:40     Subject: In Virginia, what makes speeding more than 20mph over the limit "reckless" vs. infraction?
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
Post 01/10/2024 20:05     Subject: In Virginia, what makes speeding more than 20mph over the limit "reckless" vs. infraction?
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
Post 01/10/2024 16:54     Subject: In Virginia, what makes speeding more than 20mph over the limit "reckless" vs. infraction?
Anonymous wrote:I thought it was a free-for-all now.


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
Post 01/10/2024 16:54     Subject: In Virginia, what makes speeding more than 20mph over the limit "reckless" vs. infraction?
Anonymous wrote:They went to court and got it knocked down.


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
Post 01/10/2024 16:51     Subject: In Virginia, what makes speeding more than 20mph over the limit "reckless" vs. infraction?
Anonymous wrote:Are you sure that “someone” isn’t you, OP?


Positive. If it were me, I'd probably know why.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2024 16:25     Subject: In Virginia, what makes speeding more than 20mph over the limit "reckless" vs. infraction?
Anonymous wrote:20 miles or over 80 is reckless.


It's 85 now. The law changed.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2024 16:21     Subject: In Virginia, what makes speeding more than 20mph over the limit "reckless" vs. infraction?
20 miles or over 80 is reckless.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2024 16:03     Subject: In Virginia, what makes speeding more than 20mph over the limit "reckless" vs. infraction?
WTF is wrong with you, OP?
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2024 16:02     Subject: In Virginia, what makes speeding more than 20mph over the limit "reckless" vs. infraction?
Anonymous wrote:They went to court and got it knocked down.


This. Pretty sure my brother got his knocked down (when we were a lot younger) because he agreed to do driving school.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2024 15:58     Subject: In Virginia, what makes speeding more than 20mph over the limit "reckless" vs. infraction?
I thought it was a free-for-all now.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2024 15:37     Subject: In Virginia, what makes speeding more than 20mph over the limit "reckless" vs. infraction?
I thought it was 15 mph over was reckless now.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2024 15:29     Subject: In Virginia, what makes speeding more than 20mph over the limit "reckless" vs. infraction?
They went to court and got it knocked down.
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2024 15:29     Subject: In Virginia, what makes speeding more than 20mph over the limit "reckless" vs. infraction?
Are you sure that “someone” isn’t you, OP?
Anonymous
Post 01/10/2024 15:23     Subject: In Virginia, what makes speeding more than 20mph over the limit "reckless" vs. infraction?
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?
Thanks