The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum U. S. Traffic Laws

So yeah, I doubt anyone can help me on this one, but I had a really wierd experience today that I wanted to ask about. I was driving down the highway, and I was getting a little fidgety cause I needed to eat and I happened to be a little bit above the speed limit b/c the speed limit had changed at the previous light or so and I was in traffic in the far left lane. Anyway, I looked back and noticed that there was a woman behind me who seemed to have a police type radio and seemed to be reading off my plate numbers and radio-ing them in, also, there happen to be one of those wagon things with the screen displaying your speed and the speed limit and maybe a camera on the other side of the road. I did not get pulled over or anything, but I was wondering if it's possible to get a ticket without getting pulled over?

Thanx,

-Bro. Luke

Well it is possible in some states. But since it sounds doubtful because they do not know who was diving your car.... I would learn from it and then not worry myself over it...

Yes, it is. However, I am unaware of any type of program in our area that does so. Those boxes are just to make you think and raise your paranoia of being caught. I've seen them in a couple places. While some cities/counties/states have techniques to photograph license plates and send tickets in the mail, I have not heard of this in our area.......yet.


God bless,

william

Florida uses this on its turnpikes. In addition of taking photos of license plates they also photograph the driver, thus they can prove who is driving the car. You should see some of the ingenious ways the photos are circumvented--the depravity of man. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/drop.gif" alt="" />

In B.C., Canada, they used to have Photo Radar, which as Joe mentioned took photos of the license plates of speeding cars. On the basis of those photos, tickets were issued to the owner of the vehicle, even if the owner wasn't driving. The Province had the screwball idea that an owner of a vehicle was wholly responsible for anything that the vehicle owned was involved in. Unfortunately, Canada doesn't have a Bill of Rights like the U.S. and therefore there is no legal defense one could use to argue against it in court. Fortunately, however, Photo Radar was abandoned because it was determined that it didn't reduce traffic accidents. And, I suspect that there was even more political reasons behind its removal. There is currently more talk about bringing it back. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/rolleyes2.gif" alt="" />

In the situation you described, it has been my experience that those overhead signs which flash your speed (they are here too in places) are simply to alert the driver that they are traveling over the posted speed limit. Whether or not there are cameras attached to these signs in your area is something you would have to research. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

In His Grace,