Got Caught By a Red Light Camera?
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Forum Discussion
Anyone ever get a ticket on the highway in Maryland? My son, who is a very safe driver, visited a friend down south. A few weeks after he returned home, we got a speeding ticket for the car he drove, from Maryland. My son was shocked (so were Mom and Dad). The ticket was for 68mph. Son said he had the cruise control set to just over 65mph, as that was what the traffic was doing at the time - I don't think he's ever traveled over 70mph. A ticket for 3mph over the limit?? What???
Turns out - he had traveled through a "construction zone" and the speed limit had dropped to 55mph. He doesn't remember ANY construction signs, traffic cones, let alone any work trucks. After some asking around, turns out Maryland regularly declares a section of highway a "construction zone" and lowers the speed limit. It's for safety. The actual construction in that area may or may not eventually be done, but for safety's sake they lower the speed limit prior to any construction starting - months prior usually. It's for the children, you know. And if the construction project gets canceled? Oh well, they just move the speed camera construction zone to another possible "construction zone". Read articles on the "construction zones" in Maryland -- interesting reading!
We just paid the $40 ticket. In today's world, with everything tracked on computers, I could just see traveling through Maryland in the future and getting into some sort of issue with an unpaid speeding fine from years before.
So, I am not a fan of unmanned "speed cameras".
Turns out - he had traveled through a "construction zone" and the speed limit had dropped to 55mph. He doesn't remember ANY construction signs, traffic cones, let alone any work trucks. After some asking around, turns out Maryland regularly declares a section of highway a "construction zone" and lowers the speed limit. It's for safety. The actual construction in that area may or may not eventually be done, but for safety's sake they lower the speed limit prior to any construction starting - months prior usually. It's for the children, you know. And if the construction project gets canceled? Oh well, they just move the speed camera construction zone to another possible "construction zone". Read articles on the "construction zones" in Maryland -- interesting reading!
We just paid the $40 ticket. In today's world, with everything tracked on computers, I could just see traveling through Maryland in the future and getting into some sort of issue with an unpaid speeding fine from years before.
So, I am not a fan of unmanned "speed cameras".
