<p>Fascinating. Why would NYS have this regulation with Canadian offenses, but not have reciprocity with some states? Very odd… Delaware would still report to the persons insurer, yes?</p>
<p>Am confused. Is she licensed in NY or NJ?</p>
<p>***ETA and I just saw your post# 13, bclintonk, where you mentioned a lot of what I inadvertently repeated.</p>
<p>And it looks like NY though some posts say NY/NJ and conversation with a NJ atty. so was confused</p>
<p>OP- Did you say elsewhere your dau goes to Emory? Good thing this didnt happen in GA. The superspeeder laws in GA are very tough!</p>
<p>If there is a fine to pay, be sure she pays it
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<p>Hi jym – yes, she’s a student at Emory.I’ll tell her GA is tough on speeding. I don’t think she has ever gone very far afield though when at school (but what do I know…)</p>
<p>Yes, she has a NY license. She has no intention of dodging the fine. On my “to do” list is finding out how it has to be paid (bank check, money order, cash, debit card). If it all happens at once (judge says “pay this fine” and she has to pay it then and there) they can’t expect people to have a bank check for the correct amount ahead of time. But I’ll find out.</p>
<p>The NJ attorney is one of my employees who also does his share of traffic court work. Sorry for the confusion.</p>
<p>Well if she isn’t going to have a car at school, it won’t matter, but here’s a blurb on the super speeder lw\aw in GA [Super</a> Speeder Frequently Asked Questions - Department of Driver Services](<a href=“http://www.dds.ga.gov/faqs/index.aspx?faqcategoryid=34]Super”>Reinstatement FAQs - Super Speeder | Georgia Department of Driver Services)</p>
<p>I believe in most states if she is there in front of the judge and they work out a deal that includes a fine, she will be expected to pay it at that time.</p>
<p>Personally, I think it is a very positive experience for young drivers to appear in court and see what the process is like, if only to give them a fervent wish to do all they can to avoid reappearing in court again. If it were my kid, I’d have them attend a traffic court session (in your hometown if its more convenient), just so they can view what it’s like and hopefully give them a strong wish to avoid future involvement in traffic court. I’d especially recommend this if the young driver was allowed to just mail in the fine and never have to appear or stand before a judge.</p>
<p>Probably the best thing, driving wise, that happened to my son, was getting a deferral. He isn’t a heavy speeder, just drives like most of us, a little over the speed limit. But he knew he couldn’t get another ticket for a year, or he’d automatically have to pay for both, so it really made him overly conscientious about any possible traffic violation. Since he hasn’t been stopped for years now, I’m assuming that perhaps it made him a safer driver by enforcing habits. I hope.</p>
<p>Not to make light of someone doing 95 mph, but when I sometimes drive on a highway like I-75 on some stretches through Florida or Georgia, if I’m not doing close to 85 mph I’ll almost get pushed off the highway by others going faster. I try to avoid driving on I-75 at night when everyone is speeding, coming back from a trip tired, and the highway is jammed tight three lanes with speeding packs of trucks and cars right on my tail pushing me. My knuckles almost get so white from driving scared with all the nuts on the highway speeding that I can almost use them as headlights driving on the highway at night.</p>
<p>I’m not sure I’d bring up in court the bit about the boot. It seems to me that she was being even more irresponsible driving 95 with a cumbersome boot on one of her feet. A judge might see it the way I do. This is an area where an experienced lawyer might be able to advise based on what he/she has seen in the courtroom or even with a particular judge.</p>
<p>Not to generalize too much, but, there are a lot of females posting in this thread. You should hear some of the stories of what some of the males (including me) did with cars when we were around that age! If my parents had any idea I would have been in serious trouble.</p>
<p>GladGradDad, I am not sharing the dumb things I did. I have driven more that 100mph, but it was not in this country and I was not breaking the law. I did not enjoy it all that much.</p>
<p>Thanks GladGradDad – I’ll have to ask her if she was wearing it when she was pulled over. I think she said she takes it off while driving.</p>
<p>She is supposed to wear it for 6-8 weeks, and it helps her stress fracture heal, so she will probably wear it to court just because she’s supposed to wear it whenever she puts weight on it, but maybe that’s something I’ll run by the attorney. I don’t want it to be “read” as you mentioned, or seen as a pathetic plea for sympathy (like an able-bodied person using a cane).</p>
<p>I too have heard tons of stories (many from men) about how fast they drove when they were younger, etc. Now all I can think of is: I’m glad you didn’t kill someone.</p>
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<p>A part of the sentence is “when they were younger” meaning most of us managed to realize that what we did wasn’t worth it from a risk vs reward perspective. Sometimes people realize it themselves (as in my case for the risky things I did) and sometimes people are assisted in that respect by a law enforcement officer. Hopefully your D has now come to that realization as well. Regardless, the hope is that the risky behavior is eliminated/reduced before someone gets hurt. </p>
<p>Note - I still will drive > 100mph but only if I’m on an autobahn in Germany in the right area and with a decent car. It’s legal and it’s safe as long as one exercises reasonable caution of slowing down where appropriate. Germany’s very good about having speed limits where warranted like around towns, construction, usually congested areas, etc. and they’re strict about people following the rules (and they follow the rules well in Germany). Of course, driving 100mph on a roadway built for it in an area properly signed and with people who drive well is completely different than driving 95 in a 55 where the roadway likely isn’t built for that speed, isn’t signed for that speed, where the relative speeds between the 95 car and the normal 55 cars is too great, and where people don’t drive as rigidly or predictably (i.e. all over the lanes in the USA as opposed to excellent lane discipline in Germany).</p>
<p>The Autobahn is a rare pleasure – I was a passenger in a car there years ago, and everyone followed the rules – you didn’t have crazy drivers slotting in between cars and changing lanes at fast speeds, or tailgating, or missing their exit, coming to a dead stop, then driving in reverse so they could get to it.</p>
<p>I’ve driven on roads like lizard (my least favorite is I-95) — everyone’s going 80+ and leaving zero following distance between cars. Plus huge trucks on either side.</p>
<p>There is a freeway around here where the speed limit is 50 or 55, but EVERYBODY routinely drives 75-80-- the normal freeway speed limit here is 70. I had to take that route to work when we lived in our apartment. I was determined not to speed, as normally I NEVER go more than 5 over, but after two or three near accidents I gave up and started going 60-70. One time a state trooper was driving behind me when I was going 70 and I got scared and slowed to 60, and he passed me and kept going.</p>
<p>Areas like that make me nuts. The police need to either enforce it or the speed limit needs to be changed. If I’d gotten a ticket I would have been absolutely hysterical. I rode that route for a year and never once saw someone get pulled over, and I got into many near accidents trying to go more like 10 over instead of 30.</p>
<p>"…sometimes people are assisted in that respect by a law enforcement officer."</p>
<p>Now that is priceless.</p>
<p>Was today the court date?? What happened?</p>
<p>I’m curious to know how this came out. Is the OP still around to update us?</p>
<p>I am sure OP is still around. She even called out to me on a post recently. I am waving back. Hope it turned out ok for her kid.</p>
<p>I like to keep up with what happens in these situations in different states because I do get asked…</p>
<p>Hi everyone - sorry - I feel like I go from one crisis to another (gross fin aid stuff). I should have updated you all sooner. D showed up on time (I was up all night thinking she’d oversleep and be arrested for failure to appear); attorney #1 met her there; he asked for and got the probation before judgment he had told me about in our initial call and he plead the ticket down to 5 miles over the limit. $500 well spent in my mind. D has to pay me back the $500 out of her summer job money; she also paid the fine and court fees. She is not having use of this car this fall at school.</p>
<p>One tip that may help others: attorney had asked me if she had a clean driving record; I said yes. He said: go on NY DMV website and get her record. I didn’t realize that was something I could get - I just kind of assumed the court could access it. It cost $7 and you get a PDF right away. She presented it at court. No points, no suspension. She has to go 6 months with no moving violations then it’s off her record for good.</p>
<p>I am very relieved. Thanks everyone for the info and support.</p>