SPEEDING TICKET STING

[bogey1]

Starting today, Pennsylvania will launch a 30 day speeding ticket frenzy. The state estimates that 9 million dollars will be generated in speeding tickets. 1 million will go to pay state troopers' overtime. There will be 50 state troopers on duty at all times patrolling the 9 main intersections and highways. They are the following:

I-279 north and south
I-376 east and west
I-76 east and west
I-80 east and west
I-79 north and south
I-70 east and west
PA-60
PA-66
US-22

5 mph above the limit can justify a ticket and every state trooper is supposed to pull a car over and write a ticket every 10 to 20 minutes. They have issued 30 brand new unmarked Dodge Charger Police cruisers and are bringing I n all of their part timers on full time. If you work in western Pennsylvania, you will probably take one of these highways. It's up to you how fast you are going when they clock you. KDKA and WDVE confirmed all of this. So be safe and don't forget speeding tickets are on you.

Driving Ticket fine increase in PA:

Starting on August 15th, the price of a ticket for violation of PA Law 39:3-29 (failure to show your driver's license, registration, or insurance card at the time you are stopped) is going from $44.00 to $173.00. Please make sure your vehicles have the proper documents in them. If you jump in the car to run to the store and forget your wallet with your license in it and you are stopped.... Oh well... you just spent $173. And the fine for not having all three documents is $519!!!



Diane Kurman
Clerk of Courts-Criminal Division
(215) 348-6826

[Steve in PA]

Sorry.......the information is bogus. I saw this very same thing posted on a local police/fire/ems board.

While you "could" be cited for not having your driver's license, the law itself states you have (15) days to produce a valid driver's license and (5) days to produce your vehicle and insurance information.

Also, the law states that in a posted 55mph zone, no citation can be written until the driver is going +6 over that.

PSP does not drive Dodge Chargers.

PSP does not have part-time troopers.

Sorry. 100% bogus.

[Pa. Patriot]

This rumor seems to circulate every few monts or so.