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The Worst Speed Trap Cities In North America

We put out a press release yesterday that organized some of the data we've collected in running the National Speed Trap Exchange (www.speedtrap.org) over the past decade. It's a list of the worst speed trap cities in the United States ...

19 Interesting Driving-Related Legal Rulings From This Year

There are hundreds of motorists-related cases that come through the court system each year, but most never attract the attention of the average motorist. What follows is a collection of interesting legal rulings from this year that you may not ...

Columbus, Ohio: Innocent Or Not, You’re Paying Us

If you've read any of our articles in the past, you know that red light ticket cameras have a way of helping city council members forget about basic due process rights. This story from 10TV News in Ohio shows that Columbus, ...

New Police Cars Blend Into The Crowd

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Very soon -- and for the first time in living memory -- it will be next to impossible to visually pick out cop cars from the crowd. For years, it was pretty easy to do that. Even ...

Guilty in Ohio: Speeding Convictions by the Art of Observation

By Gary Biller, NMA Executive Director As outlined in an NMA email alert sent to Association members nationwide in early June, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that a driver can be convicted of speeding based on a police officer’s observation of ...

Illinois Considering Raising Ticket Prices To Save State Police Jobs

In a story that illustrates the connection between police department funding and traffic tickets, the state of Illinois is considering taking a portion of county bond fees collected from minor traffic violations and giving it to the state to help ...

Making Functional Laws Dysfunctional

By Jim Baxter, NMA President There are many traffic laws that function reasonably well---as long as they are not strictly enforced. Enforcing “the letter of the law” can make a reasonable regulation unreasonable. Prior to the passage of the National Maximum Speed ...

Michigan Cities Break The Law To Generate More Speeding Tickets

The Detroit News recently studied ten randomly selected intersections and found that the speed limit was set incorrectly on all ten. In response, State Representative Rick Jones, R-Grand Ledge, will be proposing a bill to require cities to follow the ...

58% Of People Who Fought Traffic Tickets In Washington D.C. Won

How likely is it that I'll win if I fight my traffic ticket in court? This is a question we get a lot and the truth is that it varies pretty wildly depending on the location. It's rare to get a ...

Why Did It Take Nearly 30 Years To Fix A Simple Speed Limit Sign?

In a case that illustrates just how few drivers stand up for their rights in court, a woman in Milwaukie, Oregon successfully got her traffic fine erased after figuring out that the speed limit was posted incorrectly. The road was ...