So far I am lucky I guess...First ticket was in the city during rush hour - 48 in a 35 zone. Cost: $70 That was in my first car, my '89 Chevy Blazer Then a year later is my Highschool graduation, I get a Jeep Cherokee for a car, on my way to a race I get picked up by a PLANE flying overhead that radioed the State Patrol later on. 82mph in 65 zone, and the fine: $200First ticket was 4 points, a year went by so it dropped to two. Then I get this 2nd ticket, and since I was a probitionary liscence the points were doubled. 4 become 8, and I am up to 10 points total allowed out of 12. Well, the 2 pts are gone now, and 1 more year and my record is clean again - nothing yet in the Vibe (of course, I've had it all of 2 weeks this week) but I am a bit more careful driving these days ... that $200 really hit me hard >_On a side note, for anyone taking a trip to Ohio anytime soon, check this out, if you ever plan on driving through a town called "New Rome" do whatever you can to bypass it, it is the worst traffic city in the USA - and they only have a 1,000foot stretch of road to work with. Read the stories and stay away:
http://www.newromesucks.comJust thought I'd pass on this info, getting a ticket in such a bass-ackwards place as New Rome isn't right ...