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Josh111
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To all who live or drive in Virginia:
A bill passed to increase the speed limit in virginia on rural interstate highways to 70 MPH from 65 MPH. This in itself is not bad, however consider the following:
In Virginia, driving 20 MPH or more above posted speed is reckless driving. Additionally, driving at any speed above 80 MPH is reckless driving regardless of the posted speed limit. The penalty for reckless driving is mandatory court appearance, a fine of $750, and possible jail time(although jail time is rarely imposed).
Just think of the possible circumstance, you are driving at a speed which is safe for the traffic, say maybe 73 MPH and then there is someone going 60 in the right lane. You change lanes to pass and in order to not cause a danger for the faster drivers in that lane, you speed up to 81 MPH. This would be considered reckless driving. It is not hard in traffic especially to be doing 11 miles over the speed limit for a short time. Those of us who live here know Virginia police probably will give reckless driving tickets for such.
I suggest as many as care should write to their state senators and congressman and request at least that since the speed limit is increased by 5 MPH, the reckless driving threshold also be increased by 5 MPH.
Here is a link below to find your representatives:
http://conview.state.va.us/whosmy.nsf/main?openform
A bill passed to increase the speed limit in virginia on rural interstate highways to 70 MPH from 65 MPH. This in itself is not bad, however consider the following:
In Virginia, driving 20 MPH or more above posted speed is reckless driving. Additionally, driving at any speed above 80 MPH is reckless driving regardless of the posted speed limit. The penalty for reckless driving is mandatory court appearance, a fine of $750, and possible jail time(although jail time is rarely imposed).
Just think of the possible circumstance, you are driving at a speed which is safe for the traffic, say maybe 73 MPH and then there is someone going 60 in the right lane. You change lanes to pass and in order to not cause a danger for the faster drivers in that lane, you speed up to 81 MPH. This would be considered reckless driving. It is not hard in traffic especially to be doing 11 miles over the speed limit for a short time. Those of us who live here know Virginia police probably will give reckless driving tickets for such.
I suggest as many as care should write to their state senators and congressman and request at least that since the speed limit is increased by 5 MPH, the reckless driving threshold also be increased by 5 MPH.
Here is a link below to find your representatives:
http://conview.state.va.us/whosmy.nsf/main?openform
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