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State Highway 17 near Mile Marker 430   Fort Davis, Texas

Driving along Texas 17 on a Saturday afternoon I was moving at what the state trooper clocked as 79 mph. The speed limit was 55 mph. Persons driving in this part of rural Texas will understand that most 2 lane roads not in a town or city are posted at 70 mph. I was not in a town or city, nor were we approaching one. I must have missed the speed limit sign and so did several others.

As I turned a curve, I saw one motorist pulled over, along with a state trooper. The trooper walked out onto the road and motioned for me to pull over which I did. The trooper was not holding a radar gun so I'm not sure how she arrived at my speed. She also failed to stop the truck that was following directly behind me and maintaining the same speed as I.

Eventually she wrote me a ticket ($205) after having already issued the other motorist a ticket, too. While she was writing me up, she repeated her procedure and motioned for another vehicle to pull over, presumeably to write yet another ticket. Three tickets in about 30 minutes in Jeff Davis County, a rural section of west Texas is certainly not bad for a single officer.

My final bill was $389 since I missed the date to respond. I was on vacation (my reason for being in the area was a holiday) and failed to remember to respond by the date which was 10 days after the ticket. Oddly, I noticed a note on the ticket which clearly states that by presenting either a valid drivers license or proof of current insurance coverage within 10 days of the ticket would result in having your charges dropped. What strikes me as odd about this stipulation is that the state trooper would have, and in fact did ask for and receive a valid drivers license and proof of insurance while she had me stopped on the roadside. This option strikes me as truly odd, but I sure wish I'd noticed it earlier.

Did I mention it was the 31st of the month so I suspect a quota was the reason so many of us got pulled over that day.

Feb 17, 2004   Texas   0 comments

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