Camera Speeding Tickets - Pay??

[mustangcy]

So in Howard County Iowa...the **** hole of the state I get two camera tickets both for going 41 in a 30. $125 each. Anyone get these types of tickets? I got one in Cedar Rapids a few years ago and never paid it, nothing ever happened.

As a side note I got a real speeding ticket in Howard county the night of one of the camera tickets...so 3 ******* tickets in two days from this place! Before I get the whole "slow down *******" speech I was driving my wife up to Mayo for Cancer treatment and I've not had more than 3 tickets in my life, I'm not a speeder. I can't help but feel going 11 over and racking up $375 in tickets (at a time I simply can't afford them) is just burning me up. This county and town of Chester is an absolute speed trap, it's disgracefull.

If I just ignore them (I will pay the real ticket obviously) anyone have any thoughts?

 

[wxman1]

As you said...you could try just slowing down to 11 over while you pass them since you seem to know where they are at....

 

[Cyfan1965]

The magistrate who lives next door told my wife to pay hers from Cedar Rapids that she has got in the last month. They are legal again and CR are enforcing.

 

[mustangcy]

The magistrate who lives next door told my wife to pay hers from Cedar Rapids that she has got in the last month. They are legal again and CR are enforcing.

How are they enforcing? Small claims?

 

[1UNI2ISU]

Just pay it. Not worth the credit hit when they turn it over to collections.

 

[mustangcy]

As you said...you could try just slowing down to 11 over while you pass them since you seem to know where they are at....

Well NOW I know where they are at. Whose ever heard of a tiny town with speeding cameras?

 

[Cyinthenorth]

Got one driving thru CR once. Just paid it to avoid the cat 'n mouse headache of debating whether I would pay it or not

 

[Clonehomer]

Could you claim double jeopardy as the first ticket had not arrived yet to provide correction before the second incident? Otherwise, what's to prevent a town from putting a camera every 100 feet and hitting you for a ticket when you don't slow down? Might not get out of all of them, but you might get one or two thrown out if they all happened on the same day.

 

[ClonesFTW]

They are a joke until you try to refi/sell your home and there's an unpaid $75 speeding ticket judgement on the title. Pay it.

 

[Cyfan1965]

Got one driving thru CR once. Just paid it to avoid the cat 'n mouse headache of debating whether I would pay it or not

They were off for a couple of years when the court case was going on. They are back on now and if you don't pay you will be sent to collections.

 

[Cyinthenorth]

They were off for a couple of years when the court case was going on. They are back on now and if you don't pay you will be sent to collections.

Wonder what the time line would have been. Mine happened I want to say in like 2015 or 16

 

[cyphoon]

I refused to pay a couple of red light tickets that were assessed to my vehicle in Clive. They deducted it from my state tax refund a year later. Didn't see an impact on my credit score.

Based on my experience, you might have better luck fighting it in court.

fwiw, I was not the driver in either case.

H

 

[Cyrealist]

I'm surprised they're that expensive. I'm thinking the camera ones won't go on your record as moving violations. If they did, I would try to get at least one of them dropped so your insurance doesn't go through the roof. Either way, I agree to pay them or get them resolved some other way.

 

[Scruff]

My policy is: if I commit the crime, I pay the fine.

Two places its easy to speed and get caught: a single camera right after a reduction in speed limit (Cedar Rapids) and roads in town that are nice-n-wide so they feel like you should be driving 45, but the town slapped a 25 mph limit on them. Cops love to patrol those roads too, cause they know everyone is going faster than they're supposed to.

I'm usually at 5 over if I feel like speeding that day. I know many others do the 8 your great, 9 your mine philosophy. When one gets to 11+ over, I think many will lose sympathy unless it was a real emergency.

 

[NoCreativity]

Lol, you literally have " Mustang" in your username and this is the first time you've ever sped in your life?

I'm not buying your story.

 

[cycloner29]

The camera ones don’t go on your record. My problem was our daughter’s car is under my name and when I started getting these tickets in the mail, I was pretty upset. She made it sound like it was no big deal. Kinda like her parking tickets she got when she lived in Iowa City. I just screen shotted the statements to her and told her to pay them on-line.

 

[Rabbuk]

I refused to pay a couple of red light tickets that were assessed to my vehicle in Clive. They deducted it from my state tax refund a year later. Didn't see an impact on my credit score.

Based on my experience, you might have better luck fighting it in court.

fwiw, I was not the driver in either case.

H

I think the not the driver thing is not a thing the city cares about at least in cedar rapids. They just fine the registered person and let them try to convince the driver to pay them back. I had a buddy who went to court and tried to use that and was basically told to kick rocks.

 

[mynameisjonas]

How are they enforcing? Small claims?

I doubt they would go through small claims. Probably send you to collections.

 

[pourcyne]

Man up and pay it.

 

[clone52]

I'm surprised they're that expensive. I'm thinking the camera ones won't go on your record as moving violations. If they did, I would try to get at least one of them dropped so your insurance doesn't go through the roof. Either way, I agree to pay them or get them resolved some other way.

Yeah, camera ones are like a parking ticket.