This one has me mad enough to keep me up tonight. Came home and my wife let me know that I had a speeding ticket in the mail from going through West Union 27 days ago!!!
The speed camera had me going 46 in a 35 zone on the way out of town and dinged me for $100. It's my 1st speeding ticket in 25 years of driving, so it has me worked up.
I'm not the first idiot to think I've been had from one of these, but it chaps me that I get this a month after the fact and the only evidence I get is two pictures of my vehicle with a timestamp 0.2 seconds apart. I don't know exactly how the speed sensors work, but I'm guessing it records when my front and rear wheels go over a sensor (there was a single camera ID and a separate single sensor ID on the ticket).
The timestamp must record past a tenth of a second but they round off on the ticket and don't show it. To me 0.2 seconds can mean anything from .15 - .24 seconds. For my car to travel its wheel base of 109.8 inches or 0.002 miles in .15 - .24 seconds, it would me I was going anywhere from 30 - 48 mph. Even if it was exactly 0.2 seconds to travel that distance, it would mean I was going 36 mph.
Let's just send a Polk County plate a ticket a month later saying they were going the speed we start issuing tickets and call it good! I guess this ticket will cost me $100 and a night of sleep...
The speed camera had me going 46 in a 35 zone on the way out of town and dinged me for $100. It's my 1st speeding ticket in 25 years of driving, so it has me worked up.
I'm not the first idiot to think I've been had from one of these, but it chaps me that I get this a month after the fact and the only evidence I get is two pictures of my vehicle with a timestamp 0.2 seconds apart. I don't know exactly how the speed sensors work, but I'm guessing it records when my front and rear wheels go over a sensor (there was a single camera ID and a separate single sensor ID on the ticket).
The timestamp must record past a tenth of a second but they round off on the ticket and don't show it. To me 0.2 seconds can mean anything from .15 - .24 seconds. For my car to travel its wheel base of 109.8 inches or 0.002 miles in .15 - .24 seconds, it would me I was going anywhere from 30 - 48 mph. Even if it was exactly 0.2 seconds to travel that distance, it would mean I was going 36 mph.
Let's just send a Polk County plate a ticket a month later saying they were going the speed we start issuing tickets and call it good! I guess this ticket will cost me $100 and a night of sleep...