check your six ! - CALIFORNIA traffic fines up for 2010

Gunner · #1 (**permalink**) 02-04-2010, 12:27 AM

Source for this?

berzerko · #2 (**permalink**) 02-04-2010, 05:45 AM

here in ny which is just as scraped for funds they are issuing new plates at a cost of $25 per reg veh. neting NYS something like $125 mil

I recentlly got pulled over in my beater going into manhattan for a tinted window violation which got me $330 in fines. the best part is that I got 2 tickets one for the driver side one for the passanger. I thought about fighting it but it is an appearance ticket up in harlem which would cost me more than the violation and the city knows that.

there was a time not so long ago that to to get pulled over for a traffic violation in the city of NY you basiclly needed to shoot a gun out the window of the moving car but the times they are a changing

Bobby

Woodz428 · #3 (**permalink**) 02-04-2010, 06:23 AM

There is a movement here to get rid of front plates too. Both sides are arguing in the name of $$. The "keepers" seem to be primarily LEO types, indicating some interest in collecting fines. I live 45 minutes from Indiana which has had the rear plate since I was in High School( probably never had a front one), Indiana traffic comes and goes through all the time. That's not counting other single plate states that use the 2 Interstates that intersect by me. It seems like a way to "interest" an officer watching traffic to follow a suspect vehicle until they determine that it is a state that has no front plate. I guess with all other crime now extinct, they can go after the real issue...missing front plates

. With the exception of the rising number of unsolved murders. But those only protect the public and do little to keep the coffers of the "gods" full.
The most interesting thing I saw on that list of fines is that running a redlight is higher than a stop sign. That seems to be geared directly at revenue. Stop signs are always STOP. Whereas lights, as has been illustrated in regards to the camera lights, can vary and one could easily be ticketed for running a stop light when it was more a product of light timing and traffic flow. Running a Stoplight is far more blatant,IMHO. Although I have a bias against both, since the only accidents I have ever been in were a direct result of the other driver doing one or the other.

Ron61 · #4 (**permalink**) 02-04-2010, 06:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Woodz428

There is a movement here to get rid of front plates too. Both sides are arguing in the name of $$. The "keepers" seem to be primarily LEO types, indicating some interest in collecting fines. I live 45 minutes from Indiana and they have only had the rear plate since I was in High School( probably never had a front one), Indiana traffic comes and goes through all the time. That's not counting other single plate states that use the 2 Interstates that intersect buy me. It seems like a way to "interest" an officer watching traffic to follow a suspect vehicle until theydetermine that it is a state that has no front plate. I guess with all other crime now extinct, they can go after the real issue...missing front plates

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The most interesting thing I saw on that list of fines is that running a redlight is higher than a stop sign. That seems to be geared directly at revenue. Stop signs are always STOP. Whereas lights, as has been illustrated in regards to the camera lights, can vary and one could easily be ticketed for running a stop light when it was more a product of light timing and traffic flow. Running a Stoplight is far more blatant,IMHO. Although I have a bias against both, since the only accidents I have ever been in were a direct result of the other driver doing one or the other.

I agree with you, but maybe the red light fines would be higher because they normally have them at busier intersections and a lot of stop signs are on the lightly traveled roads and streets.

Ron

*13* · #5 (**permalink**) 02-04-2010, 07:06 AM

VC 23123(A) - $148 - Drive using wireless phone not hands free, First offense
VC 23123(A) - $256 - Drive using wireless phone not hands free, For each subsequent offense.

Studies have proven for years that driving while talking on your cell phone can be the equivalent to driving while intoxicated. I have yet to see it enforced & have even seen Cops with a cell phone to their ear. This law is stupid, if not enforced.
All in all it amazes me how laid back the Police are here in SoCal, about traffic violations. Being from the NW, it almost seems you'ld have to ram a police car to get a ticket here.

Ron61 · #6 (**permalink**) 02-04-2010, 07:29 AM

No one around here pays any attention to that cell phone law either. It seems that almost every vehicle I see going down the highway the driver has a cell phone in his or her ear. And I have yet to hear of one person up here getting a ticket for that. Except the ones that have wrecks and they kind of throw the cell phone into the mix.

Ron