11-26-2007, 06:51 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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Hawaii speeding law is 30 mph over posted or 80 mph anywhere is 'exessive speeding', pretty tough potential sentence, including jail time. It's SO serious a Judge requires you to have a lawyer if you plead not guilty.
The numbers: About 40% are for speeding 30 mph over posted, the rest 80 mph or more. LOTS of 25 mph posted areas on the Island, some of them downright stupid with such a low number. I've found myself on my motorcycle just keeping up with the flow of traffic in one posted 25 mph area, and EVERYONE was doing 50 or better! I could see 55 if you weren't being careful.
Recently those with excessive tickets who pled not guilty WALKED out of court, charges dismissed. The law currently is unenforcable, heres why. Lawyers are asking the prosecution for records of the radar and/or calibration of the patrol speedometers, prosecutors are arguing about how much and what data is applicable to give the defense. The single garage in town who calibrates the police speedometers (the owner) has been subpeoned several times to answer questions about the calibration methods, he refuses to come to court. Says he's 'to busy', and likely he is, but until the issue is resolved no enforcement will be possible.
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