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posted by mrpg on Friday February 08 2019, @01:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the do-not-try-this-at-home dept.

50 Fastest Speeding Tickets in Texas in 2018:

Don't let the slow drawl fool you. The fine people of Texas like to go fast. Maybe it's all that wide open space, the arrow-straight roads, or just something in the water. Whatever the case, the state routinely clocks some of the fastest speeders in the country—and we got our hands on the 2018 ticket data to show it.

Credit where credit is due: this list of the 50 fastest speeding tickets in Texas in 2018 was inspired by the work of the Houston Chronicle, which usually publishes one in January looking back at the preceding 365 days. But the paper opted not to do one this year, for whatever reason, leaving The Drive to carry on the mission.

Scrounging up the raw data involved filing a public information request with the Texas Department of Public Safety for every single speeding ticket issued by Texas Highway Patrol troopers in excess of 120 mph from January 1 to December 31 last year. We fully expected to never hear back. A couple weeks later, a lawyer for the department responded with a huge spreadsheet showing the date, location, vehicle, and speed for all 228 tickets fitting that description—plus extras like officer notes and the stop's exact GPS coordinates when available.

Besides the expected assortment of muscle cars and performance motorcycles, there are even pickup trucks and a Ford Focus on the list.

Disclaimer: Exceeding the speed limit can be dangerous not only to yourself, but to other vehicles on the road; please keep your high speed activity to track events or places where it is permitted (e.g. German Autobahn.)


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  • (Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 08 2019, @02:19PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 08 2019, @02:19PM (#798295)

    Why is this supposed to be interesting?
    Crap like this is not worth my time and is not worth of Soylentnews.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 08 2019, @02:28PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 08 2019, @02:28PM (#798297)

    Boy, who pissed in your cornflakes this morning?

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday February 08 2019, @03:54PM (1 child)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 08 2019, @03:54PM (#798351) Journal

      She doesn't eat cornflakes. She eats Special K, in an attempt to keep her girlish figure. Seems to be working - she only wears a size six. Errrr, I meant size TWENTY six.

      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 08 2019, @04:42PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 08 2019, @04:42PM (#798395)

        You are not very good at insults. Don't worry it is a neutral observation.

  • (Score: 2) by martyb on Friday February 08 2019, @06:04PM (1 child)

    by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 08 2019, @06:04PM (#798440) Journal
    After WWII, the big thing was car "hacks" -- squeezing more torque and horsepower out of your car. Street racing was not uncommon. They were the "overclockers" of their era. Big Iron had a different meaning back then.
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    • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Saturday February 09 2019, @11:24AM

      by MostCynical (2589) on Saturday February 09 2019, @11:24AM (#798778) Journal

      Then the government discovered they could impose fines for going "too fast", and a new revenue source wass found, and the definition of "too fast" slowly dropped, until the "speed limit" is now about 10 to 20% too low on freeways, but speed cameras and point to point speed monitoring is now ubiquitous, and lucrative [highwaysindustry.com]

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