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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.)
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 08 2019, @03:31PM (2 children)
Driving flat out is fun. Doesn't matter the actual speed you are going, it's about pushing the machine to its limits.
An older friend and amateur sports car driver tells the story of his two street cars in the 1960s -- a big block 'Vette and a Fiat 500 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_500 [wikipedia.org] . He reports having much more fun on public roads in the little Fiat because he was flat out most of the time. He mostly used the 'Vette to tow his racecar...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Friday February 08 2019, @09:25PM
To go flat out, a track day fee is a lot less trouble than a court date.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Saturday February 09 2019, @03:52AM
"Driving flat out is fun. Doesn't matter the actual speed you are going, it's about pushing the machine to its limits."
It's not the speed that will kill you. Rather it's the coming to a sudden stop when you goof up or or your car breaks down.
I think I heard that from Aaron Kaufman on "Fast n' Loud"
When life isn't going right, go left.