Thread: Fast Factoid

Just saw this factoid on TV. The fastest speeding ticket ever issued in the USA was 242 mph in a 75 mph zone somewhere in the state of Texas.

That's fast.


World’s Fastest Speeding Ticket from:
Weiss & Associates, PC

New York Traffic Ticket Lawyer



For those of you stressing out about your speeding violation, it could be worse.

The fastest known speeding ticket was issued in May 2003 in Texas. The motorist was operating a Koenigseggs CCR, a Swedish sports car and was allegedly going 242 mph (389 km/hr) in a 75 mph zone. The driver was arrested and his sport car was towed.

In my firm, the record high speeding ticket defended by us was a 200 mph ticket on the Lido Parkway in Nassau County. Our lead-footed client was charged with exceeding the 55 mph limit in his Porsche Turbo Carrera but the officer failed to write any amount for that speed. The Nassau County Traffic & Parking Violations Agency, located at 16 Cooper Street, Hempstead, NY, has an unusual policy when confronted by such omissions. It inserts 200 mph as the charged speed because their clerks cannot enter the traffic summons unless some number is added to this field. Its policy is thus to insert 200 mph when the officer omits this information.

Anyway, I walked in thinking I was facing a garden variety speeding ticket and instead was told that my client was charged with a whopping 200 mph speeding ticket. Of course, after the excitement for me of fighting such a ticket, I learned of the explanation of the “200 mph” charge and, more importantly, I was able to get this ticket dismissed as defective (i.e., based on the failure to allege how fast over the 55-mph limit my client was proceeding).

In any event, it is a record (albeit with an asterisk). and, more importantly, was chocked up as a win. Click on the link if you’d like to see what a 200 mph traffic ticket looks like as well as the dismissal slip.

Did they say what type of vehicle it was?

I had my Roush impounded fo 30 days, 160 in a 55,outran the LEOs bigtime,could not outrun the radios

Originally Posted by Leatherstockiings

Did they say what type of vehicle it was?

Koenigseggs CCR, a Swedish sports car

One of our agents was transporting a car to our office from Dallas to Albuquerque and he was stopped by the Texas Highway patrol doing 210 MPH. he was driving an illegal Porsche imported into the U.S by a Drug dealer. it was an exotic model even by Porsche standards. A Carrera with dual turbos.

One of our car club members on a club excursion got written for 161 in New Mexico in his Lotus Esprit when he decided to find out how fast will it go. Said he was happy to get a break on the speed...As he was passing 180 when he go lit up. He was let go with just the written ticket but had to return to personally appear before a judge. He paid a couple hundred dollar fine under the condition he fessed up to the judge how fast he was really going.

In AZ, exceeding 85 is defined as criminal speeding and carries a 30 day jail penalty, in addition to the fine and towing fees.