Speeding CAN be stopped on Summit Parkway!

As I drove home from Food Lion this morning and some wacko went speeding past me on Summit Parkway, I thought of the one way to stop speeders.

The cops will NEVER get it done by writing one ticket at a time. In fact, they don't even write tickets every time they stop a speeder. Too often they issue Warnings, which do no good whatsoever. Two minutes later, the driver is speeding again.

The ONE way to stop the speeding problem is Photo-Radar. The problem right now is that South Carolina does not allow it. Good ol' Gov. Mark Sanford put the kabosh on photo radar in 2010. The wimps in the S.C. State legislation rolled right over. The S.C. House voted 106-0, and the S.C.Senate voted 38-0.

The legislation did pass a joke of a law in 56-5-70(E). An electronic ticket can be issued in S.C. only during stated emergencies, and it must be delivered to the driver within one hour of issuance. In other words, it is impossible to do so.

So much for protecting the law-abiding drivers and passengers in this state!

But it can be restored. All that is needed is a law to rescind the law that prohibits it, and a new law to allow it.

What could happen on Summit Parkway (and all the other roads and highways) in South Carolina)?

Place photo-radar equipment about 1/4-mile past a speed limit sign. If the speed limit is 35MPH and a driver shoots the photo-radar unit at 40MPH, he gets a ticket in the mail. The higher the speed, the ligher the fine. No more flat $100 fines. Set up special Electronic Ticket Courts for those who think they can talk fast enough to get out of the ticket. Require drivers to show up with their lawyers.

The law can be written to protect the innocent. If you borrow my car and blast down to Food Lion and back, when I get the ticket in he mail, all I have to do say that you were driving the car and provide your contact information. Then the ticket will be re-mailed to you.

Paradise Valley, Arizona has used photo-radar successfully since before 1989. They don't have any problem with speeders there.

Will you support Photo-Radar?

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