‘Extreme speeders’ outrage readers

July

Speeding on Lower Hudson Valley roads and highways is a perenial topic of debate among residents, so a story today in The Journal News and on LoHud.com about extreme speeders had the forums heating up.
Here’s one reader’s opinion:

Police need to start worrying less about speeders and more about horrible drivers in general. … Speed by itself doesn’t kill, it’s stupid, inexperienced or careless drivers that do.

Another wrote:

I want the cops focusing on the overaggressive drivers, the drunks, the teenagers, the distracted drivers and so forth.

A third offered this solution:

If the speed gun catches you, it should automatically generate a ticket that can’t be cried out of. There should be no warnings, no ‘second chances’. Too many innocent people have gotten killed because of reckless drivers. They didn’t get a second chance.

Comments from law enforcement personnel that troopers rarely pull over drivers going 10-20 mph over the limit because they are concentrating on the extreme speeders provoked a strong response from readers, such as this post:

I’m dismayed that ‘routine speeders’ doing 75 mph are seldomly pulled over by law enforcement.

Another reader continued:

Speeding is speeding, the average garden variety driver who goes 10 or 15 over the limit needs to be reeled in.

Several readers offered suggestions to curb speeding, such as this thought:

Jail time and real punishment for these offenses will do more to stop this irresponsible behavior and endangerment to innocent people. I really do not care if these speeders run off the road and kill themselves but more than likely they are going to kill others who are not speeding.

And finally, one reader had this proposal:

Make vehicles that can’t go over 70!

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 at 11:08 am by Tracey Princiotta. | Email This Post

2 Responses to “‘Extreme speeders’ outrage readers”

farmfan34 July 15th, 2009 at 11:32 am
The posters on LoHud are such hypocrites. Tracey, how do all these people keep their glass houses clean?
Colour1 July 16th, 2009 at 9:19 am
I travel the highways of Westchester a lot! If you think that this is speeding??? go out to Long Island!!! take a ride down the Jersy TPK, cruise down interstate 85 in Virginia!! You need a Nascar licence!!!
Speed is one thing, it’s the “zig-zaging” that really indangers the other drivers! Then add the talking on the cell phone into the mixx as well as “texting” then you’ve got a bad way to go!!
People go to jail all the time, thats just “BS”!!!
I say impound and revoke there licence for five days per mile over the “gracelimit” !!!
To the person that said : make cars that won’t do more than 70 mph??? Thats just stupid to even say that! Where do you think racing came from??? Making what was into what could be!
Talk about racing, there use to be many racing tracks in the NY area, but there gone, maybe bring them back and there wouldn’t be racing on the streets!

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