UK citizen, class 3 misdemeanour for speeding will it affect re-entering US?
can speeding in your car be classed as a criminal offence. Your living in a nazi state and you dont know it.
Oct 11th 2007, 1:36 pm
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Re: UK citizen, class 3 misdemeanour for speeding will it affect re-entering US?
Oct 11th 2007, 2:48 pm
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Re: UK citizen, class 3 misdemeanour for speeding will it affect re-entering US?
depends on the driving conditions...if it's a nice sunny day, sod it, but pissing it down with commuter traffic about to start...
Oct 11th 2007, 4:10 pm
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Re: UK citizen, class 3 misdemeanour for speeding will it affect re-entering US?
i suppose time is running out for me to keep using my german lic. no bugger can understand it so they tell me to slow down and tell me to go on my merry way... too much paper work
Oct 11th 2007, 5:52 pm
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Re: UK citizen, class 3 misdemeanour for speeding will it affect re-entering US?
Jim.
Oct 11th 2007, 6:11 pm
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Re: UK citizen, class 3 misdemeanour for speeding will it affect re-entering US?
It was Montana, and the "reasonable and prudent" limit was during daylight hours only.
The state supreme court found it to be unconstitutional, claiming that it was not possible to enforce a statute that allowed for so much individual discretion. The real reason for the decision may have been that the state was tiring of its reputation as operating the Montanabahn, with some drivers having been acquitted by juries for speeds above 100 mph because the speeds were found to be reasonable and prudent.
Before the era of the 55 mph limit, Montana and Nevada had both had reasonable and prudent limits, so it's hard to imagine that a law that Montana had had for many years had suddenly become problematic.
In any case, the daytime limit in Montana is now 75 mph, and the highest limit in the US is in Texas (80 mph.) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...7-01-11.jpgFor the nostalgic among you, here's a pic of the old Montana speed limit sign: http://www.us-highways.com/montana/mtspeedsign.jpg
The state supreme court found it to be unconstitutional, claiming that it was not possible to enforce a statute that allowed for so much individual discretion. The real reason for the decision may have been that the state was tiring of its reputation as operating the Montanabahn, with some drivers having been acquitted by juries for speeds above 100 mph because the speeds were found to be reasonable and prudent.
Before the era of the 55 mph limit, Montana and Nevada had both had reasonable and prudent limits, so it's hard to imagine that a law that Montana had had for many years had suddenly become problematic.
In any case, the daytime limit in Montana is now 75 mph, and the highest limit in the US is in Texas (80 mph.) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...7-01-11.jpgFor the nostalgic among you, here's a pic of the old Montana speed limit sign: http://www.us-highways.com/montana/mtspeedsign.jpg
Oct 11th 2007, 6:12 pm
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Re: UK citizen, class 3 misdemeanour for speeding will it affect re-entering US?
Thank you for that.. I knew it didn't look right.. we passed through there on a road trip at the time... it's a bit of a blur!
Oct 12th 2007, 2:10 am
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Re: UK citizen, class 3 misdemeanour for speeding will it affect re-entering US?
It was Montana, and the "reasonable and prudent" limit was during daylight hours only.
The state supreme court found it to be unconstitutional, claiming that it was not possible to enforce a statute that allowed for so much individual discretion. The real reason for the decision may have been that the state was tiring of its reputation as operating the Montanabahn, with some drivers having been acquitted by juries for speeds above 100 mph because the speeds were found to be reasonable and prudent.
Before the era of the 55 mph limit, Montana and Nevada had both had reasonable and prudent limits, so it's hard to imagine that a law that Montana had had for many years had suddenly become problematic.
In any case, the daytime limit in Montana is now 75 mph, and the highest limit in the US is in Texas (80 mph.) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...7-01-11.jpgFor the nostalgic among you, here's a pic of the old Montana speed limit sign: http://www.us-highways.com/montana/mtspeedsign.jpg
The state supreme court found it to be unconstitutional, claiming that it was not possible to enforce a statute that allowed for so much individual discretion. The real reason for the decision may have been that the state was tiring of its reputation as operating the Montanabahn, with some drivers having been acquitted by juries for speeds above 100 mph because the speeds were found to be reasonable and prudent.
Before the era of the 55 mph limit, Montana and Nevada had both had reasonable and prudent limits, so it's hard to imagine that a law that Montana had had for many years had suddenly become problematic.
In any case, the daytime limit in Montana is now 75 mph, and the highest limit in the US is in Texas (80 mph.) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...7-01-11.jpgFor the nostalgic among you, here's a pic of the old Montana speed limit sign: http://www.us-highways.com/montana/mtspeedsign.jpg
Oct 12th 2007, 3:29 am
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Re: UK citizen, class 3 misdemeanour for speeding will it affect re-entering US?
we are obviously too slow for you. I think when we were driving out towards El Paso way on route for New Mexico it was 75mph
Oct 12th 2007, 4:03 am
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Re: UK citizen, class 3 misdemeanour for speeding will it affect re-entering US?
I've been down that neck of the woods, it's empty.
Oct 12th 2007, 4:17 am
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Re: UK citizen, class 3 misdemeanour for speeding will it affect re-entering US?
The governor of Texas is promoting the creation of a NAFTA trade corridor that would include an interstate with an 85 mph speed limit. You might want to send a letter expressing your support...
Until recently, the Northern Territory of Australia had many rural stretches of highway without speed limits (there are no motorways there, these are only two-lane highways), but now there is a limit of 130 km/h. So you won't being seeing any more of these down undah: http://img.drive.com.au/drive_images...8/8SignM_m.jpg
Not that it was ever such a great idea to go much over that, anyway. Kangaroos are not exactly the most clever of animals when it comes to avoiding traffic, and cars don't tend to fare all that well after a roo encounter.
Until recently, the Northern Territory of Australia had many rural stretches of highway without speed limits (there are no motorways there, these are only two-lane highways), but now there is a limit of 130 km/h. So you won't being seeing any more of these down undah: http://img.drive.com.au/drive_images...8/8SignM_m.jpg
Not that it was ever such a great idea to go much over that, anyway. Kangaroos are not exactly the most clever of animals when it comes to avoiding traffic, and cars don't tend to fare all that well after a roo encounter.