Top 20 speeding tickets in Texas in 2017

[Captain Blood]

I wasn't on this list. Maybe next year.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/...t5R&ocid=ientp

[8k4]

Most are bikes

[Captain Blood]

Interestingly, the BMW on here was an I8

[c1pher]

Originally Posted by 8k4

Most are bikes

It’s very tempting on a bike because they can get up to those speeds and back down very quickly. Plus it’s much more thrilling than in a car. You get that tunnel vision.

[Viffermike]

Originally Posted by MGM135is

It’s very tempting on a bike because they can get up to those speeds and back down very quickly. Plus it’s much more thrilling than in a car. You get that tunnel vision.

It's also common knowledge that almost all Texas police won't chase a bike for public safety concerns.

That doesn't mean that most Texas police won't set up a road block for a bike, or issue an APB for a bike, or institute a radio relay bulletin for neighboring agencies for a bike. No wheeled vehicle can outrun anything measured in thousands or millions of Hertz, after all ...

[EJT86]

Originally Posted by Real Dodger

Maybe next year.

“Maybe next year”? Why would you wanna get caught lol

[Dthltm]

Good to know I wouldn't quite have made the top 20 if I'd been caught going WOT in my 135i as I'm prone to doing on the weekends sometimes.

[RM7]

Strong showings by the G8/SS

[KingOfJericho]

Should have just put the link and the list to save people the click...

#20: 139 mph in a 75 mph zone
Road: I-20 in Eastland County
Ride: Red 2007 Suzuki motorcycle

#19: 140 mph in a 65 mph zone
Road: I-10 in Bexar County
Ride: Blue 2008 Honda CBR

#18: 140 mph in a 65 mph zone
Road: I-10 in Bexar County
Ride: Black 2008 Yamaha motorcycle

#17: 140 mph in a 60 mph zone
Road: SP-601 in El Paso County
Ride: 2015 Aprilia RSV

#16: 140 mph in a 50 mph zone
Road: Custer Road in Collin County
Ride: 2015 Ford Mustang

#15: 143 mph in a 75 mph zone
Road: US-90 in Coryell County
Ride: Black 2013 Kawasaki motorcycle

#14: 143 mph in an 80 mph zone
Road: TW-130 service road in Williamson County
Ride: Black 2014 BMW i8

#13: 144 mph in a 75 mph zone
Road: US-190 in Coryell County
Ride: Blue 2015 Suzuki motorcycle

#12: 144 mph in a 75 mph zone
Road: US-190 in Coryell County
Ride: Green 2016 Yamaha motorcycle

#11: 145 mph in a 75 mph zone
Road: SH-6 in Falls County
Ride: Red 2009 Pontiac G8 GT

#10: 146 mph in a 65 mph zone
Road: SH-67 in Johnson County
Ride: White 2017 Chevrolet Corvette

#9: 149 mph in a 75 mph zone
Road: SH-70 in Fisher County
Ride: White 2017 Suzuki GSX

#8: 150 mph in a 70 mph zone
Road: I-35 in Hays County
Ride: Blue 2009 Suzuki GSF

#7: 155 mph in a 75 mph zone
Road: US-81 in Wise County
Ride: Black 2016 Kawasaki 800

#6: 156 mph in a 75 mph zone
Road: I-40 in Carson County
Ride: Red 2016 Chevrolet (no model listed)

#5: 156 mph in a 70 mph zone
Road: SH-195 in Williamson County
Ride: Black 2006 Suzuki GSX

#4: 156 mph in a 70 mph zone
Road: SH-195 in Williamson County
Ride: 2014 Chevrolet SS

#3: 160 mph in a 75 mph zone
Road: SH-44 in Nueces County
Ride: Red 2006 Suzuki motorcycle

#2: 160 mph in a 55 mph zone
Road: I-45 in Galveston County
Ride: Silver 2012 Dodge Challenger SRT8

#1: 181 mph in a 75 mph zone
Road: US-90 in Coryell County
Ride: Red 2012 Honda CBR1000

[GOLFFRR]

OMG what happens to you when you get pulled over at that speed? Jail I would assume and lost of license. thats insane, I get scared when I get over 5 mph

[Red Bread]

I used to work three weeks in Germany and a week back here, flying home on Sundays. One Monday morning, I was driving to work in my old M Coupe. I thought, that's weird, what's a motorcycle cop doing on the side of the road? Oh, wait, I'm back in TX!

Looked down, was doing a tick over 130 mph on 114. Thought I was going to have to figure out how to get bailed out of jail. Put on the hazards, pulled over directly behind the officer before he'd pulled out, unsurprisingly, he had fired up his lights. A quick conversation and explanation of my stupidity and he asked to see my passport and let me go with a warning. Luckiest speeding story I have.

Since then I seem to get a ticket any time I even consider speeding. But that one time...

Sadly, looks like I still wouldn't have cracked the top 20.

[Captain Blood]

Originally Posted by Red Bread

I used to work three weeks in Germany and a week back here, flying home on Sundays. One Monday morning, I was driving to work in my old M Coupe. I thought, that's weird, what's a motorcycle cop doing on the side of the road? Oh, wait, I'm back in TX!

Looked down, was doing a tick over 130 mph on 114. Thought I was going to have to figure out how to get bailed out of jail. Put on the hazards, pulled over directly behind the officer before he'd pulled out, unsurprisingly, he had fired up his lights. A quick conversation and explanation of my stupidity and he asked to see my passport and let me go with a warning. Luckiest speeding story I have.

Since then I seem to get a ticket any time I even consider speeding. But that one time...

Sadly, looks like I still wouldn't have cracked the top 20.

Was this in the Dallas area? Certainly not in Irving, Southlake, Lewisville, or Grapevine.

[Red Bread]

Originally Posted by Real Dodger

Was this in the Dallas area? Certainly not in Irving, Southlake, Lewisville, or Grapevine.

Actually an Irving cop. I was sure I was headed to the clink. I've had a handful of Irving tickets since then, so I know their lack of a sense of humor.

[Captain Blood]

Originally Posted by Red Bread

Actually an Irving cop. I was sure I was headed to the clink. I've had a handful of Irving tickets since then, so I know their lack of a sense of humor.

Irving
tickets are really only for revenue generation. Disgusting.

[Red Bread]

Originally Posted by Real Dodger

Irving
tickets are really only for revenue generation. Disgusting.

Absolutely. I work in Las Colinas and drive about twenty miles in Dallas and see about three cops a week. The two miles I spend in Irving I see two or three traffic cops each way, each day. Don't know why they haven't been flagged for over reaching.

[Graves]

Originally Posted by GOLFFRR

OMG what happens to you when you get pulled over at that speed? Jail I would assume and lost of license. thats insane, I get scared when I get over 5 mph

I got nabbed in 2004 when I first got my 2004 Cobra. Local sheriff got me for 153 in a 25. Not my proudest moment, but I got arrested, received a $3,560 fine; however, they let me keep my license because I was about to deploy to Iraq in a week for the second time.

[Viffermike]

Originally Posted by Red Bread

Absolutely. I work in Las Colinas and drive about twenty miles in Dallas and see about three cops a week. The two miles I spend in Irving I see two or three traffic cops each way, each day. Don't know why they haven't been flagged for over reaching.

Probably the same reasons Grand Prairie hasn't ever been flagged. Or Carrollton. Grapevine used to be kindler and gentler, but all that construction, the Grapevine Mills/121 boom, and the TMS blast on 114 made that agency ornery and hungry ... at least Southlake/Westlake/Roanoke is still relatively permissive ...

[RM7]

Originally Posted by GOLFFRR

OMG what happens to you when you get pulled over at that speed? Jail I would assume and lost of license. thats insane, I get scared when I get over 5 mph

As someone that regulates and enforces laws (in a different realm), I understand how enforcement usually works. They try to target the biggest risk, this means school zones, residential areas, areas that have a high concentration of people or congestion, places that have high incidences of accidents (certain city locations) and so on. This kind of enforcement rarely happens on deserted roads or mountain roads unless the actions are endangering other people, this is why the tickets in these situations are often “written down” by the officer to a speed that wouldn’t require incarceration, even when it’s above. Some people just don’t get it and roll through stops in neighborhoods, speed through them, try to move 20+mph faster than the surrounding traffic, weaving in and out, and so on. Those are the idiots they are trying to catch and most likely, all of us have been that person at least at sometime in our life. The smart ones grow out of it before it costs a life.

[Captain Blood]

Originally Posted by Viffermike

Probably the same reasons Grand Prairie hasn't ever been flagged. Or Carrollton. Grapevine used to be kindler and gentler, but all that construction, the Grapevine Mills/121 boom, and the TMS blast on 114 made that agency ornery and hungry ... at least Southlake/Westlake/Roanoke is still relatively permissive ...

Southlake? One of the worst.

[Viffermike]

Originally Posted by Real Dodger

Southlake? One of the worst.

Mmmm, not in my experience, as well as reputation and the experience of others I know. That very well may have changed since I rode/drove around there a ton, but I've not heard that from LEO friends of mine.

YMMV (Or, er, YSpeedsMV, LOL)

[eluded]

Chevy SS. Thought it would sneak Thru with its sleeper looks there it is at number four on the list

[ShocknAwe]

Thought the speeds would be higher tbh. Oddly disappointed in Texas. Go big or go home.