Speed Trap Exchange
Jurisdiction | Austin, Texas |
Speed Trap Location | 183 south in front of Rudy's BBQ |
Nearest Reference Point | n/a |
GPS Coordinates | n/a |
Time of Day | Late night |
Level of Enforcement | Moderate |
Type of Enforcement | Laser |
Date | 3/2002 |
Austin Police Dept. Crown Victoria sitting behind road sign with no lights on, and his arm just pointing out thw window with his gun, real sneaky, huh? I was trying to keep up with a friend and he picked up the Lasar Detection, and he was going about 50 mph in the right lane, and I passed him doing a shy 93mph in the left lane, well I didn't think I was going to get a ticket by APD, util I remembered they had arrested me the past summer in my Z-71 for racing!! Well look out and SLOW DOWN ITS A NEIGHBORHOOD | |
Comment (11/2002): Dear DPS employee: has it not occurred to you that the people who submit the reports you transcribe might have certain biases that factor into the causes they list on their accident reports? There have actually been studies in recent years that showed that accident investigators tend to cite speeding as a causative factor in accidents far more often than it actually is a causative factor? I'm sorry, but the DPS does not contribute to public safety, except on the occasions when they find the 18-wheelers loaded with illegal aliens who are baking in the hot Texas summer (and gee, thanks, can't thank you enough for looking out for these CRIMINALS who shouldn't be experiencing the hot Texas summer in the first place). The rest of the time they drive around issuing tickets on deserted stretches of roads to people who've exceeded some arbitrary and unreasonable speed limit in a town with traffic so light there's no one else to endanger. Half the time, those cited aren't even guilty -- the DPS uses moving radar to the exclusion of pretty much every other method of speed detection, and it's really not that hard to generate a high erroneous reading with the equipment they use. That said, I can't say I sympathize with the 93MPH guy, but thanks for the warning anyway. | |
Comment (11/2002): DPS worker, Fear the law? Since you are so knowledgeable, working for the DPS and all, it's probably a good idea that you warn everyone personally about the hordes of jack-booted thugs that waste tax payer money in rural areas threatening good citizens with speeding tickets instead of doing some real police work. I see them around in areas with like no population giving out tickets for just barely failing to come to a complete stop or in my case, failing to change my address on my driver's license when I had only moved a short while ago. So you can fear the law all you want, but I'll spend my time doing what I can to put other people in power so we can get rid of all the police corruption. I have a clean driving record, but I have been pulled over several times and have realized that most of the officers had been patronizing and had a superiority complex. I mean, when you can't find anything better to do than hanging around a country store, that's about time to pack up and head back to the city where the real crime is at. | |
Comment (11/2002): Fellow DPS employee-Your right. Most people would be shocked at what we see every day as civilian DPS employees. I'm not perfect myself. I have received tickets that I thought were unfair and some that I deserved. I had to grow up, slow down and learn to be responsible behind the wheel. No one has the right to do 93 in an automobile and risk other lives or their own. If you don't care about anyone else, at least try to imagine your parents getting that call in the middle of the night that is every parents worst nightmare. | |
Comment (11/2002): if that DPS employee has 1/2 as many typographical errors in her reports as she does in her posting, there's a problem. seriously though, the Puritanical attitude remarked about earlier is the same as the people who get in the left lane and feel it is their duty to slow people in the left lane down to their version of the correct speed limit. please, if speed offends you, get out of the way. don't endanger others who may have a very good reason to be going at a good clip (ie trying to get to a job interview when they've been unemployed for a long time, hospital, who knows). get off the damn cell phone and let the rest of us go about the business of driving. (and of course, i do not mean 95 in a 30 or flying through a school zone or weaving in and out of traffic). my question is, why is speeding SOOO dangerous, but everyone will, in the same breath, defend their "right" to talk on the phone and drive. did the vehicle become less lethal when you hit "SEND"? | |
Comment (5/2002): I've had my share of unfair speeding tickets (going 65 down a steep hill in a 60mph speed limit zone for example. What was I supposed to do? Ride the brake??) but RACING on PUBLIC roads and doing 93mph to keep up with a friend is outrageous. You are a potential murderer and you should have your license taken away. With 24 traffic fataliites in Austin so far this year (it's only May) it's clear that there are many people on Austin roads who are just like you - careless, impatient, show-offs with no regard for the value of life and no clue about how common traffic fatalities really are. Please don't race or try to keep up with friends on our public roads. Is showing off and competing with your friends worth dying for? Is it worth killing people and going to jail for? Please slow down. | |
Comment (6/2002): Most common traffic accidents and fatalities occur due to drinking/not paying attention/etc etc... speeding isn't as dangerous as the involuntary tax collectors would like us to believe. | |
Comment (7/2002): Ummm... speeding by yourself with 110% attention being paid to the road may not be as dangerous as the gov't would like us to believe. But RACING? Obviously, you are distracted from just driving because you are going to look at where your racing partner is. In that split second you have a great chance of causing an accident. And at a high rate of speed, you may have a blowout from debris that you couldn't avoid. At the posted speed, you'd have a good chance that you'd be alright. At 95 or 100 or more, you'd be very lucky to not suffer critical injuries or death. Racing is stupid and endangers your life, but more importantly, MY life. If you have a death wish, FINE. Kill yourself. Don't kill me. | |
Comment (7/2002): Over-speeding, raging, tailgating, aggressive lane-changing - are all ridiculous and is unsafe. Doing all these things because you have a fast car or you just think "you're so cool" is stupid and is NOT worth risking someone's life, including your own. It's VERY inconsiderate and careless. I live in Austin and experience all the arrogant, unkind, "I want to be first" drivers in this town. I also work for TxDPS in as a data entry operator so I alone enter 1000+ accident reports onto citizens driving records daily. I also enter speeding tickets onto Tx driver's records from all cities within Tx along with other tickets for various traffic violations. A good number of accidents in Tx are caused by not paying attention and by speeding. Some of these accidents have resulted in horrible deaths for innocent drivers including children and adults dying from severed limbs and literaly being ejected from the car. Many have suffered from severe and very gruesome tramas to their bodies. All that could be prevented by obeying the Law and not letting anger drive the car. Basic rule of thumb: Impatience can kill, patience can sustain. Common Sence: you will not be disciplined by the Law if you obey the Law. Doing 93 mph is not shy, it's TOO fast - this shows arrogance and it is reckless. Anyone who drives recklessly, especially those who race illegally and aggressively, deserves heavy penalty and discipline - there is NO POINT in being a speed demon!! "Speed Demons" make the roads just as unsafe as drunk drivers - they both show irresponcibility and can bring the same unfortunate results. Fear Law, obey it's commands and you will be saved - same as basic Christian principle: Fear God, obey His instructions and you will saved. Click It ot Ticket, be responcible and strive to make the roads safe. | |
Comment (9/2002): The previous comment is a typical example of the old American puritanism. Be obedient and nothing bad will happen to you. Let someone decide what is good for you because you are not smart enough to figure that for yourself. That how you end up with an average president. I admit that racing on public streets is bad and dangerous. Though I cannot agree with these ridiculous speed limits: 55 and 65 Mph when the new cars start feeling comfortable around 80 Mph. Unless you are driving a fine Buick. Anyway I believe there are two categories of drivers: 1) responsible and skilled and 2) the rest. The problem is how can you make distinction between them? You cannot. Therefore you set speed limits at which any 2-cent driver would be able to control their car. Abuse is the one that limits everybody's freedom. A responsible person does not abuse. You would not see a responsible driver speeding 90MPh on a crowded highway and you would see him do that on long highway stretch. On the other hand, someone that has no understanding of the consequences of high speeds will care less of the road conditions and will potentially create an accident. Those are the people you should be afraid off. I would personally chose a fast driving driver with no accidents in front of a driver that never drove faster than 70 Mph and has had their share of accidents. My point is: it's not the speed you should be afraid of, it is the driver. And believe me. Those cops dont waste their time clocking me because they want to make the streets safer. They need my money. | |
Comment (9/2002): Response to the DPS employee: Got to agree with you. 93 is really downright ridiculous. I sometimes think DPS gets a little carried away. I've known people to be ticketed for 52 or 53 in a 50 zone. Come on, that's not dangerous. But when you start going 70, 80, 90 in a 50--you bet--it's dangerous and stupid. I hope the DPS stop bothering with 5 over and get people like the 93 in a 50 and put them in Jail. | |
Comment (10/2002): I agree that the Police get too picky about how fast is too fast in certain areas. They do set up speed traps to help pay for their retirements and equipment. To pay for all of this they must "create" the income. I have seen over the years how cars are becoming more like tin cans and how certain people drive them. They drive them too fast for what protection is around them. I have seen collisions where the autos were not going very fast and the damage was extensive. Imagine what one looks like when they are going fast! Driving fast, cutting lanes and speeding through red lights all involve other people. YOU are not the only person on the streets and you should show what was once "common courtesy" to the other drivers. This attitude of "only me" or "me first" WILL get you and someone else killed! The world is full of people that speed and Will die early. Unfortunately, they will probably take an innocent person with them. You speed and you'll do the deed! | |
Comment (10/2002): It doesn't matter how good a driver you think you are,if you are going too fast and someone pulls out in front of you or trys to merge into traffic. You can not stop that vehicle any quicker unless you slow down. You may even lose control. It happens to the best drivers. The speeds are there for a reason, observe them and you'll have a much better chance at reaching a ripe old age. You should always slow down when coming into a town (whether their is a sign or not) or coming up to an intersection. People get impatient and they will pull out in front of you, and I don't care if you are a professional race car driver you can't stop the car unless you slow down. | |
Comment (2/2003): I can't say this more "LEFT LANE IS FOR PASSING ONLY!!!" If your not passing someone move over this help's traffic in so many ways | |
Comment (3/2003): I am amazed at the time and energy spent by people trying to rationalize breaking the law. Being able to ignore the laws we don't agree with is not a legal option, but it is an option...and if you chose to do so...then shut up, pay the fines, and stop whining. In general, I follow the speed limit, but the times I have been ticketed, I just paid my fine quietly and moved on with my life. Its called taking responsiblity for my actions. What a novel idea, huh? What a bunch of whiners. | |
Comment (4/2003): I see first hand the results of people who disregard traffic laws. These laws, no matter how petty you think they might be are there for one rason, your protection. Speeding, no seat belt, no helmet, I could go on for pages, there is a reason. As for you goinmg "just shy of 93", please pull your head out of the dark hole it is inserted into, I don't want to scrape what is left of your mangeled body up off the street when you crash at that speed. Belive me, the probability will die at that speed is in the 90's. Anything can happen, you hit a unseen nail or anything that blows a tire at that speed, you will meet your maker. Then I will have to live with the image of your mangeled and broken dead body in my mind with each accident I am dispatched to | |
Comment (6/2003): Just a note for the area... I live a couple blocks away and they are there several nights a week. What a lot of folks don't know is that despite being "in Austin" there are a lot of deer around. They usually stick to the frontage road area, coming across it late at night to eat the grass next to 183. Occasioanlly though they do end up on 183. Just thought y'all might like to know. | |
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Jurisdiction | Austin, Texas |
Speed Trap Location | North Lamar and Hwy 183 |
Nearest Reference Point | n/a |
GPS Coordinates | n/a |
Time of Day | Any time |
Level of Enforcement | Moderate |
Type of Enforcement | Radar |
Date | 3/2002 |
Motorcycle cop sits underneath the 183 bridge, if you coming north lamar and you getting ready to pass underneath bridge he will get you with his radar, so try to slow down the limit is 45 but changes to 35 before you get to the light. | |
Comment (11/2002): Dear DPS employee: has it not occurred to you that the people who submit the reports you transcribe might have certain biases that factor into the causes they list on their accident reports? There have actually been studies in recent years that showed that accident investigators tend to cite speeding as a causative factor in accidents far more often than it actually is a causative factor? I'm sorry, but the DPS does not contribute to public safety, except on the occasions when they find the 18-wheelers loaded with illegal aliens who are baking in the hot Texas summer (and gee, thanks, can't thank you enough for looking out for these CRIMINALS who shouldn't be experiencing the hot Texas summer in the first place). The rest of the time they drive around issuing tickets on deserted stretches of roads to people who've exceeded some arbitrary and unreasonable speed limit in a town with traffic so light there's no one else to endanger. Half the time, those cited aren't even guilty -- the DPS uses moving radar to the exclusion of pretty much every other method of speed detection, and it's really not that hard to generate a high erroneous reading with the equipment they use. That said, I can't say I sympathize with the 93MPH guy, but thanks for the warning anyway. | |
Comment (11/2002): DPS worker, Fear the law? Since you are so knowledgeable, working for the DPS and all, it's probably a good idea that you warn everyone personally about the hordes of jack-booted thugs that waste tax payer money in rural areas threatening good citizens with speeding tickets instead of doing some real police work. I see them around in areas with like no population giving out tickets for just barely failing to come to a complete stop or in my case, failing to change my address on my driver's license when I had only moved a short while ago. So you can fear the law all you want, but I'll spend my time doing what I can to put other people in power so we can get rid of all the police corruption. I have a clean driving record, but I have been pulled over several times and have realized that most of the officers had been patronizing and had a superiority complex. I mean, when you can't find anything better to do than hanging around a country store, that's about time to pack up and head back to the city where the real crime is at. | |
Comment (11/2002): Fellow DPS employee-Your right. Most people would be shocked at what we see every day as civilian DPS employees. I'm not perfect myself. I have received tickets that I thought were unfair and some that I deserved. I had to grow up, slow down and learn to be responsible behind the wheel. No one has the right to do 93 in an automobile and risk other lives or their own. If you don't care about anyone else, at least try to imagine your parents getting that call in the middle of the night that is every parents worst nightmare. | |
Comment (11/2002): if that DPS employee has 1/2 as many typographical errors in her reports as she does in her posting, there's a problem. seriously though, the Puritanical attitude remarked about earlier is the same as the people who get in the left lane and feel it is their duty to slow people in the left lane down to their version of the correct speed limit. please, if speed offends you, get out of the way. don't endanger others who may have a very good reason to be going at a good clip (ie trying to get to a job interview when they've been unemployed for a long time, hospital, who knows). get off the damn cell phone and let the rest of us go about the business of driving. (and of course, i do not mean 95 in a 30 or flying through a school zone or weaving in and out of traffic). my question is, why is speeding SOOO dangerous, but everyone will, in the same breath, defend their "right" to talk on the phone and drive. did the vehicle become less lethal when you hit "SEND"? | |
Comment (5/2002): I've had my share of unfair speeding tickets (going 65 down a steep hill in a 60mph speed limit zone for example. What was I supposed to do? Ride the brake??) but RACING on PUBLIC roads and doing 93mph to keep up with a friend is outrageous. You are a potential murderer and you should have your license taken away. With 24 traffic fataliites in Austin so far this year (it's only May) it's clear that there are many people on Austin roads who are just like you - careless, impatient, show-offs with no regard for the value of life and no clue about how common traffic fatalities really are. Please don't race or try to keep up with friends on our public roads. Is showing off and competing with your friends worth dying for? Is it worth killing people and going to jail for? Please slow down. | |
Comment (6/2002): Most common traffic accidents and fatalities occur due to drinking/not paying attention/etc etc... speeding isn't as dangerous as the involuntary tax collectors would like us to believe. | |
Comment (7/2002): Ummm... speeding by yourself with 110% attention being paid to the road may not be as dangerous as the gov't would like us to believe. But RACING? Obviously, you are distracted from just driving because you are going to look at where your racing partner is. In that split second you have a great chance of causing an accident. And at a high rate of speed, you may have a blowout from debris that you couldn't avoid. At the posted speed, you'd have a good chance that you'd be alright. At 95 or 100 or more, you'd be very lucky to not suffer critical injuries or death. Racing is stupid and endangers your life, but more importantly, MY life. If you have a death wish, FINE. Kill yourself. Don't kill me. | |
Comment (7/2002): Over-speeding, raging, tailgating, aggressive lane-changing - are all ridiculous and is unsafe. Doing all these things because you have a fast car or you just think "you're so cool" is stupid and is NOT worth risking someone's life, including your own. It's VERY inconsiderate and careless. I live in Austin and experience all the arrogant, unkind, "I want to be first" drivers in this town. I also work for TxDPS in as a data entry operator so I alone enter 1000+ accident reports onto citizens driving records daily. I also enter speeding tickets onto Tx driver's records from all cities within Tx along with other tickets for various traffic violations. A good number of accidents in Tx are caused by not paying attention and by speeding. Some of these accidents have resulted in horrible deaths for innocent drivers including children and adults dying from severed limbs and literaly being ejected from the car. Many have suffered from severe and very gruesome tramas to their bodies. All that could be prevented by obeying the Law and not letting anger drive the car. Basic rule of thumb: Impatience can kill, patience can sustain. Common Sence: you will not be disciplined by the Law if you obey the Law. Doing 93 mph is not shy, it's TOO fast - this shows arrogance and it is reckless. Anyone who drives recklessly, especially those who race illegally and aggressively, deserves heavy penalty and discipline - there is NO POINT in being a speed demon!! "Speed Demons" make the roads just as unsafe as drunk drivers - they both show irresponcibility and can bring the same unfortunate results. Fear Law, obey it's commands and you will be saved - same as basic Christian principle: Fear God, obey His instructions and you will saved. Click It ot Ticket, be responcible and strive to make the roads safe. | |
Comment (9/2002): The previous comment is a typical example of the old American puritanism. Be obedient and nothing bad will happen to you. Let someone decide what is good for you because you are not smart enough to figure that for yourself. That how you end up with an average president. I admit that racing on public streets is bad and dangerous. Though I cannot agree with these ridiculous speed limits: 55 and 65 Mph when the new cars start feeling comfortable around 80 Mph. Unless you are driving a fine Buick. Anyway I believe there are two categories of drivers: 1) responsible and skilled and 2) the rest. The problem is how can you make distinction between them? You cannot. Therefore you set speed limits at which any 2-cent driver would be able to control their car. Abuse is the one that limits everybody's freedom. A responsible person does not abuse. You would not see a responsible driver speeding 90MPh on a crowded highway and you would see him do that on long highway stretch. On the other hand, someone that has no understanding of the consequences of high speeds will care less of the road conditions and will potentially create an accident. Those are the people you should be afraid off. I would personally chose a fast driving driver with no accidents in front of a driver that never drove faster than 70 Mph and has had their share of accidents. My point is: it's not the speed you should be afraid of, it is the driver. And believe me. Those cops dont waste their time clocking me because they want to make the streets safer. They need my money. | |
Comment (9/2002): Response to the DPS employee: Got to agree with you. 93 is really downright ridiculous. I sometimes think DPS gets a little carried away. I've known people to be ticketed for 52 or 53 in a 50 zone. Come on, that's not dangerous. But when you start going 70, 80, 90 in a 50--you bet--it's dangerous and stupid. I hope the DPS stop bothering with 5 over and get people like the 93 in a 50 and put them in Jail. | |
Comment (10/2002): I agree that the Police get too picky about how fast is too fast in certain areas. They do set up speed traps to help pay for their retirements and equipment. To pay for all of this they must "create" the income. I have seen over the years how cars are becoming more like tin cans and how certain people drive them. They drive them too fast for what protection is around them. I have seen collisions where the autos were not going very fast and the damage was extensive. Imagine what one looks like when they are going fast! Driving fast, cutting lanes and speeding through red lights all involve other people. YOU are not the only person on the streets and you should show what was once "common courtesy" to the other drivers. This attitude of "only me" or "me first" WILL get you and someone else killed! The world is full of people that speed and Will die early. Unfortunately, they will probably take an innocent person with them. You speed and you'll do the deed! | |
Comment (10/2002): It doesn't matter how good a driver you think you are,if you are going too fast and someone pulls out in front of you or trys to merge into traffic. You can not stop that vehicle any quicker unless you slow down. You may even lose control. It happens to the best drivers. The speeds are there for a reason, observe them and you'll have a much better chance at reaching a ripe old age. You should always slow down when coming into a town (whether their is a sign or not) or coming up to an intersection. People get impatient and they will pull out in front of you, and I don't care if you are a professional race car driver you can't stop the car unless you slow down. | |
Comment (2/2003): I can't say this more "LEFT LANE IS FOR PASSING ONLY!!!" If your not passing someone move over this help's traffic in so many ways | |
Comment (3/2003): I am amazed at the time and energy spent by people trying to rationalize breaking the law. Being able to ignore the laws we don't agree with is not a legal option, but it is an option...and if you chose to do so...then shut up, pay the fines, and stop whining. In general, I follow the speed limit, but the times I have been ticketed, I just paid my fine quietly and moved on with my life. Its called taking responsiblity for my actions. What a novel idea, huh? What a bunch of whiners. | |
Comment (4/2003): I see first hand the results of people who disregard traffic laws. These laws, no matter how petty you think they might be are there for one rason, your protection. Speeding, no seat belt, no helmet, I could go on for pages, there is a reason. As for you goinmg "just shy of 93", please pull your head out of the dark hole it is inserted into, I don't want to scrape what is left of your mangeled body up off the street when you crash at that speed. Belive me, the probability will die at that speed is in the 90's. Anything can happen, you hit a unseen nail or anything that blows a tire at that speed, you will meet your maker. Then I will have to live with the image of your mangeled and broken dead body in my mind with each accident I am dispatched to | |
Comment (6/2003): Just a note for the area... I live a couple blocks away and they are there several nights a week. What a lot of folks don't know is that despite being "in Austin" there are a lot of deer around. They usually stick to the frontage road area, coming across it late at night to eat the grass next to 183. Occasioanlly though they do end up on 183. Just thought y'all might like to know. | |
Comment (11/2002): Dear DPS employee: has it not occurred to you that the people who submit the reports you transcribe might have certain biases that factor into the causes they list on their accident reports? There have actually been studies in recent years that showed that accident investigators tend to cite speeding as a causative factor in accidents far more often than it actually is a causative factor? I'm sorry, but the DPS does not contribute to public safety, except on the occasions when they find the 18-wheelers loaded with illegal aliens who are baking in the hot Texas summer (and gee, thanks, can't thank you enough for looking out for these CRIMINALS who shouldn't be experiencing the hot Texas summer in the first place). The rest of the time they drive around issuing tickets on deserted stretches of roads to people who've exceeded some arbitrary and unreasonable speed limit in a town with traffic so light there's no one else to endanger. Half the time, those cited aren't even guilty -- the DPS uses moving radar to the exclusion of pretty much every other method of speed detection, and it's really not that hard to generate a high erroneous reading with the equipment they use. That said, I can't say I sympathize with the 93MPH guy, but thanks for the warning anyway. | |
Comment (11/2002): DPS worker, Fear the law? Since you are so knowledgeable, working for the DPS and all, it's probably a good idea that you warn everyone personally about the hordes of jack-booted thugs that waste tax payer money in rural areas threatening good citizens with speeding tickets instead of doing some real police work. I see them around in areas with like no population giving out tickets for just barely failing to come to a complete stop or in my case, failing to change my address on my driver's license when I had only moved a short while ago. So you can fear the law all you want, but I'll spend my time doing what I can to put other people in power so we can get rid of all the police corruption. I have a clean driving record, but I have been pulled over several times and have realized that most of the officers had been patronizing and had a superiority complex. I mean, when you can't find anything better to do than hanging around a country store, that's about time to pack up and head back to the city where the real crime is at. | |
Comment (11/2002): Fellow DPS employee-Your right. Most people would be shocked at what we see every day as civilian DPS employees. I'm not perfect myself. I have received tickets that I thought were unfair and some that I deserved. I had to grow up, slow down and learn to be responsible behind the wheel. No one has the right to do 93 in an automobile and risk other lives or their own. If you don't care about anyone else, at least try to imagine your parents getting that call in the middle of the night that is every parents worst nightmare. | |
Comment (11/2002): if that DPS employee has 1/2 as many typographical errors in her reports as she does in her posting, there's a problem. seriously though, the Puritanical attitude remarked about earlier is the same as the people who get in the left lane and feel it is their duty to slow people in the left lane down to their version of the correct speed limit. please, if speed offends you, get out of the way. don't endanger others who may have a very good reason to be going at a good clip (ie trying to get to a job interview when they've been unemployed for a long time, hospital, who knows). get off the damn cell phone and let the rest of us go about the business of driving. (and of course, i do not mean 95 in a 30 or flying through a school zone or weaving in and out of traffic). my question is, why is speeding SOOO dangerous, but everyone will, in the same breath, defend their "right" to talk on the phone and drive. did the vehicle become less lethal when you hit "SEND"? | |
Comment (5/2002): I've had my share of unfair speeding tickets (going 65 down a steep hill in a 60mph speed limit zone for example. What was I supposed to do? Ride the brake??) but RACING on PUBLIC roads and doing 93mph to keep up with a friend is outrageous. You are a potential murderer and you should have your license taken away. With 24 traffic fataliites in Austin so far this year (it's only May) it's clear that there are many people on Austin roads who are just like you - careless, impatient, show-offs with no regard for the value of life and no clue about how common traffic fatalities really are. Please don't race or try to keep up with friends on our public roads. Is showing off and competing with your friends worth dying for? Is it worth killing people and going to jail for? Please slow down. | |
Comment (6/2002): Most common traffic accidents and fatalities occur due to drinking/not paying attention/etc etc... speeding isn't as dangerous as the involuntary tax collectors would like us to believe. | |
Comment (7/2002): Ummm... speeding by yourself with 110% attention being paid to the road may not be as dangerous as the gov't would like us to believe. But RACING? Obviously, you are distracted from just driving because you are going to look at where your racing partner is. In that split second you have a great chance of causing an accident. And at a high rate of speed, you may have a blowout from debris that you couldn't avoid. At the posted speed, you'd have a good chance that you'd be alright. At 95 or 100 or more, you'd be very lucky to not suffer critical injuries or death. Racing is stupid and endangers your life, but more importantly, MY life. If you have a death wish, FINE. Kill yourself. Don't kill me. | |
Comment (7/2002): Over-speeding, raging, tailgating, aggressive lane-changing - are all ridiculous and is unsafe. Doing all these things because you have a fast car or you just think "you're so cool" is stupid and is NOT worth risking someone's life, including your own. It's VERY inconsiderate and careless. I live in Austin and experience all the arrogant, unkind, "I want to be first" drivers in this town. I also work for TxDPS in as a data entry operator so I alone enter 1000+ accident reports onto citizens driving records daily. I also enter speeding tickets onto Tx driver's records from all cities within Tx along with other tickets for various traffic violations. A good number of accidents in Tx are caused by not paying attention and by speeding. Some of these accidents have resulted in horrible deaths for innocent drivers including children and adults dying from severed limbs and literaly being ejected from the car. Many have suffered from severe and very gruesome tramas to their bodies. All that could be prevented by obeying the Law and not letting anger drive the car. Basic rule of thumb: Impatience can kill, patience can sustain. Common Sence: you will not be disciplined by the Law if you obey the Law. Doing 93 mph is not shy, it's TOO fast - this shows arrogance and it is reckless. Anyone who drives recklessly, especially those who race illegally and aggressively, deserves heavy penalty and discipline - there is NO POINT in being a speed demon!! "Speed Demons" make the roads just as unsafe as drunk drivers - they both show irresponcibility and can bring the same unfortunate results. Fear Law, obey it's commands and you will be saved - same as basic Christian principle: Fear God, obey His instructions and you will saved. Click It ot Ticket, be responcible and strive to make the roads safe. | |
Comment (9/2002): The previous comment is a typical example of the old American puritanism. Be obedient and nothing bad will happen to you. Let someone decide what is good for you because you are not smart enough to figure that for yourself. That how you end up with an average president. I admit that racing on public streets is bad and dangerous. Though I cannot agree with these ridiculous speed limits: 55 and 65 Mph when the new cars start feeling comfortable around 80 Mph. Unless you are driving a fine Buick. Anyway I believe there are two categories of drivers: 1) responsible and skilled and 2) the rest. The problem is how can you make distinction between them? You cannot. Therefore you set speed limits at which any 2-cent driver would be able to control their car. Abuse is the one that limits everybody's freedom. A responsible person does not abuse. You would not see a responsible driver speeding 90MPh on a crowded highway and you would see him do that on long highway stretch. On the other hand, someone that has no understanding of the consequences of high speeds will care less of the road conditions and will potentially create an accident. Those are the people you should be afraid off. I would personally chose a fast driving driver with no accidents in front of a driver that never drove faster than 70 Mph and has had their share of accidents. My point is: it's not the speed you should be afraid of, it is the driver. And believe me. Those cops dont waste their time clocking me because they want to make the streets safer. They need my money. | |
Comment (9/2002): Response to the DPS employee: Got to agree with you. 93 is really downright ridiculous. I sometimes think DPS gets a little carried away. I've known people to be ticketed for 52 or 53 in a 50 zone. Come on, that's not dangerous. But when you start going 70, 80, 90 in a 50--you bet--it's dangerous and stupid. I hope the DPS stop bothering with 5 over and get people like the 93 in a 50 and put them in Jail. | |
Comment (10/2002): I agree that the Police get too picky about how fast is too fast in certain areas. They do set up speed traps to help pay for their retirements and equipment. To pay for all of this they must "create" the income. I have seen over the years how cars are becoming more like tin cans and how certain people drive them. They drive them too fast for what protection is around them. I have seen collisions where the autos were not going very fast and the damage was extensive. Imagine what one looks like when they are going fast! Driving fast, cutting lanes and speeding through red lights all involve other people. YOU are not the only person on the streets and you should show what was once "common courtesy" to the other drivers. This attitude of "only me" or "me first" WILL get you and someone else killed! The world is full of people that speed and Will die early. Unfortunately, they will probably take an innocent person with them. You speed and you'll do the deed! | |
Comment (10/2002): It doesn't matter how good a driver you think you are,if you are going too fast and someone pulls out in front of you or trys to merge into traffic. You can not stop that vehicle any quicker unless you slow down. You may even lose control. It happens to the best drivers. The speeds are there for a reason, observe them and you'll have a much better chance at reaching a ripe old age. You should always slow down when coming into a town (whether their is a sign or not) or coming up to an intersection. People get impatient and they will pull out in front of you, and I don't care if you are a professional race car driver you can't stop the car unless you slow down. | |
Comment (2/2003): I can't say this more "LEFT LANE IS FOR PASSING ONLY!!!" If your not passing someone move over this help's traffic in so many ways | |
Comment (3/2003): I am amazed at the time and energy spent by people trying to rationalize breaking the law. Being able to ignore the laws we don't agree with is not a legal option, but it is an option...and if you chose to do so...then shut up, pay the fines, and stop whining. In general, I follow the speed limit, but the times I have been ticketed, I just paid my fine quietly and moved on with my life. Its called taking responsiblity for my actions. What a novel idea, huh? What a bunch of whiners. | |
Comment (4/2003): I see first hand the results of people who disregard traffic laws. These laws, no matter how petty you think they might be are there for one rason, your protection. Speeding, no seat belt, no helmet, I could go on for pages, there is a reason. As for you goinmg "just shy of 93", please pull your head out of the dark hole it is inserted into, I don't want to scrape what is left of your mangeled body up off the street when you crash at that speed. Belive me, the probability will die at that speed is in the 90's. Anything can happen, you hit a unseen nail or anything that blows a tire at that speed, you will meet your maker. Then I will have to live with the image of your mangeled and broken dead body in my mind with each accident I am dispatched to | |
Comment (6/2003): Just a note for the area... I live a couple blocks away and they are there several nights a week. What a lot of folks don't know is that despite being "in Austin" there are a lot of deer around. They usually stick to the frontage road area, coming across it late at night to eat the grass next to 183. Occasioanlly though they do end up on 183. Just thought y'all might like to know. | |
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Jurisdiction | Austin, Texas |
Speed Trap Location | 38th Street between Red River & Duval |
Nearest Reference Point | n/a |
GPS Coordinates | n/a |
Time of Day | Late night |
Level of Enforcement | Moderate |
Type of Enforcement | Unknown |
Date | 3/2002 |
Usually in car, catching people on both ends east/west bound parked across the street from the Hancock Golf course on the side streets. Very sneeky, lots of activity at night this last month. | |
Comment (11/2002): Dear DPS employee: has it not occurred to you that the people who submit the reports you transcribe might have certain biases that factor into the causes they list on their accident reports? There have actually been studies in recent years that showed that accident investigators tend to cite speeding as a causative factor in accidents far more often than it actually is a causative factor? I'm sorry, but the DPS does not contribute to public safety, except on the occasions when they find the 18-wheelers loaded with illegal aliens who are baking in the hot Texas summer (and gee, thanks, can't thank you enough for looking out for these CRIMINALS who shouldn't be experiencing the hot Texas summer in the first place). The rest of the time they drive around issuing tickets on deserted stretches of roads to people who've exceeded some arbitrary and unreasonable speed limit in a town with traffic so light there's no one else to endanger. Half the time, those cited aren't even guilty -- the DPS uses moving radar to the exclusion of pretty much every other method of speed detection, and it's really not that hard to generate a high erroneous reading with the equipment they use. That said, I can't say I sympathize with the 93MPH guy, but thanks for the warning anyway. | |
Comment (11/2002): DPS worker, Fear the law? Since you are so knowledgeable, working for the DPS and all, it's probably a good idea that you warn everyone personally about the hordes of jack-booted thugs that waste tax payer money in rural areas threatening good citizens with speeding tickets instead of doing some real police work. I see them around in areas with like no population giving out tickets for just barely failing to come to a complete stop or in my case, failing to change my address on my driver's license when I had only moved a short while ago. So you can fear the law all you want, but I'll spend my time doing what I can to put other people in power so we can get rid of all the police corruption. I have a clean driving record, but I have been pulled over several times and have realized that most of the officers had been patronizing and had a superiority complex. I mean, when you can't find anything better to do than hanging around a country store, that's about time to pack up and head back to the city where the real crime is at. | |
Comment (11/2002): Fellow DPS employee-Your right. Most people would be shocked at what we see every day as civilian DPS employees. I'm not perfect myself. I have received tickets that I thought were unfair and some that I deserved. I had to grow up, slow down and learn to be responsible behind the wheel. No one has the right to do 93 in an automobile and risk other lives or their own. If you don't care about anyone else, at least try to imagine your parents getting that call in the middle of the night that is every parents worst nightmare. | |
Comment (11/2002): if that DPS employee has 1/2 as many typographical errors in her reports as she does in her posting, there's a problem. seriously though, the Puritanical attitude remarked about earlier is the same as the people who get in the left lane and feel it is their duty to slow people in the left lane down to their version of the correct speed limit. please, if speed offends you, get out of the way. don't endanger others who may have a very good reason to be going at a good clip (ie trying to get to a job interview when they've been unemployed for a long time, hospital, who knows). get off the damn cell phone and let the rest of us go about the business of driving. (and of course, i do not mean 95 in a 30 or flying through a school zone or weaving in and out of traffic). my question is, why is speeding SOOO dangerous, but everyone will, in the same breath, defend their "right" to talk on the phone and drive. did the vehicle become less lethal when you hit "SEND"? | |
Comment (5/2002): I've had my share of unfair speeding tickets (going 65 down a steep hill in a 60mph speed limit zone for example. What was I supposed to do? Ride the brake??) but RACING on PUBLIC roads and doing 93mph to keep up with a friend is outrageous. You are a potential murderer and you should have your license taken away. With 24 traffic fataliites in Austin so far this year (it's only May) it's clear that there are many people on Austin roads who are just like you - careless, impatient, show-offs with no regard for the value of life and no clue about how common traffic fatalities really are. Please don't race or try to keep up with friends on our public roads. Is showing off and competing with your friends worth dying for? Is it worth killing people and going to jail for? Please slow down. | |
Comment (6/2002): Most common traffic accidents and fatalities occur due to drinking/not paying attention/etc etc... speeding isn't as dangerous as the involuntary tax collectors would like us to believe. | |
Comment (7/2002): Ummm... speeding by yourself with 110% attention being paid to the road may not be as dangerous as the gov't would like us to believe. But RACING? Obviously, you are distracted from just driving because you are going to look at where your racing partner is. In that split second you have a great chance of causing an accident. And at a high rate of speed, you may have a blowout from debris that you couldn't avoid. At the posted speed, you'd have a good chance that you'd be alright. At 95 or 100 or more, you'd be very lucky to not suffer critical injuries or death. Racing is stupid and endangers your life, but more importantly, MY life. If you have a death wish, FINE. Kill yourself. Don't kill me. | |
Comment (7/2002): Over-speeding, raging, tailgating, aggressive lane-changing - are all ridiculous and is unsafe. Doing all these things because you have a fast car or you just think "you're so cool" is stupid and is NOT worth risking someone's life, including your own. It's VERY inconsiderate and careless. I live in Austin and experience all the arrogant, unkind, "I want to be first" drivers in this town. I also work for TxDPS in as a data entry operator so I alone enter 1000+ accident reports onto citizens driving records daily. I also enter speeding tickets onto Tx driver's records from all cities within Tx along with other tickets for various traffic violations. A good number of accidents in Tx are caused by not paying attention and by speeding. Some of these accidents have resulted in horrible deaths for innocent drivers including children and adults dying from severed limbs and literaly being ejected from the car. Many have suffered from severe and very gruesome tramas to their bodies. All that could be prevented by obeying the Law and not letting anger drive the car. Basic rule of thumb: Impatience can kill, patience can sustain. Common Sence: you will not be disciplined by the Law if you obey the Law. Doing 93 mph is not shy, it's TOO fast - this shows arrogance and it is reckless. Anyone who drives recklessly, especially those who race illegally and aggressively, deserves heavy penalty and discipline - there is NO POINT in being a speed demon!! "Speed Demons" make the roads just as unsafe as drunk drivers - they both show irresponcibility and can bring the same unfortunate results. Fear Law, obey it's commands and you will be saved - same as basic Christian principle: Fear God, obey His instructions and you will saved. Click It ot Ticket, be responcible and strive to make the roads safe. | |
Comment (9/2002): The previous comment is a typical example of the old American puritanism. Be obedient and nothing bad will happen to you. Let someone decide what is good for you because you are not smart enough to figure that for yourself. That how you end up with an average president. I admit that racing on public streets is bad and dangerous. Though I cannot agree with these ridiculous speed limits: 55 and 65 Mph when the new cars start feeling comfortable around 80 Mph. Unless you are driving a fine Buick. Anyway I believe there are two categories of drivers: 1) responsible and skilled and 2) the rest. The problem is how can you make distinction between them? You cannot. Therefore you set speed limits at which any 2-cent driver would be able to control their car. Abuse is the one that limits everybody's freedom. A responsible person does not abuse. You would not see a responsible driver speeding 90MPh on a crowded highway and you would see him do that on long highway stretch. On the other hand, someone that has no understanding of the consequences of high speeds will care less of the road conditions and will potentially create an accident. Those are the people you should be afraid off. I would personally chose a fast driving driver with no accidents in front of a driver that never drove faster than 70 Mph and has had their share of accidents. My point is: it's not the speed you should be afraid of, it is the driver. And believe me. Those cops dont waste their time clocking me because they want to make the streets safer. They need my money. | |
Comment (9/2002): Response to the DPS employee: Got to agree with you. 93 is really downright ridiculous. I sometimes think DPS gets a little carried away. I've known people to be ticketed for 52 or 53 in a 50 zone. Come on, that's not dangerous. But when you start going 70, 80, 90 in a 50--you bet--it's dangerous and stupid. I hope the DPS stop bothering with 5 over and get people like the 93 in a 50 and put them in Jail. | |
Comment (10/2002): I agree that the Police get too picky about how fast is too fast in certain areas. They do set up speed traps to help pay for their retirements and equipment. To pay for all of this they must "create" the income. I have seen over the years how cars are becoming more like tin cans and how certain people drive them. They drive them too fast for what protection is around them. I have seen collisions where the autos were not going very fast and the damage was extensive. Imagine what one looks like when they are going fast! Driving fast, cutting lanes and speeding through red lights all involve other people. YOU are not the only person on the streets and you should show what was once "common courtesy" to the other drivers. This attitude of "only me" or "me first" WILL get you and someone else killed! The world is full of people that speed and Will die early. Unfortunately, they will probably take an innocent person with them. You speed and you'll do the deed! | |
Comment (10/2002): It doesn't matter how good a driver you think you are,if you are going too fast and someone pulls out in front of you or trys to merge into traffic. You can not stop that vehicle any quicker unless you slow down. You may even lose control. It happens to the best drivers. The speeds are there for a reason, observe them and you'll have a much better chance at reaching a ripe old age. You should always slow down when coming into a town (whether their is a sign or not) or coming up to an intersection. People get impatient and they will pull out in front of you, and I don't care if you are a professional race car driver you can't stop the car unless you slow down. | |
Comment (2/2003): I can't say this more "LEFT LANE IS FOR PASSING ONLY!!!" If your not passing someone move over this help's traffic in so many ways | |
Comment (3/2003): I am amazed at the time and energy spent by people trying to rationalize breaking the law. Being able to ignore the laws we don't agree with is not a legal option, but it is an option...and if you chose to do so...then shut up, pay the fines, and stop whining. In general, I follow the speed limit, but the times I have been ticketed, I just paid my fine quietly and moved on with my life. Its called taking responsiblity for my actions. What a novel idea, huh? What a bunch of whiners. | |
Comment (4/2003): I see first hand the results of people who disregard traffic laws. These laws, no matter how petty you think they might be are there for one rason, your protection. Speeding, no seat belt, no helmet, I could go on for pages, there is a reason. As for you goinmg "just shy of 93", please pull your head out of the dark hole it is inserted into, I don't want to scrape what is left of your mangeled body up off the street when you crash at that speed. Belive me, the probability will die at that speed is in the 90's. Anything can happen, you hit a unseen nail or anything that blows a tire at that speed, you will meet your maker. Then I will have to live with the image of your mangeled and broken dead body in my mind with each accident I am dispatched to | |
Comment (6/2003): Just a note for the area... I live a couple blocks away and they are there several nights a week. What a lot of folks don't know is that despite being "in Austin" there are a lot of deer around. They usually stick to the frontage road area, coming across it late at night to eat the grass next to 183. Occasioanlly though they do end up on 183. Just thought y'all might like to know. | |
Comment (11/2002): Dear DPS employee: has it not occurred to you that the people who submit the reports you transcribe might have certain biases that factor into the causes they list on their accident reports? There have actually been studies in recent years that showed that accident investigators tend to cite speeding as a causative factor in accidents far more often than it actually is a causative factor? I'm sorry, but the DPS does not contribute to public safety, except on the occasions when they find the 18-wheelers loaded with illegal aliens who are baking in the hot Texas summer (and gee, thanks, can't thank you enough for looking out for these CRIMINALS who shouldn't be experiencing the hot Texas summer in the first place). The rest of the time they drive around issuing tickets on deserted stretches of roads to people who've exceeded some arbitrary and unreasonable speed limit in a town with traffic so light there's no one else to endanger. Half the time, those cited aren't even guilty -- the DPS uses moving radar to the exclusion of pretty much every other method of speed detection, and it's really not that hard to generate a high erroneous reading with the equipment they use. That said, I can't say I sympathize with the 93MPH guy, but thanks for the warning anyway. | |
Comment (11/2002): DPS worker, Fear the law? Since you are so knowledgeable, working for the DPS and all, it's probably a good idea that you warn everyone personally about the hordes of jack-booted thugs that waste tax payer money in rural areas threatening good citizens with speeding tickets instead of doing some real police work. I see them around in areas with like no population giving out tickets for just barely failing to come to a complete stop or in my case, failing to change my address on my driver's license when I had only moved a short while ago. So you can fear the law all you want, but I'll spend my time doing what I can to put other people in power so we can get rid of all the police corruption. I have a clean driving record, but I have been pulled over several times and have realized that most of the officers had been patronizing and had a superiority complex. I mean, when you can't find anything better to do than hanging around a country store, that's about time to pack up and head back to the city where the real crime is at. | |
Comment (11/2002): Fellow DPS employee-Your right. Most people would be shocked at what we see every day as civilian DPS employees. I'm not perfect myself. I have received tickets that I thought were unfair and some that I deserved. I had to grow up, slow down and learn to be responsible behind the wheel. No one has the right to do 93 in an automobile and risk other lives or their own. If you don't care about anyone else, at least try to imagine your parents getting that call in the middle of the night that is every parents worst nightmare. | |
Comment (11/2002): if that DPS employee has 1/2 as many typographical errors in her reports as she does in her posting, there's a problem. seriously though, the Puritanical attitude remarked about earlier is the same as the people who get in the left lane and feel it is their duty to slow people in the left lane down to their version of the correct speed limit. please, if speed offends you, get out of the way. don't endanger others who may have a very good reason to be going at a good clip (ie trying to get to a job interview when they've been unemployed for a long time, hospital, who knows). get off the damn cell phone and let the rest of us go about the business of driving. (and of course, i do not mean 95 in a 30 or flying through a school zone or weaving in and out of traffic). my question is, why is speeding SOOO dangerous, but everyone will, in the same breath, defend their "right" to talk on the phone and drive. did the vehicle become less lethal when you hit "SEND"? | |
Comment (5/2002): I've had my share of unfair speeding tickets (going 65 down a steep hill in a 60mph speed limit zone for example. What was I supposed to do? Ride the brake??) but RACING on PUBLIC roads and doing 93mph to keep up with a friend is outrageous. You are a potential murderer and you should have your license taken away. With 24 traffic fataliites in Austin so far this year (it's only May) it's clear that there are many people on Austin roads who are just like you - careless, impatient, show-offs with no regard for the value of life and no clue about how common traffic fatalities really are. Please don't race or try to keep up with friends on our public roads. Is showing off and competing with your friends worth dying for? Is it worth killing people and going to jail for? Please slow down. | |
Comment (6/2002): Most common traffic accidents and fatalities occur due to drinking/not paying attention/etc etc... speeding isn't as dangerous as the involuntary tax collectors would like us to believe. | |
Comment (7/2002): Ummm... speeding by yourself with 110% attention being paid to the road may not be as dangerous as the gov't would like us to believe. But RACING? Obviously, you are distracted from just driving because you are going to look at where your racing partner is. In that split second you have a great chance of causing an accident. And at a high rate of speed, you may have a blowout from debris that you couldn't avoid. At the posted speed, you'd have a good chance that you'd be alright. At 95 or 100 or more, you'd be very lucky to not suffer critical injuries or death. Racing is stupid and endangers your life, but more importantly, MY life. If you have a death wish, FINE. Kill yourself. Don't kill me. | |
Comment (7/2002): Over-speeding, raging, tailgating, aggressive lane-changing - are all ridiculous and is unsafe. Doing all these things because you have a fast car or you just think "you're so cool" is stupid and is NOT worth risking someone's life, including your own. It's VERY inconsiderate and careless. I live in Austin and experience all the arrogant, unkind, "I want to be first" drivers in this town. I also work for TxDPS in as a data entry operator so I alone enter 1000+ accident reports onto citizens driving records daily. I also enter speeding tickets onto Tx driver's records from all cities within Tx along with other tickets for various traffic violations. A good number of accidents in Tx are caused by not paying attention and by speeding. Some of these accidents have resulted in horrible deaths for innocent drivers including children and adults dying from severed limbs and literaly being ejected from the car. Many have suffered from severe and very gruesome tramas to their bodies. All that could be prevented by obeying the Law and not letting anger drive the car. Basic rule of thumb: Impatience can kill, patience can sustain. Common Sence: you will not be disciplined by the Law if you obey the Law. Doing 93 mph is not shy, it's TOO fast - this shows arrogance and it is reckless. Anyone who drives recklessly, especially those who race illegally and aggressively, deserves heavy penalty and discipline - there is NO POINT in being a speed demon!! "Speed Demons" make the roads just as unsafe as drunk drivers - they both show irresponcibility and can bring the same unfortunate results. Fear Law, obey it's commands and you will be saved - same as basic Christian principle: Fear God, obey His instructions and you will saved. Click It ot Ticket, be responcible and strive to make the roads safe. | |
Comment (9/2002): The previous comment is a typical example of the old American puritanism. Be obedient and nothing bad will happen to you. Let someone decide what is good for you because you are not smart enough to figure that for yourself. That how you end up with an average president. I admit that racing on public streets is bad and dangerous. Though I cannot agree with these ridiculous speed limits: 55 and 65 Mph when the new cars start feeling comfortable around 80 Mph. Unless you are driving a fine Buick. Anyway I believe there are two categories of drivers: 1) responsible and skilled and 2) the rest. The problem is how can you make distinction between them? You cannot. Therefore you set speed limits at which any 2-cent driver would be able to control their car. Abuse is the one that limits everybody's freedom. A responsible person does not abuse. You would not see a responsible driver speeding 90MPh on a crowded highway and you would see him do that on long highway stretch. On the other hand, someone that has no understanding of the consequences of high speeds will care less of the road conditions and will potentially create an accident. Those are the people you should be afraid off. I would personally chose a fast driving driver with no accidents in front of a driver that never drove faster than 70 Mph and has had their share of accidents. My point is: it's not the speed you should be afraid of, it is the driver. And believe me. Those cops dont waste their time clocking me because they want to make the streets safer. They need my money. | |
Comment (9/2002): Response to the DPS employee: Got to agree with you. 93 is really downright ridiculous. I sometimes think DPS gets a little carried away. I've known people to be ticketed for 52 or 53 in a 50 zone. Come on, that's not dangerous. But when you start going 70, 80, 90 in a 50--you bet--it's dangerous and stupid. I hope the DPS stop bothering with 5 over and get people like the 93 in a 50 and put them in Jail. | |
Comment (10/2002): I agree that the Police get too picky about how fast is too fast in certain areas. They do set up speed traps to help pay for their retirements and equipment. To pay for all of this they must "create" the income. I have seen over the years how cars are becoming more like tin cans and how certain people drive them. They drive them too fast for what protection is around them. I have seen collisions where the autos were not going very fast and the damage was extensive. Imagine what one looks like when they are going fast! Driving fast, cutting lanes and speeding through red lights all involve other people. YOU are not the only person on the streets and you should show what was once "common courtesy" to the other drivers. This attitude of "only me" or "me first" WILL get you and someone else killed! The world is full of people that speed and Will die early. Unfortunately, they will probably take an innocent person with them. You speed and you'll do the deed! | |
Comment (10/2002): It doesn't matter how good a driver you think you are,if you are going too fast and someone pulls out in front of you or trys to merge into traffic. You can not stop that vehicle any quicker unless you slow down. You may even lose control. It happens to the best drivers. The speeds are there for a reason, observe them and you'll have a much better chance at reaching a ripe old age. You should always slow down when coming into a town (whether their is a sign or not) or coming up to an intersection. People get impatient and they will pull out in front of you, and I don't care if you are a professional race car driver you can't stop the car unless you slow down. | |
Comment (2/2003): I can't say this more "LEFT LANE IS FOR PASSING ONLY!!!" If your not passing someone move over this help's traffic in so many ways | |
Comment (3/2003): I am amazed at the time and energy spent by people trying to rationalize breaking the law. Being able to ignore the laws we don't agree with is not a legal option, but it is an option...and if you chose to do so...then shut up, pay the fines, and stop whining. In general, I follow the speed limit, but the times I have been ticketed, I just paid my fine quietly and moved on with my life. Its called taking responsiblity for my actions. What a novel idea, huh? What a bunch of whiners. | |
Comment (4/2003): I see first hand the results of people who disregard traffic laws. These laws, no matter how petty you think they might be are there for one rason, your protection. Speeding, no seat belt, no helmet, I could go on for pages, there is a reason. As for you goinmg "just shy of 93", please pull your head out of the dark hole it is inserted into, I don't want to scrape what is left of your mangeled body up off the street when you crash at that speed. Belive me, the probability will die at that speed is in the 90's. Anything can happen, you hit a unseen nail or anything that blows a tire at that speed, you will meet your maker. Then I will have to live with the image of your mangeled and broken dead body in my mind with each accident I am dispatched to | |
Comment (6/2003): Just a note for the area... I live a couple blocks away and they are there several nights a week. What a lot of folks don't know is that despite being "in Austin" there are a lot of deer around. They usually stick to the frontage road area, coming across it late at night to eat the grass next to 183. Occasioanlly though they do end up on 183. Just thought y'all might like to know. | |
Comment (11/2002): Dear DPS employee: has it not occurred to you that the people who submit the reports you transcribe might have certain biases that factor into the causes they list on their accident reports? There have actually been studies in recent years that showed that accident investigators tend to cite speeding as a causative factor in accidents far more often than it actually is a causative factor? I'm sorry, but the DPS does not contribute to public safety, except on the occasions when they find the 18-wheelers loaded with illegal aliens who are baking in the hot Texas summer (and gee, thanks, can't thank you enough for looking out for these CRIMINALS who shouldn't be experiencing the hot Texas summer in the first place). The rest of the time they drive around issuing tickets on deserted stretches of roads to people who've exceeded some arbitrary and unreasonable speed limit in a town with traffic so light there's no one else to endanger. Half the time, those cited aren't even guilty -- the DPS uses moving radar to the exclusion of pretty much every other method of speed detection, and it's really not that hard to generate a high erroneous reading with the equipment they use. That said, I can't say I sympathize with the 93MPH guy, but thanks for the warning anyway. | |
Comment (11/2002): DPS worker, Fear the law? Since you are so knowledgeable, working for the DPS and all, it's probably a good idea that you warn everyone personally about the hordes of jack-booted thugs that waste tax payer money in rural areas threatening good citizens with speeding tickets instead of doing some real police work. I see them around in areas with like no population giving out tickets for just barely failing to come to a complete stop or in my case, failing to change my address on my driver's license when I had only moved a short while ago. So you can fear the law all you want, but I'll spend my time doing what I can to put other people in power so we can get rid of all the police corruption. I have a clean driving record, but I have been pulled over several times and have realized that most of the officers had been patronizing and had a superiority complex. I mean, when you can't find anything better to do than hanging around a country store, that's about time to pack up and head back to the city where the real crime is at. | |
Comment (11/2002): Fellow DPS employee-Your right. Most people would be shocked at what we see every day as civilian DPS employees. I'm not perfect myself. I have received tickets that I thought were unfair and some that I deserved. I had to grow up, slow down and learn to be responsible behind the wheel. No one has the right to do 93 in an automobile and risk other lives or their own. If you don't care about anyone else, at least try to imagine your parents getting that call in the middle of the night that is every parents worst nightmare. | |
Comment (11/2002): if that DPS employee has 1/2 as many typographical errors in her reports as she does in her posting, there's a problem. seriously though, the Puritanical attitude remarked about earlier is the same as the people who get in the left lane and feel it is their duty to slow people in the left lane down to their version of the correct speed limit. please, if speed offends you, get out of the way. don't endanger others who may have a very good reason to be going at a good clip (ie trying to get to a job interview when they've been unemployed for a long time, hospital, who knows). get off the damn cell phone and let the rest of us go about the business of driving. (and of course, i do not mean 95 in a 30 or flying through a school zone or weaving in and out of traffic). my question is, why is speeding SOOO dangerous, but everyone will, in the same breath, defend their "right" to talk on the phone and drive. did the vehicle become less lethal when you hit "SEND"? | |
Comment (5/2002): I've had my share of unfair speeding tickets (going 65 down a steep hill in a 60mph speed limit zone for example. What was I supposed to do? Ride the brake??) but RACING on PUBLIC roads and doing 93mph to keep up with a friend is outrageous. You are a potential murderer and you should have your license taken away. With 24 traffic fataliites in Austin so far this year (it's only May) it's clear that there are many people on Austin roads who are just like you - careless, impatient, show-offs with no regard for the value of life and no clue about how common traffic fatalities really are. Please don't race or try to keep up with friends on our public roads. Is showing off and competing with your friends worth dying for? Is it worth killing people and going to jail for? Please slow down. | |
Comment (6/2002): Most common traffic accidents and fatalities occur due to drinking/not paying attention/etc etc... speeding isn't as dangerous as the involuntary tax collectors would like us to believe. | |
Comment (7/2002): Ummm... speeding by yourself with 110% attention being paid to the road may not be as dangerous as the gov't would like us to believe. But RACING? Obviously, you are distracted from just driving because you are going to look at where your racing partner is. In that split second you have a great chance of causing an accident. And at a high rate of speed, you may have a blowout from debris that you couldn't avoid. At the posted speed, you'd have a good chance that you'd be alright. At 95 or 100 or more, you'd be very lucky to not suffer critical injuries or death. Racing is stupid and endangers your life, but more importantly, MY life. If you have a death wish, FINE. Kill yourself. Don't kill me. | |
Comment (7/2002): Over-speeding, raging, tailgating, aggressive lane-changing - are all ridiculous and is unsafe. Doing all these things because you have a fast car or you just think "you're so cool" is stupid and is NOT worth risking someone's life, including your own. It's VERY inconsiderate and careless. I live in Austin and experience all the arrogant, unkind, "I want to be first" drivers in this town. I also work for TxDPS in as a data entry operator so I alone enter 1000+ accident reports onto citizens driving records daily. I also enter speeding tickets onto Tx driver's records from all cities within Tx along with other tickets for various traffic violations. A good number of accidents in Tx are caused by not paying attention and by speeding. Some of these accidents have resulted in horrible deaths for innocent drivers including children and adults dying from severed limbs and literaly being ejected from the car. Many have suffered from severe and very gruesome tramas to their bodies. All that could be prevented by obeying the Law and not letting anger drive the car. Basic rule of thumb: Impatience can kill, patience can sustain. Common Sence: you will not be disciplined by the Law if you obey the Law. Doing 93 mph is not shy, it's TOO fast - this shows arrogance and it is reckless. Anyone who drives recklessly, especially those who race illegally and aggressively, deserves heavy penalty and discipline - there is NO POINT in being a speed demon!! "Speed Demons" make the roads just as unsafe as drunk drivers - they both show irresponcibility and can bring the same unfortunate results. Fear Law, obey it's commands and you will be saved - same as basic Christian principle: Fear God, obey His instructions and you will saved. Click It ot Ticket, be responcible and strive to make the roads safe. | |
Comment (9/2002): The previous comment is a typical example of the old American puritanism. Be obedient and nothing bad will happen to you. Let someone decide what is good for you because you are not smart enough to figure that for yourself. That how you end up with an average president. I admit that racing on public streets is bad and dangerous. Though I cannot agree with these ridiculous speed limits: 55 and 65 Mph when the new cars start feeling comfortable around 80 Mph. Unless you are driving a fine Buick. Anyway I believe there are two categories of drivers: 1) responsible and skilled and 2) the rest. The problem is how can you make distinction between them? You cannot. Therefore you set speed limits at which any 2-cent driver would be able to control their car. Abuse is the one that limits everybody's freedom. A responsible person does not abuse. You would not see a responsible driver speeding 90MPh on a crowded highway and you would see him do that on long highway stretch. On the other hand, someone that has no understanding of the consequences of high speeds will care less of the road conditions and will potentially create an accident. Those are the people you should be afraid off. I would personally chose a fast driving driver with no accidents in front of a driver that never drove faster than 70 Mph and has had their share of accidents. My point is: it's not the speed you should be afraid of, it is the driver. And believe me. Those cops dont waste their time clocking me because they want to make the streets safer. They need my money. | |
Comment (9/2002): Response to the DPS employee: Got to agree with you. 93 is really downright ridiculous. I sometimes think DPS gets a little carried away. I've known people to be ticketed for 52 or 53 in a 50 zone. Come on, that's not dangerous. But when you start going 70, 80, 90 in a 50--you bet--it's dangerous and stupid. I hope the DPS stop bothering with 5 over and get people like the 93 in a 50 and put them in Jail. | |
Comment (10/2002): I agree that the Police get too picky about how fast is too fast in certain areas. They do set up speed traps to help pay for their retirements and equipment. To pay for all of this they must "create" the income. I have seen over the years how cars are becoming more like tin cans and how certain people drive them. They drive them too fast for what protection is around them. I have seen collisions where the autos were not going very fast and the damage was extensive. Imagine what one looks like when they are going fast! Driving fast, cutting lanes and speeding through red lights all involve other people. YOU are not the only person on the streets and you should show what was once "common courtesy" to the other drivers. This attitude of "only me" or "me first" WILL get you and someone else killed! The world is full of people that speed and Will die early. Unfortunately, they will probably take an innocent person with them. You speed and you'll do the deed! | |
Comment (10/2002): It doesn't matter how good a driver you think you are,if you are going too fast and someone pulls out in front of you or trys to merge into traffic. You can not stop that vehicle any quicker unless you slow down. You may even lose control. It happens to the best drivers. The speeds are there for a reason, observe them and you'll have a much better chance at reaching a ripe old age. You should always slow down when coming into a town (whether their is a sign or not) or coming up to an intersection. People get impatient and they will pull out in front of you, and I don't care if you are a professional race car driver you can't stop the car unless you slow down. | |
Comment (2/2003): I can't say this more "LEFT LANE IS FOR PASSING ONLY!!!" If your not passing someone move over this help's traffic in so many ways | |
Comment (3/2003): I am amazed at the time and energy spent by people trying to rationalize breaking the law. Being able to ignore the laws we don't agree with is not a legal option, but it is an option...and if you chose to do so...then shut up, pay the fines, and stop whining. In general, I follow the speed limit, but the times I have been ticketed, I just paid my fine quietly and moved on with my life. Its called taking responsiblity for my actions. What a novel idea, huh? What a bunch of whiners. | |
Comment (4/2003): I see first hand the results of people who disregard traffic laws. These laws, no matter how petty you think they might be are there for one rason, your protection. Speeding, no seat belt, no helmet, I could go on for pages, there is a reason. As for you goinmg "just shy of 93", please pull your head out of the dark hole it is inserted into, I don't want to scrape what is left of your mangeled body up off the street when you crash at that speed. Belive me, the probability will die at that speed is in the 90's. Anything can happen, you hit a unseen nail or anything that blows a tire at that speed, you will meet your maker. Then I will have to live with the image of your mangeled and broken dead body in my mind with each accident I am dispatched to | |
Comment (6/2003): Just a note for the area... I live a couple blocks away and they are there several nights a week. What a lot of folks don't know is that despite being "in Austin" there are a lot of deer around. They usually stick to the frontage road area, coming across it late at night to eat the grass next to 183. Occasioanlly though they do end up on 183. Just thought y'all might like to know. | |
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Jurisdiction | Austin, Texas |
Speed Trap Location | 26th and Salado - West Campus near the Deta Chi house |
Nearest Reference Point | n/a |
GPS Coordinates | n/a |
Time of Day | Any time |
Level of Enforcement | Moderate |
Type of Enforcement | Unknown |
Date | 3/2002 |
Police sit in the apartment lot facing Salado, behind the wall between the apartments and the fraternity house, and sometimes on Salado facing 26th next to the Delta Sig house. Both facing 26th. They wait for people to run the stop sign because it is hard to see and Salado is a small one way street. Make sure you stop!!! | |
Comment (11/2002): Dear DPS employee: has it not occurred to you that the people who submit the reports you transcribe might have certain biases that factor into the causes they list on their accident reports? There have actually been studies in recent years that showed that accident investigators tend to cite speeding as a causative factor in accidents far more often than it actually is a causative factor? I'm sorry, but the DPS does not contribute to public safety, except on the occasions when they find the 18-wheelers loaded with illegal aliens who are baking in the hot Texas summer (and gee, thanks, can't thank you enough for looking out for these CRIMINALS who shouldn't be experiencing the hot Texas summer in the first place). The rest of the time they drive around issuing tickets on deserted stretches of roads to people who've exceeded some arbitrary and unreasonable speed limit in a town with traffic so light there's no one else to endanger. Half the time, those cited aren't even guilty -- the DPS uses moving radar to the exclusion of pretty much every other method of speed detection, and it's really not that hard to generate a high erroneous reading with the equipment they use. That said, I can't say I sympathize with the 93MPH guy, but thanks for the warning anyway. | |
Comment (11/2002): DPS worker, Fear the law? Since you are so knowledgeable, working for the DPS and all, it's probably a good idea that you warn everyone personally about the hordes of jack-booted thugs that waste tax payer money in rural areas threatening good citizens with speeding tickets instead of doing some real police work. I see them around in areas with like no population giving out tickets for just barely failing to come to a complete stop or in my case, failing to change my address on my driver's license when I had only moved a short while ago. So you can fear the law all you want, but I'll spend my time doing what I can to put other people in power so we can get rid of all the police corruption. I have a clean driving record, but I have been pulled over several times and have realized that most of the officers had been patronizing and had a superiority complex. I mean, when you can't find anything better to do than hanging around a country store, that's about time to pack up and head back to the city where the real crime is at. | |
Comment (11/2002): Fellow DPS employee-Your right. Most people would be shocked at what we see every day as civilian DPS employees. I'm not perfect myself. I have received tickets that I thought were unfair and some that I deserved. I had to grow up, slow down and learn to be responsible behind the wheel. No one has the right to do 93 in an automobile and risk other lives or their own. If you don't care about anyone else, at least try to imagine your parents getting that call in the middle of the night that is every parents worst nightmare. | |
Comment (11/2002): if that DPS employee has 1/2 as many typographical errors in her reports as she does in her posting, there's a problem. seriously though, the Puritanical attitude remarked about earlier is the same as the people who get in the left lane and feel it is their duty to slow people in the left lane down to their version of the correct speed limit. please, if speed offends you, get out of the way. don't endanger others who may have a very good reason to be going at a good clip (ie trying to get to a job interview when they've been unemployed for a long time, hospital, who knows). get off the damn cell phone and let the rest of us go about the business of driving. (and of course, i do not mean 95 in a 30 or flying through a school zone or weaving in and out of traffic). my question is, why is speeding SOOO dangerous, but everyone will, in the same breath, defend their "right" to talk on the phone and drive. did the vehicle become less lethal when you hit "SEND"? | |
Comment (5/2002): I've had my share of unfair speeding tickets (going 65 down a steep hill in a 60mph speed limit zone for example. What was I supposed to do? Ride the brake??) but RACING on PUBLIC roads and doing 93mph to keep up with a friend is outrageous. You are a potential murderer and you should have your license taken away. With 24 traffic fataliites in Austin so far this year (it's only May) it's clear that there are many people on Austin roads who are just like you - careless, impatient, show-offs with no regard for the value of life and no clue about how common traffic fatalities really are. Please don't race or try to keep up with friends on our public roads. Is showing off and competing with your friends worth dying for? Is it worth killing people and going to jail for? Please slow down. | |
Comment (6/2002): Most common traffic accidents and fatalities occur due to drinking/not paying attention/etc etc... speeding isn't as dangerous as the involuntary tax collectors would like us to believe. | |
Comment (7/2002): Ummm... speeding by yourself with 110% attention being paid to the road may not be as dangerous as the gov't would like us to believe. But RACING? Obviously, you are distracted from just driving because you are going to look at where your racing partner is. In that split second you have a great chance of causing an accident. And at a high rate of speed, you may have a blowout from debris that you couldn't avoid. At the posted speed, you'd have a good chance that you'd be alright. At 95 or 100 or more, you'd be very lucky to not suffer critical injuries or death. Racing is stupid and endangers your life, but more importantly, MY life. If you have a death wish, FINE. Kill yourself. Don't kill me. | |
Comment (7/2002): Over-speeding, raging, tailgating, aggressive lane-changing - are all ridiculous and is unsafe. Doing all these things because you have a fast car or you just think "you're so cool" is stupid and is NOT worth risking someone's life, including your own. It's VERY inconsiderate and careless. I live in Austin and experience all the arrogant, unkind, "I want to be first" drivers in this town. I also work for TxDPS in as a data entry operator so I alone enter 1000+ accident reports onto citizens driving records daily. I also enter speeding tickets onto Tx driver's records from all cities within Tx along with other tickets for various traffic violations. A good number of accidents in Tx are caused by not paying attention and by speeding. Some of these accidents have resulted in horrible deaths for innocent drivers including children and adults dying from severed limbs and literaly being ejected from the car. Many have suffered from severe and very gruesome tramas to their bodies. All that could be prevented by obeying the Law and not letting anger drive the car. Basic rule of thumb: Impatience can kill, patience can sustain. Common Sence: you will not be disciplined by the Law if you obey the Law. Doing 93 mph is not shy, it's TOO fast - this shows arrogance and it is reckless. Anyone who drives recklessly, especially those who race illegally and aggressively, deserves heavy penalty and discipline - there is NO POINT in being a speed demon!! "Speed Demons" make the roads just as unsafe as drunk drivers - they both show irresponcibility and can bring the same unfortunate results. Fear Law, obey it's commands and you will be saved - same as basic Christian principle: Fear God, obey His instructions and you will saved. Click It ot Ticket, be responcible and strive to make the roads safe. | |
Comment (9/2002): The previous comment is a typical example of the old American puritanism. Be obedient and nothing bad will happen to you. Let someone decide what is good for you because you are not smart enough to figure that for yourself. That how you end up with an average president. I admit that racing on public streets is bad and dangerous. Though I cannot agree with these ridiculous speed limits: 55 and 65 Mph when the new cars start feeling comfortable around 80 Mph. Unless you are driving a fine Buick. Anyway I believe there are two categories of drivers: 1) responsible and skilled and 2) the rest. The problem is how can you make distinction between them? You cannot. Therefore you set speed limits at which any 2-cent driver would be able to control their car. Abuse is the one that limits everybody's freedom. A responsible person does not abuse. You would not see a responsible driver speeding 90MPh on a crowded highway and you would see him do that on long highway stretch. On the other hand, someone that has no understanding of the consequences of high speeds will care less of the road conditions and will potentially create an accident. Those are the people you should be afraid off. I would personally chose a fast driving driver with no accidents in front of a driver that never drove faster than 70 Mph and has had their share of accidents. My point is: it's not the speed you should be afraid of, it is the driver. And believe me. Those cops dont waste their time clocking me because they want to make the streets safer. They need my money. | |
Comment (9/2002): Response to the DPS employee: Got to agree with you. 93 is really downright ridiculous. I sometimes think DPS gets a little carried away. I've known people to be ticketed for 52 or 53 in a 50 zone. Come on, that's not dangerous. But when you start going 70, 80, 90 in a 50--you bet--it's dangerous and stupid. I hope the DPS stop bothering with 5 over and get people like the 93 in a 50 and put them in Jail. | |
Comment (10/2002): I agree that the Police get too picky about how fast is too fast in certain areas. They do set up speed traps to help pay for their retirements and equipment. To pay for all of this they must "create" the income. I have seen over the years how cars are becoming more like tin cans and how certain people drive them. They drive them too fast for what protection is around them. I have seen collisions where the autos were not going very fast and the damage was extensive. Imagine what one looks like when they are going fast! Driving fast, cutting lanes and speeding through red lights all involve other people. YOU are not the only person on the streets and you should show what was once "common courtesy" to the other drivers. This attitude of "only me" or "me first" WILL get you and someone else killed! The world is full of people that speed and Will die early. Unfortunately, they will probably take an innocent person with them. You speed and you'll do the deed! | |
Comment (10/2002): It doesn't matter how good a driver you think you are,if you are going too fast and someone pulls out in front of you or trys to merge into traffic. You can not stop that vehicle any quicker unless you slow down. You may even lose control. It happens to the best drivers. The speeds are there for a reason, observe them and you'll have a much better chance at reaching a ripe old age. You should always slow down when coming into a town (whether their is a sign or not) or coming up to an intersection. People get impatient and they will pull out in front of you, and I don't care if you are a professional race car driver you can't stop the car unless you slow down. | |
Comment (2/2003): I can't say this more "LEFT LANE IS FOR PASSING ONLY!!!" If your not passing someone move over this help's traffic in so many ways | |
Comment (3/2003): I am amazed at the time and energy spent by people trying to rationalize breaking the law. Being able to ignore the laws we don't agree with is not a legal option, but it is an option...and if you chose to do so...then shut up, pay the fines, and stop whining. In general, I follow the speed limit, but the times I have been ticketed, I just paid my fine quietly and moved on with my life. Its called taking responsiblity for my actions. What a novel idea, huh? What a bunch of whiners. | |
Comment (4/2003): I see first hand the results of people who disregard traffic laws. These laws, no matter how petty you think they might be are there for one rason, your protection. Speeding, no seat belt, no helmet, I could go on for pages, there is a reason. As for you goinmg "just shy of 93", please pull your head out of the dark hole it is inserted into, I don't want to scrape what is left of your mangeled body up off the street when you crash at that speed. Belive me, the probability will die at that speed is in the 90's. Anything can happen, you hit a unseen nail or anything that blows a tire at that speed, you will meet your maker. Then I will have to live with the image of your mangeled and broken dead body in my mind with each accident I am dispatched to | |
Comment (6/2003): Just a note for the area... I live a couple blocks away and they are there several nights a week. What a lot of folks don't know is that despite being "in Austin" there are a lot of deer around. They usually stick to the frontage road area, coming across it late at night to eat the grass next to 183. Occasioanlly though they do end up on 183. Just thought y'all might like to know. | |
Comment (11/2002): Dear DPS employee: has it not occurred to you that the people who submit the reports you transcribe might have certain biases that factor into the causes they list on their accident reports? There have actually been studies in recent years that showed that accident investigators tend to cite speeding as a causative factor in accidents far more often than it actually is a causative factor? I'm sorry, but the DPS does not contribute to public safety, except on the occasions when they find the 18-wheelers loaded with illegal aliens who are baking in the hot Texas summer (and gee, thanks, can't thank you enough for looking out for these CRIMINALS who shouldn't be experiencing the hot Texas summer in the first place). The rest of the time they drive around issuing tickets on deserted stretches of roads to people who've exceeded some arbitrary and unreasonable speed limit in a town with traffic so light there's no one else to endanger. Half the time, those cited aren't even guilty -- the DPS uses moving radar to the exclusion of pretty much every other method of speed detection, and it's really not that hard to generate a high erroneous reading with the equipment they use. That said, I can't say I sympathize with the 93MPH guy, but thanks for the warning anyway. | |
Comment (11/2002): DPS worker, Fear the law? Since you are so knowledgeable, working for the DPS and all, it's probably a good idea that you warn everyone personally about the hordes of jack-booted thugs that waste tax payer money in rural areas threatening good citizens with speeding tickets instead of doing some real police work. I see them around in areas with like no population giving out tickets for just barely failing to come to a complete stop or in my case, failing to change my address on my driver's license when I had only moved a short while ago. So you can fear the law all you want, but I'll spend my time doing what I can to put other people in power so we can get rid of all the police corruption. I have a clean driving record, but I have been pulled over several times and have realized that most of the officers had been patronizing and had a superiority complex. I mean, when you can't find anything better to do than hanging around a country store, that's about time to pack up and head back to the city where the real crime is at. | |
Comment (11/2002): Fellow DPS employee-Your right. Most people would be shocked at what we see every day as civilian DPS employees. I'm not perfect myself. I have received tickets that I thought were unfair and some that I deserved. I had to grow up, slow down and learn to be responsible behind the wheel. No one has the right to do 93 in an automobile and risk other lives or their own. If you don't care about anyone else, at least try to imagine your parents getting that call in the middle of the night that is every parents worst nightmare. | |
Comment (11/2002): if that DPS employee has 1/2 as many typographical errors in her reports as she does in her posting, there's a problem. seriously though, the Puritanical attitude remarked about earlier is the same as the people who get in the left lane and feel it is their duty to slow people in the left lane down to their version of the correct speed limit. please, if speed offends you, get out of the way. don't endanger others who may have a very good reason to be going at a good clip (ie trying to get to a job interview when they've been unemployed for a long time, hospital, who knows). get off the damn cell phone and let the rest of us go about the business of driving. (and of course, i do not mean 95 in a 30 or flying through a school zone or weaving in and out of traffic). my question is, why is speeding SOOO dangerous, but everyone will, in the same breath, defend their "right" to talk on the phone and drive. did the vehicle become less lethal when you hit "SEND"? | |
Comment (5/2002): I've had my share of unfair speeding tickets (going 65 down a steep hill in a 60mph speed limit zone for example. What was I supposed to do? Ride the brake??) but RACING on PUBLIC roads and doing 93mph to keep up with a friend is outrageous. You are a potential murderer and you should have your license taken away. With 24 traffic fataliites in Austin so far this year (it's only May) it's clear that there are many people on Austin roads who are just like you - careless, impatient, show-offs with no regard for the value of life and no clue about how common traffic fatalities really are. Please don't race or try to keep up with friends on our public roads. Is showing off and competing with your friends worth dying for? Is it worth killing people and going to jail for? Please slow down. | |
Comment (6/2002): Most common traffic accidents and fatalities occur due to drinking/not paying attention/etc etc... speeding isn't as dangerous as the involuntary tax collectors would like us to believe. | |
Comment (7/2002): Ummm... speeding by yourself with 110% attention being paid to the road may not be as dangerous as the gov't would like us to believe. But RACING? Obviously, you are distracted from just driving because you are going to look at where your racing partner is. In that split second you have a great chance of causing an accident. And at a high rate of speed, you may have a blowout from debris that you couldn't avoid. At the posted speed, you'd have a good chance that you'd be alright. At 95 or 100 or more, you'd be very lucky to not suffer critical injuries or death. Racing is stupid and endangers your life, but more importantly, MY life. If you have a death wish, FINE. Kill yourself. Don't kill me. | |
Comment (7/2002): Over-speeding, raging, tailgating, aggressive lane-changing - are all ridiculous and is unsafe. Doing all these things because you have a fast car or you just think "you're so cool" is stupid and is NOT worth risking someone's life, including your own. It's VERY inconsiderate and careless. I live in Austin and experience all the arrogant, unkind, "I want to be first" drivers in this town. I also work for TxDPS in as a data entry operator so I alone enter 1000+ accident reports onto citizens driving records daily. I also enter speeding tickets onto Tx driver's records from all cities within Tx along with other tickets for various traffic violations. A good number of accidents in Tx are caused by not paying attention and by speeding. Some of these accidents have resulted in horrible deaths for innocent drivers including children and adults dying from severed limbs and literaly being ejected from the car. Many have suffered from severe and very gruesome tramas to their bodies. All that could be prevented by obeying the Law and not letting anger drive the car. Basic rule of thumb: Impatience can kill, patience can sustain. Common Sence: you will not be disciplined by the Law if you obey the Law. Doing 93 mph is not shy, it's TOO fast - this shows arrogance and it is reckless. Anyone who drives recklessly, especially those who race illegally and aggressively, deserves heavy penalty and discipline - there is NO POINT in being a speed demon!! "Speed Demons" make the roads just as unsafe as drunk drivers - they both show irresponcibility and can bring the same unfortunate results. Fear Law, obey it's commands and you will be saved - same as basic Christian principle: Fear God, obey His instructions and you will saved. Click It ot Ticket, be responcible and strive to make the roads safe. | |
Comment (9/2002): The previous comment is a typical example of the old American puritanism. Be obedient and nothing bad will happen to you. Let someone decide what is good for you because you are not smart enough to figure that for yourself. That how you end up with an average president. I admit that racing on public streets is bad and dangerous. Though I cannot agree with these ridiculous speed limits: 55 and 65 Mph when the new cars start feeling comfortable around 80 Mph. Unless you are driving a fine Buick. Anyway I believe there are two categories of drivers: 1) responsible and skilled and 2) the rest. The problem is how can you make distinction between them? You cannot. Therefore you set speed limits at which any 2-cent driver would be able to control their car. Abuse is the one that limits everybody's freedom. A responsible person does not abuse. You would not see a responsible driver speeding 90MPh on a crowded highway and you would see him do that on long highway stretch. On the other hand, someone that has no understanding of the consequences of high speeds will care less of the road conditions and will potentially create an accident. Those are the people you should be afraid off. I would personally chose a fast driving driver with no accidents in front of a driver that never drove faster than 70 Mph and has had their share of accidents. My point is: it's not the speed you should be afraid of, it is the driver. And believe me. Those cops dont waste their time clocking me because they want to make the streets safer. They need my money. | |
Comment (9/2002): Response to the DPS employee: Got to agree with you. 93 is really downright ridiculous. I sometimes think DPS gets a little carried away. I've known people to be ticketed for 52 or 53 in a 50 zone. Come on, that's not dangerous. But when you start going 70, 80, 90 in a 50--you bet--it's dangerous and stupid. I hope the DPS stop bothering with 5 over and get people like the 93 in a 50 and put them in Jail. | |
Comment (10/2002): I agree that the Police get too picky about how fast is too fast in certain areas. They do set up speed traps to help pay for their retirements and equipment. To pay for all of this they must "create" the income. I have seen over the years how cars are becoming more like tin cans and how certain people drive them. They drive them too fast for what protection is around them. I have seen collisions where the autos were not going very fast and the damage was extensive. Imagine what one looks like when they are going fast! Driving fast, cutting lanes and speeding through red lights all involve other people. YOU are not the only person on the streets and you should show what was once "common courtesy" to the other drivers. This attitude of "only me" or "me first" WILL get you and someone else killed! The world is full of people that speed and Will die early. Unfortunately, they will probably take an innocent person with them. You speed and you'll do the deed! | |
Comment (10/2002): It doesn't matter how good a driver you think you are,if you are going too fast and someone pulls out in front of you or trys to merge into traffic. You can not stop that vehicle any quicker unless you slow down. You may even lose control. It happens to the best drivers. The speeds are there for a reason, observe them and you'll have a much better chance at reaching a ripe old age. You should always slow down when coming into a town (whether their is a sign or not) or coming up to an intersection. People get impatient and they will pull out in front of you, and I don't care if you are a professional race car driver you can't stop the car unless you slow down. | |
Comment (2/2003): I can't say this more "LEFT LANE IS FOR PASSING ONLY!!!" If your not passing someone move over this help's traffic in so many ways | |
Comment (3/2003): I am amazed at the time and energy spent by people trying to rationalize breaking the law. Being able to ignore the laws we don't agree with is not a legal option, but it is an option...and if you chose to do so...then shut up, pay the fines, and stop whining. In general, I follow the speed limit, but the times I have been ticketed, I just paid my fine quietly and moved on with my life. Its called taking responsiblity for my actions. What a novel idea, huh? What a bunch of whiners. | |
Comment (4/2003): I see first hand the results of people who disregard traffic laws. These laws, no matter how petty you think they might be are there for one rason, your protection. Speeding, no seat belt, no helmet, I could go on for pages, there is a reason. As for you goinmg "just shy of 93", please pull your head out of the dark hole it is inserted into, I don't want to scrape what is left of your mangeled body up off the street when you crash at that speed. Belive me, the probability will die at that speed is in the 90's. Anything can happen, you hit a unseen nail or anything that blows a tire at that speed, you will meet your maker. Then I will have to live with the image of your mangeled and broken dead body in my mind with each accident I am dispatched to | |
Comment (6/2003): Just a note for the area... I live a couple blocks away and they are there several nights a week. What a lot of folks don't know is that despite being "in Austin" there are a lot of deer around. They usually stick to the frontage road area, coming across it late at night to eat the grass next to 183. Occasioanlly though they do end up on 183. Just thought y'all might like to know. | |
Comment (11/2002): Dear DPS employee: has it not occurred to you that the people who submit the reports you transcribe might have certain biases that factor into the causes they list on their accident reports? There have actually been studies in recent years that showed that accident investigators tend to cite speeding as a causative factor in accidents far more often than it actually is a causative factor? I'm sorry, but the DPS does not contribute to public safety, except on the occasions when they find the 18-wheelers loaded with illegal aliens who are baking in the hot Texas summer (and gee, thanks, can't thank you enough for looking out for these CRIMINALS who shouldn't be experiencing the hot Texas summer in the first place). The rest of the time they drive around issuing tickets on deserted stretches of roads to people who've exceeded some arbitrary and unreasonable speed limit in a town with traffic so light there's no one else to endanger. Half the time, those cited aren't even guilty -- the DPS uses moving radar to the exclusion of pretty much every other method of speed detection, and it's really not that hard to generate a high erroneous reading with the equipment they use. That said, I can't say I sympathize with | |