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Re: Solve speeding by limiting cars!



jeremyh@mailhost.amcc.com (Jeremy Hansen) wrote:

>Hmmm, everytime I've ever read the little driver's pamphlets the Department
>of Motor Vehicles gives out it says that the maximum speed limit is an 
>absolute, and that exceeding it, even to pass, is a violation of the law.
>
>

Depends on two things:
1) what state you're in, and
2) what roads you're on.

Some states have "prima facie" speed limits where exceeding 
them is legal if you can prove that your actions were not 
unreasonable or dangerous.  

The other exception is a little-known clause of the wonderful 
National Maximum Speed Limit law.  You cannot exceed it under 
any circumstances; it is absolute.  The anti-speed, big- 
government forces won another round.



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