Today's stupid driver is Tonya from Tallahassee. Tonya is a college student who somehow managed to go 25 MPH over the speed limit in a school zone in Tallahassee. Tallahassee is in Leon County Florida and is the Capital of the state.
Tonya's biggest worry is that she cannot actually afford the fine, which is $363.50 according to the Leon County Clerk of Court. She decided to take a traffic school course online, which saves here little on the fine. It goes down to $317. Florida lets you take a 4 hour class for tickets 5 times in your life. By taking the class called "Basic Driver Improvement" you get no points on your drivers license and your insurance cannot go up because of the ticket.
What's really frightening is that Tonya had no clue she was in a school zone and had no clue she was going 25 MPH over the speed limit. She was going 60 MPH in a 35. Not sure what she was thinking but the only place you can go 60 MPH in Florida legally is on a highway like I95 or the Turnpike.
In Florida, speeding fines are doubled in school zones and construction zones.
This seems to prove that there is no connection between basic intelligence and getting a drivers license, or even getting into college. But now Tonya knows the reason they post those school zone signs - it's not to make it easy to find your local elementary school
1 comment:
I think that it is better that she can't afford the ticket. If she doesn't pay attention enough to know that she was going 25 mph over the limit in the first place, let alone in a school zone, then she needs to learn to notice more while driving. Maybe she will concentrate harder now , so that she won't get another ticket.
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