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Rip-off House Bill 1825
A bill to allow mis-calibrated speed timing equipment in Pennsylvania putting you at risk for unfair speeding tickets
The Pennsylvania House Transportation Committee will be voting on
Monday, October 21, 2019 on House Bill 1825, a bill to allow
speed-timing devices to be calibrated once a year. The result of this
will be speeding tickets issued in error, including many more from speed
traps enforcing speed limits that are posted below the recognized
standard of the 85th Percentile Speed, the safest speed.
Nobody wants to get ripped off, so if someone is driving the speed
limit, but are cited because the speed timing device is out of
calibration, that’s outrageous. Anything can drift out of calibration,
nothing needs to specifically cause it, but certain things can increase
the calibration problems.
Speed-timing devices are used daily, but the bill’s author wants to
calibrate them only once a year. Many factors affect speed-timing
devices: tires on a police car may change, the devices can be dropped or
banged around, mechanical or electrical parts can break, etc. A
self-test error may not always be triggered, and an officer may be
unaware of problems. In addition, it will be more lucrative to issue
tickets, as the police no longer will be required to routinely get the
devices calibrated, which costs money and is a hassle.
Find out what's happening in Tredyffrin-Easttownfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
What should be done, is that all speed-timing devices should be required to undergo
calibration every 60 days. That would be the opposite of what this House
Bill 1825 calls for.
Pennsylvania has a poor track record on speed-timing device accuracy.
Remember the Radargate incident from years past when erroneous tickets
went out routinely? https://www.motorists.org/blog/scales-of-injustice-the-radargate-corruption-scandal/
Find out what's happening in Tredyffrin-Easttownfor free with the latest updates from Patch.
There is only one reason to mandate the use of uncalibrated speed-timing devices: M-O-N-E-Y.
The money to be made by unfairly ticketing safe drivers using faulty speed-timing equipment.
Tell Representative Shusterman to vote NO on House Bill 1825, as well as all the members of the Transportation Committee https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/CteeInfo/index.cfm?Code=38&CteeBody=H.
House Bill 1825 will put faulty equipment to work ticketing safe drivers.
