Payment for speeding ticket in Estill Springs

[Guest Field Boss]

A person I work with, his daughter won a speeding ticket in Estill Springs 4 to 6 weeks ago.

Went to court this passed thursday(4/21/11). The ticket was wrote 60mph in a 40mph. The father said there were 40+ people there with tickets and that 95% were women 35 years in age and younger, 2 very old women and 4 men.

The lady who's father I work with got fined $80 and if she did not get anymore tickets in the next 6 months, her record would be cleared. The court would not accept check or any credit or debit cards for payment, just cash. This appears to be strange to me, is this normal?

[LagerHead]

I don't know if it's normal, but it's certainly not uncommon. I used to be in the IT dept. that supported a county government and I know their courts wouldn't accept a personal check. It takes too much time chasing all those that bounce.

[dats82]

It's normal for Estill Springs. They are notorious for being bassackwards with the way they run. The moral of this story is don't speed through Estill Springs. I thought everyone who lived anywhere near there knew that.

[brooksjr]

It's normal for Estill Springs. They are notorious for being bassackwards with the way they run. The moral of this story is don't speed through Estill Springs. I thought everyone who lived anywhere near there knew that.

+1

Estill is notorious for being a speed trap.

[dlm37015]

shoot get one in ashland city just the court cost id 100.00

[RobertNashville]

A person I work with, his daughter won a speeding ticket in Estill Springs 4 to 6 weeks ago.

Went to court this passed thursday(4/21/11). The ticket was wrote 60mph in a 40mph. The father said there were 40+ people there with tickets and that 95% were women 35 years in age and younger, 2 very old women and 4 men.

The lady who's father I work with got fined $80 and if she did not get anymore tickets in the next 6 months, her record would be cleared. The court would not accept check or any credit or debit cards for payment, just cash. This appears to be strange to me, is this normal?

I'm not sure what you are getting at as being "strange"?

Are you suggesting that most of those charged with speeding violations were pulled over because they were women and someone young?

Or, is it their policy on accepting only cash?

Or the fact that her record will be cleared after 6 months w/o further tickets?

[Guest Field Boss]

I'm not sure what you are getting at as being "strange"?

Are you suggesting that most of those charged with speeding violations were pulled over because they were women and someone young?

Or, is it their policy on accepting only cash?

Or the fact that her record will be cleared after 6 months w/o further tickets?

All the above!

[RobertNashville]

All the above!

Getting charges dropped and record cleared after 6 months is not unusual; especially for a first offense and if the charge carries some serious fines, points, etc...most of the time this is called "diversion".

Courts only accepting cash (and I suspect a money order would have been equally acceptable) is also not unusual, at least that's been my experience in Tennessee.

As to the other...you've got part of the story at best...who showed up in court probably represents only a modest percentage of those charged with speeding and similar violations scheduled for court on that date. Even if there was some sort of profiling going on which seems to be what you are thinking, so what? If the people charged with the violations were committing the violations they were charged with then they should have been charged; age/race/sex/national origin/religion doesn't and shouldn't matter should it???