A new law passed in 2023 expanded the areas where speed radar technology can be used.
In New York, and where I’m, I see speed cameras in school zones. I also read a news article of a man receiving multiple school zone camera tickets that amounted to a thousand dollar and more in fines because the camera repeatedly clocked him going over the speed limit several times within a month or so.
I’m just waiting for them to send me the same fines because I recently realized I’ve been driving 35 to 40mph through the school zone without noticing it. I mean, my car is pretty quick and in no time the speedometer can be at 45mph.
The thing, though, everyone else is ahead of me which makes me think I’m going too slow.
But one night driving through the school zone I saw the camera flash and that’s how I noticed there was a camera and my car was going 40mph.
This was about a month and a half ago. Still nothing in the mail. We will see.
My GPS chimes when I enter a school zone. See f you have that option.
The speed camera system is set to take photos above a preset speed. The police or camera company may review the pictures with associated speed data and decide whether to send a citation or not. My county tells the public on a website where the school speed cameras will be each week. I try too adjust my speed in school zones, especially when I know a camera is there, but I sometimes get lost in thought and I’m more than 5 mph over the limit.
Deemed illegal here in NH.
What time at night ??
I am wondering if you are a little confused/clueless here, At least here in TN anyway, school zones are ONLY active for maybe 20-30 minutes in the morning time(for a single school, longer if dealing with 2 or more schools such as middle and high) as kids are being dropped off by bus or car, and 20-30 minutes in the afternoon when being picked back up… In the other 23 hours a day it is NOT a school zone, so normal speed limit applies for 23 hours a day unless otherwise noted such as a game or PTA meeting etc etc… So that would be the reasoning for EVERYONE else driving fast also., as well as night time…
There’s a difference between a school-zone and an ACTIVE school-zone. You should know the difference.
I believe at the time when I saw the camera the time was about 6pm. I don’t really know if the cameras are active 24/7 outside of NYC, but when I did my research a few minutes ago to verify, I saw that the cameras are active 24/7 in NYC.
I was coming from my sister’s home when it happened. According to my sister, the cameras are probably active 24/7, and advised that I don’t exceed 30mph. After all, this in NEWYORK where crazy things happen.
Cool. I will check my car factory GPS unit to see if this feature is available.
Would be super helpful if it does.
I don’t know what part of Tennessee you are in but state law says the school zones are active for 45 min before and 15 min after school starting time and 15 min before and 45 min after school lets out. Most of the warning signs are solar powered and on an automatic timer, so they come on during holidays as well, kind of annoying.
We had a tornado, EF3+ that took out both the elementary and middle schools, but the lights still worked for almost a year before public works finally took them down.
BUT, I wonder if the local law enforcement uses different standards for locals and out of towners. I was making trips daily to a town about 100 miles away for about three weeks a while back. On the last day, I got a speeding ticket the last day for going 7 over. I was trying to get around a slow truck before the highway necked down to two lanes. License plates in Tennessee show your county of residence. I wonder if a local would have gotten a ticket for the same speed or if they would have had a larger tolerance. I suspect a local would have had to be going a lot faster for a ticket in this zone.
In my county, and maybe all of MD, the speed drops when the lights are flashing but when the cameras are on site, they operate continuously for entire week. Then they are moved to another location.
If you were speeding, meaning doing 45 in a 30 (or whatever), then it has nothing to do with it being a school zone, school was over no flashing lights or crossing guards, it is having a camera there catching speeders… The camera could have been put anywhere, it just happened to be in a place that has an active school zone for a few hours a day… Normal laws apply…
Yes, as I said active, meaning the lights are blinking, figured that was a given… lol
The lights around my part, Sumner county, are mostly turned on by hand cause I don’t see them when schools out for what ever reason… We also have crossing guards directing traffic…
My whole point was, your not going to get a speeding ticket for going over the 15-20 mph active school zone when it is not an active school zone and it is the 30 mph (or whatever) normal speed limit…
But if it is normally a 30 mph speed limit and you are doing 45 and get caught by a camera, well duhh, that could happen anywhere, anytime…
If the lights are flashing and or a crossing guard is working traffic, then slow the F DOWN… gezzz it’s not rocket science…
The speeding cameras around me are specifically at all the public schools in the county on a rotating basis. They move them Friday afternoon and they are active 24/7. Tickets are assessed whether school is in session or not. That may not be the way they run speed cameras in your area, but it is in mine.
Wow, still not understanding my point… lol
The cameras are not giving tickets out for you doing 45 in a 15mph at 2AM in the morning, they would be giving you a ticket for speeding in a 30 at 2AM in the morning… I don’t care if they work 24/7, so what, but they are not giving tickets for ACTIVE 15 mph school zones 24/7, the rest of the time, when it is NOT an active school zone they are normal cameras doing what every other speed camera is doing… Meaning the speed limit is not 15mph 24/7, only when it is an active school zone…
You are too focused on the portable camera part, and my whole point was about something entirely different…