This comment: http://imcdb.org/vehicle.php?id=199061 brought me that idea to open a thread about tickets and fines we got in traffic.

I admit, that I'm collecting mine. I even have put them into glass-frames and have hanged them up in my private office at home. Nice to remember my cars, because I have "random" pics or tickets with nearly every car I ever had. But no strange ideas, it's not many all together, statisticially I'd say, I get one every 1 1/2 years.

And do you think that's normal? you get a ticket every year and a half?? what do you do if i may ask? but that's a lot

I hit the gas too hard/early in the rain, and fishtailed on an empty street at 2am. Unfortunately, there was a doughnut shop on the other side of the street and I was soon surrounded by police. Lost my licence for three months.
That's the only major one, I got a fix-it ticket for a broken headlight and a warning because I went around a corner 'kind of fast'.

I have never had any traffic or parking violations issued against me. I drive like I have some common sense. Call me a party pooper, snob, or what have you (my comical friends do, they also flaunt their tickets as if they were battle scars) I’m quite proud of my spotless driving record.

This is not to say I have never been pulled over by police. I have, many times. NC-DMV will pull over anyone just to check and make sure everything is in pristine order (tags, inspection, if you’re wearing your seat-belt, etc.)

The most recent "pull over" was because of my new truck – it had a 30 Day issued temporary paper tags. The officer that pulled me over was not NC-DMC, but a local Wilmington cop. He was checking to make sure I was not over the 30 Day limit (and indeed I was not)

Anything noteworthy. 2 or 3 times slightly too fast (wasn´t really much, 5 km/ h or something), equally 2 or 3 times parking ticket expired for a really short time. In relation to more than 1000 cars that I´ve driven so far in the last 14 years, this is really "peanuts". Never had any "Punkte in Flensburg", no tailgating or anything comparable, always wearing seatbelts etc. But anyway, I hated every single fine, for my aim is to drive (and park) properly. Thus I never collected them but threw them away in anger.

None yet, but I've only been driving less then two years, and less then one year by myself.

3 Parkingtickets 100+200+200 SEK
2 Speeding 1200+1500 SEK
1 Driving with a car that haven't been to the carinspection. 1500 SEK

A total of 4700 SEK (470 Euro / $605)

When I was in high school (young and stupid), I was stuck behind a car poking along at about 20 mph in a 30 mph zone. It was on a relatively long and straight road that was marked as no passing, so I knew I'd be stuck behind them for a while and I became impatient. Once I got to the straightaway, I floored the gas pedal of my parents' 1977 Ford F-250 SuperDuty (with 460 c.i.d. engine). Little did I know there was a speed trap in this small municipality which was known for having only one cop.

After I passed the slow car, the police car which had been sitting hidden pulled out behind me with lights flashing. I pulled over and removed my seat belt to be able to get my wallet out with my driver's license. The cop ended up writing me tickets for tailgating, passing in a no-passing zone, 55 mph in a 30 mph zone, and not wearing a seat belt.

I foolishly asked him if I would need a lawyer, and he said no. He told me that they would probably throw one of the charges out, and that I could do traffic school for the others. Well, I went to court and it ended up costing ~$300 in fines and I got 4 points on my driver's license even after going to traffic school. Later I got a warning in the mail from the state that if I got any more points within one year then I would get my license suspended.

That was over 15 years ago, and I still get grief about it from my dad on occasion, although now it is in a more joking manner than it was at the time. I have had a better record lately (knock on wood), probably due to being more mature than I was then and along with that somewhat more responsible.

In Spain people seems to be more concerned nowadays since a couple of years ago it started the points method here in Spain, you actually don't gain points but lose them, if you lose them all obviously your license gets suspended, i've just got one year and a few months of license and until this point i haven't had anything yet nor the police has ever sttopped me... yet.

Sometimes there are radars on the motorway and sometimes once i've passed them i wonder, was i under the limit the radar was indicating? because i'm usually talking to whoever comes with me in that moment or something and i don't realize of the radar, or i may do and slow down unconsciounsly but then i do wonder if i did it or not

@CCF: I haven't made any really bad things. O.k., yes, I made kind of illegal things, related with cars, but they haven't caught me.

And all these tickets I got within 20 years. Ecactly 20 years, because today there is a jubilee. At the 7.11.1988 I passed my drivers license-test!

Only one time In had to pay 150 D-Marks (ca.75 Euro), because of a too short distance on the Autobahn. It was just bad luck - even the policeman had said it. I haven't tried to tailgate the other away. I was just driving on the left lane, when annother cars changed the lane and went in front of me, and in this second a camera on a bridge had made "clic"
It wasn't dangerous, I just haven't braked hard enough. I just let the car roll without gas, as I mostly do.
Probably I got some of these "points in Flensburg", but it was over 12 years ago, so it's nothing less any more in that database.

Otherwise I only had to pay tiny amounts of money, like 10 or 20 D-Marks (5 to 10 Euro) for parking without a parking-ticket, parking with an expired ticket or so.
On time I had to pay 50 Marks (25 Euro) for wrong parking. It was at an extremely hot day and i wanted to jump into the lake. But the whole parking was full, so I parked in a restricted zone. But my car wasn't towed away. This would have been really ugly and f...ing expensive.

Once I was really chased by the police, on the Autobahn, with blue lights and so. The reason: my TÜV, the technical test, was expired for 3 months. So a really heavy criminal delict...
An orange K 70 was even in 1993 very rare, so that also policemen have watched it (and the TÜV-data,too)

Once I had to pay 10 Euro, becaus I was fed up with a long traffic-jam in front of a f...ing placed traffic-lights, so I made a diversion along a resident's streets.
For sure, in such situations sometime the police sits behind the bushes and catches all drivers, who make that diversion. It's just to get money, nothing else. The thick traffic is no reason to change the light-intervalls


Eh, I nearly forgot: last week I got post from the local police - the first ticket for my Omega, which I had driven for 160 000km in the last 4 1/2 years. I should have been too slow. Too slow, not too fast.
Someone had made a police-notification, because I should have driven too slow from the entry-lane on right lane of the Autobahn.
Perhaps it was one of this kind of asshole-truckers, who have fun to blocade the right lane for entering cars. They accelerate and/or they're closing the distance to the truckin front of them. This makes me angry indeed, I accelerate, too and squeezing me in front of him. When he get agressive I let the car roll slower, so he had to brake.

Anyways, I'm not afraid of that notification. The other guy says it's so, says, it's different, so 50:50. And I have a witness, for sure My wife takes the same direction at the same time with her car and she can confirm, that I never do that things i have described above.

I received my last ticket January 2007. 12 km/h (7,5 mph) too quick on a city street. The fine was 20 EUR or so. I like to drive quick but not brainless. And usually I detect the speed traps before they catch me.

The tickets my mum has got will outnumber all of you! LOL

Is she a "dynamic" driver or too lazy to find a non-dangerous parking-lot?

I suppose you could call her a little bit 'dynamic', yes.

Interesting topic, it was just the other day that I get one of my first tickets. Early this year I drove to Florida with my friends in my Montero (yes it made it somehow 15 hours there and back) and we literally drove my car 115 mph through Georgia and never once got pulled over. I've never received a speeding ticket or anything. The other day though I got a ticket for not wearing my seat belt. For some reason in my car I feel so damn safe that I always forget to put it on. I went two blocks from where I parked and got pulled over. He also told me, which I was completely unaware, that addresses have to be changed on your license and registration every time you move. Supposedly the fine for not doing that is over $100 each. He let me go with just the seat belt ticket probably because I activate my charm when policeman are around.

You really feel like that? i can't help but feel unsafe in a car if i'm not wearing the seatbelt while i'm driving (or as a passenger), even if i was driving a big SUV or any other big vehicle, i just feel like i'm missing something that holds my body if i brake, and even if i feel safe i just do it for the tickets and the points loose of my license, i don't want to lose points for a thing like that it has a very easy solution, i put my seatbelt on by the time i enter the car, i don't even start the engine, i put the keys in the ignition and then put my belt on, then start, this way i'll never get caught, also i'm not of those that unlock their belts right when they enter a city, i admit my dad is one of those and some day he'll be caught, he feels the need of taking the belt off when he enters a city and i'll never understand why, but that's it.

A girl in my office (a real cutie) has once saved herself being bumsucking, obedient and fraudulent as its worst.

Over a big crossing in Cologne she scorched with high speed at red lights. Deeply red, all other cars were standing. She just didn't want to stop.
Unfortunately stood a police-car on the other side. It turned, blue lights on and Carina had immediately known "It's all over now, baby".
When the cops got her, she presented an really ugly show, cried a little bit, wailed "Uuuh, I'm such a bad girl, a little sinner, I've never made it before, I'll never make it again" ....blablabla.... Very unsavoury indeed.

After a while the cop suckered on her comedy and said "Ah, I see, you are really regretting your behaviour. Please stop crying. I see, that you've entered the crossing by yellow lights. The fine is 10 Euro for that".

Carina couldn't believe her luck. Yes, she was disgusted about herself, but for what a success: passing a red light after several seconds (advisedly!), normally it would have been absolutely "Game over!", a court hearing, several hundreds of Euros as fine, "points in the Flensburg-list" and at least some months without drivers license....
But for her only 10 lousy Euros.

Well you said she passed it in "amber", i don't know for Germany but in Spain that wouldn't be a reason for a ticket, amber is caution, you have to slow down to make a full stop but if you're so on the traffic light that you're able to pass in time you can do it.

Here in the U.S. for a Intersection light:

Green means: Go
Yellow (Amber) means: Go Faster!
Red means: Stop

Haha actually it's kind of that here as well many people speed up when the amber is on instead of slowing down