The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) will soon be the direct beneficiary of speeding ticket revenue under a bill recently signed by Governor Mitch Daniels (R). The measure gives INDOT the power to decrease speed limits "without conducting an engineering study and investigation" in highway work zones. INDOT can direct police to enforce this lowered limit, regardless of whether workers are actually present. The law also mandates that no work zone speed limit exceed 45 MPH.

As of July 1, INDOT will collect the revenue from these fines which the law also boosts significantly. The first offense runs $300, the second $500 and the third $1000. Anyone contesting the fine in court faces an additional $70 fee.

The bill also creates a new work zone category for "aggressive driving" that makes it a misdemeanor to drive 46 MPH in a freeway work zone while flashing headlights and honking the horn at a slow-moving car in the left lane, or any other combination of three maneuvers deemed aggressive. The first offense carries a $5000 fine and up to one year in jail, while a second offense is a felony punishable by up to three years in jail and a $10,000 fine.




$5000 for driving one MPH over the speed limit in a work zone?
you Indiana.

 

damn! you can count me out of indiana too! not that i plan on driving there.

 

They have always been tough with their speed laws. Considering the normal speed through there is 70mph, and most speedo's are off by 3% +/-, it's crap.

 

sounds unconstitutional. Somone should fight that and would probably win.


Why should you have to pay for the right to a fair trial? That's part of our rights as an american.

bunch of bull****.

yeah for making harder for someone to proove their innocence when you're suppose to prove their guilt. lazy overpaid pieces of ****.

 

this still doesnt make me like CA any better

 

Amen!

 

That wont stand up in court.

 

I would think it'd be less. Kinda like how F&F makes a big cop crackdown.

 

+1111