Wisconsin speeding ticket = business opportunity

[BurnItDwn]

Originally posted by: courtjester123

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
You might want to seriously consider the ambulance chasers. I wound up paying a lot more for my insurance for several years due to getting a speeding ticket in Wisconsin and I live in IL. As others are saying, they will report it to IL, and chances are, your insurance rates will be jacked up quite a bit for the next 3-5 years. I drive 20-30 over on rural IL highways, but in WI, I try to keep it to 5-10 over no matter how irrationally low the speed limit is. (for instance, the vast openness between Milwaukee and Green Bay in I43, 65mph speed limit, road is straight, lanes are wide, should be safe for 90-100mph easy, but I just set the cruise to 70ish and go with the flow of traffic.)

Thanks for the information. This is the kind of direct experience I was looking for. I was ticketed for 70 in a 55. The limits were flip-flopping between 65 & 55 and I thought 70 was fairly safe for a 65, just didn't notice it went back down to 55.

Now I need to decide if I show up in court and just ask for leniency or if I try to get one of the lawyers involved to do it for me. I'm probably making more out of this than I really should. I haven't had any kind of traffic citation in about 10 years.

I was just south of the Milwaukee, where the limits were going between 55 and 65 and then back to 55 again. I thought it was a 65 zone, but the cop thought it was a 55 zone. They clocked me in the left lane doing 72. I don't remember exactly where it was, but I was driving home from Milwaukee with my mom and my little brother in the car, we had just visited my grandpa in a Milwaukee Hospital after he had a quadruple bypass surgery and we were all relieved that his surgery went well, and eager to get home as it had been a long day.

I've been ticketed in Illinois in the 1990s a few times, but always went to traffic school so it didn't count against me for insurance, this was the only time I ever had any "points" where my rates were affected. note: I was only like 20 or 21 when I got the ticket in the Milwaukee area, so it's possible that because I was under 25, they raped me worse than if I were to get a ticket today ...

 

[FDF12389]

Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
My sister had to pay cash , 250$ a few years ago...got off without a ticket too.

She's from Minnesota.

I know a lot of people from Minnesota that this has happened to, having to pay cash, on the spot in Wisconsin.

I have never heard of this before and I've been pulled over for speeding 11 times in the last three years in WI.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: courtjester123
So I get an out-of-state speeding ticket (in Milwaukee county; I'm from Illinois) and not even 2 days later the lawyer letters start arriving in the mail. I'm up to about 10 now in the past few days...30 years experience, we can reduce your fine/points and help you avoid insurance premium increases! and blah blah blah.

BTW, from the research I've been doing, Wisconsin is not in the "Driver's License Compact" where states share driving record information with one another. These lawyer letters specifically state that the speeding violation will be reported to Illinois.

Anyone have experience in this area?

My Wisconsin ticket was definitely showing up for AllState when I moved to Colorado. But I was actually a Wisconsin resident when I got the ticket.