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Post by SamCogar Sun Aug 15, 2010 9:17 am

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Watch your speed in Gauley Bridge http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201008140354

It's also not clear if Gauley Bridge is reporting all of the speeding ticket convictions from which the city collects fees.

The Gazette-Mail asked Gauley Bridge officials for a copy of the city budgets for each fiscal year from 2002-03 through 2009-10 and a breakdown of the fine revenues regarding traffic and speeding tickets for each of those years.

The city sent copies of its annual budget, but not a breakdown of fine revenues.
When the Whipkey brothers worked in Summersville from 2000 to 2002, the town reported just 3,488 tickets to the DMV -- far fewer than the 12,319 speeding tickets Summersville records showed at the time.

Speeding tickets that are written out may be disposed of in two ways so as to not show up on the DMV statistics, Dale said. Many cities have a diversion program where drivers can take classes, pay fines and get tickets resolved without having them submitted to the DMV and having points taken off their licenses.

Or, drivers can take tickets to court and be found not guilty, Dale said.

"Really, there is no way of knowing how many tickets are issued," he said. "There's no reconciliation of that, ... but the law requires convictions be sent to us unless there is a diversion program."

And you had better watch your "stopping" and "turning" when getting "off" or "on" I-79 at Burnsville.


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