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SPEED-RELATED

Few drivers view speeding as an immediate risk to their personal safety, but speeding reduces a driver’s ability to steer safely around curves on highways or objects in the roadway.  Speed extends the distance necessary to stop a vehicle and increases the distance a vehicle travels while a driver reacts to danger.

CONSEQUENCES OF SPEEDING
 Fines do NOT include Court Costs

Speeding Violation
Normal Fine
Fine in
Construction Zone
 & School Crossing Zone
Points Assessed
Against Drivers License
1-5 mph over posted limit
$10.00
$20.00
1
6-10 mph over posted limit
$25.00
$50.00
2
11-15 mph over posted limit
$75.00
$150.00
3
16-20 mph over posted limit
$125.00
$250.00
3
21-35 mph over posted limit

$200.00
$400.00
3
35 mph + over posted limit
$300.00
$600.00
4

You can be ticketed and charged with a speed violation by exceeding the posted speed limit for the road on which you are driving.  Due to weather conditions (i.e., snow, ice, rain, etc.) you could be given a ticket for speeding too fast for road conditions.  Nebraska law enforcement officers use aircraft, Doppler radar, laser radar, and vascar to clock the speed of motor vehicles. The law for speeding limit violations and fines can be found under section 60-682.01.

FACTS: 

Speed -- exceeding the posted limit or driving too fast for conditions – is one of the most prevalent factors contributing to traffic crashes.

In Nebraska, more than one out of ten fatal crashes are speed-related.

The chances of death or serious injury double for every 10 mph over 50 mph a vehicle travels.

The total stopping distance for a vehicle traveling at 60 mph is longer than a football field; at 75 mph it takes 1 ½ football fields.

Fines for speeding are doubled for exceeding the posted speed limit in construction zones and in school crossing zones.