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Originally Posted by Island Lover
WOW! Are you wrong about this one!
If your boat is going say 70 mph and you are in a fatal accident do you think the ticket is going to be your only problem?
Even if you did nothing else wrong the speeding violation can make it Criminaly Negligent Homicide!
If nobody dies you will still have a lot more hot water to deal with than a speeding ticket. You are being naive.
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You need to go back and re-read my post because you just said the exact same thing that I did.
Lets say the guy barrels into a crowd of boats at 70 and kill some one, they likely will never see the speeding ticket show up as that fine will likely be dropped anyhow as they go through the trial as part of the plee process. As you said the fact that the person traveling at 70 would be facing criminal chages of that magnitude would far outweigh the concern of the speeding ticket. The fact is the guy would face the same changes if they did it today as they did in one year. You make it sound like if I ran over some one today on the lake I would walk off scott free. That is totally false. He will face the same chages.
The problem is you guys are passing a law for a problem that simply does not exist. The one accident that is pointed to over and over again happened at an estimated 1-2MPH over the new mimit? He would not have received a speeding violation.... It is just another law on the books that is there to try and protect people from a problem that does not exist.