Francesca Cisneros racked up 70 speeding tickets in the last five months, a record for the Scottsdale Police Department, police said on Friday.
Speeding cameras in Scottsdale, a suburb of Phoenix, snapped pictures of the 32-year-old woman as she tore through the sun-baked city in her Honda Civic between March 2 and July 31.
“She told arresting officers she was speeding because she seemed to be late for client meetings all the time,” Scottsdale Police Department spokesman Mark Clark told Reuters. “I guess she’s got some time management issues.”
Police said Cisneros said she threw her speeding tickets away because she thought nothing could happen to her if she didn’t pay them.
Clark said Cisneros faces some $11,000 in fines and could have her license suspended.
Ignorance of the law is no defense. Neither is just plain stupidity.
70 tickets and “could have her license suspended”?? Shouldn’t it have been suspended at about ticket 5? Don’t they have points in Arizona licenses? I’m perplexed.
70/11,000
$157.14 per ticket….
HOw fast was she driving??
Being a holder of a CDL (Commercial Drivers License) I am of the opinion that drivers licenses are way to easy to acquire. The last time I took the CDL exam there were 400 closed book questions (general knowledge, air brakes, hazmat …). The exam for a normal car license in my home state is 20 or so open book questions plus that exam can be taken at home and mailed in with no proof of who actually took the test. The U.S. should adopt the German system of licensing and make it a lot tougher and more expensive to have a license.
I’m with AC here. How is it that this woman still has a license? 70 speeding tickets should have her in jail by now!
How about getting rid of the fucking speed cameras.
Well, since speed limits are more about raising revenues than actual safety, these cameras should be a boon for local governments.
yep…Arizona has the points system…the problem comes with the slow response time of the traffic divisions and courts.
When they do try to make the tests harder someone always sues because they are mentally challanged and usually win so the tests are made for anyone with more intelligence than a slug. The ACLU has successfully stopped a lot of written exams because the non-native born don’t comprehend the words and pictures.
Andrew….the cameras didn’t break the law or force you to break it….so how about getting rid of the law breakers, before they kill one of my relatives or maybe yours.
Remember, they even license the legally blind, those that can’t walk without a walker and illegals. Most states have completely stopped any parking test due to court challanges.
And speeding tickets are damn expensive in Arizona.
I’m calling you out, Joshua. Provide proof of even one state that licenses legally blind people. Or else, stop lyiing.
@ Improbus
@ Major Jizz
What you don’t think you can pass a close book test? I have over a million miles of driving experience, how about you?
#9, Major, Sorry, but Improbus is on the right track. There are far too many drivers that should not be allowed on the road. Driving is a privilege, not a right.
And I too would like to see the state that allows the legally blind to drive. Every state I am aware of insists on a minimum standard for vision. Also, if someone challenges a state law, they can’t “win big”. They can only invalidate the law. And which states have dropped any parking test due to court challenges?
Throw the woman in jail for a few months and take away her license for a few years. Maybe then she will get the message.
8,
Its SOP to just PASS the older folks, there is NO vision check in this state AFTEr you get your first licence.
so that little OLD lady at 92, that is STILL driving, Never had a vision test in the LAST 70+ years…
Andrew-
how about not speeding, then you won’t have to worry about that little speed camera will you?
There’s no excuse for poor driving or for speeding. ‘I was running late!’ or ‘There was traffic!’ are ridiculous, as both are poor planning on the driver’s part.
I don’t have a problem with speeding tickets or tightening license requirements. I just don’t see why government should benefit financially from traffic violations. Make them revenue neutral.
Also, speeding and red-light cameras should be outlawed. Receiving a ticket in the mail a week or two after the offense is much less of a learning experience than talking to a cop right on the spot. Besides, who is standing as the accuser and how do they verify the accused? Ticketing the registered owner is nothing more than a money grab.
@ Improbus
“What you don’t think you can pass a close book test? I have over a million miles of driving experience, how about you?”
I could care less about the tests. I just don’t want to end up paying for this crap. Then again… Soon I won’t have to pay taxes! 😀
@ Mr. H. Fusion
“Driving is a privilege, not a right.”
Says who?
Not pay taxes? Tell me how, I would really like to know. Also, if driving were a right you wouldn’t have to take a test. QED.
this is why photo radar doesn’t work.. no immediate punishment..
if she nknew she had the first ticket.. she would have slowed down..
but when speeding by parked vans (or garbage cans) on a highway.. can you really hear that “click”
we know how to drive.. bust the people that hit things
Apparently California allows the *legally* blind to drive. You all need to understand the term *legally* blind. We aren’t talking about a person who can’t see anything or only see’s blurrs or fuzzy images. I work with a volunteer at meals on wheels that is completely blind in 1 eye and has to wear coke bottle thick lenses for the other eye and is on Social Security disability for being legally blind. Yet he just renewed his driving license.
ECA is right about the retesting. In many states you can go on for many years without more than a written exam after the first license is issued, even if in the mean time you have been diagnosed as legally blind. My Mom has a friend who is epileptic and on medications. If she has 1 seizuire her Doctor will notify the DMV and she will have her license temporarily held until she is seizure free…..but if she was to be diagnosed as legally blind he dosen’t report that.
Your right Fusion, all states have a minimum standard. But it’s what that minimum is that is the point.
Tall tales do not solve the problem, Joshua. If you are going to claim that some states allow legally blind people to drive you need to cite the applicable statute(s). Since that has not occurred, I stand by my assertion that you are telling a lie.
Hold on, Podesta. Just because someone doesn’t quote statutes at you doesn’t mean they’re lying. How about this — prove that Joshua’s lying. Otherwise, since you have not cited the applicable statute(s), I assume your assertion is a lie.
19, podestra, easy there buddy, it isn’t polite to call a difference in opinion a lie. I checked it out. Joshua might have something there. 20/70 isn’t very good and 20/200 is pretty close to blind.
DMV’s Vision Screening Standards
DMV is authorized to test all applicants’ vision under Vehicle Code §12804.9(a)(1)(E).
Anyone who applies for an original or renewal driver license must meet the department’s visual acuity (vision) screening standard. DMV’s vision screening standard is:
20/40 with both eyes tested together and
20/40 in one eye and
20/70, at least, in the other eye
Minimum Visual Acuity Requirement
If you cannot meet the vision screening standard, you must have a minimum visual acuity in at least one eye better than 20/200 (best corrected). Visual acuity is a person’s ability to see items clearly and sharply and to recognize small detail. You may wear glasses or contact lenses to meet the minimum visual acuity standard but you cannot wear a bioptic telescopic or similar lens. DMV is not allowed to license drivers who do not meet the minimum visual acuity standard. (VC §12805)
http://tinyurl.com/knnyx
I’m flabbergasted.
thanks Mr. Fusion….is that from your state or California? I kept coming up with crackers when I tried to search for statutes…
And sence the STATE gets money IF you can Drive…..
UNLESS you are in an accident, or LET your licence Lapse…And you DONT get a NEW eye exam… You KEEP paying, no matter HOW bad a driver you are…
Licence tags and INSURRANCE….Makes GOOD money.
Don’t they have points in Arizona licenses?
I don’t know about Arizona, so I’ll talk about Florida. They can’t use traffic cameras to write a criminal citation here… the infraction has to be observed by a real live enforcement officer. But they CAN issue civil citations. The fine is the same, but there are no points. It’s probably not as big a deal to ignore them either, although it’s likely not a good idea.
In Arizona; by law, you have to be served with the summons, either by an Officer or a process server. Most of the cities in the Phoenix metro area (including Scottsdale) send the citations First Class mail without even so much as a Return Receipt.
In Scottsdale, I do beleive that it is a revenue source, not a deterent to speeding. The city courts cannot keep up with the citations generated by their Photo Radar program.
If they ever move one of those photo radar contraptions to my neighborhood they better have insurance on it because it wont be in one piece for long. A country boy knows how to take care of such things one way or another.
Its called PAINT the basturd..
ECA, that made no sense. Could you translate that for me?
My grandmother in Kansas is 85. She is required to have her vision rechecked every year in order to keep her license.
If the woman had been pulled over and ticketed by an actual cop for the FIRST speeding violation (or any of them), I think she would have learned to slow down. Any of her later seventy speeding incidents could have resulted in an accident.
Pulling her over immediately is more effective than mailing her a citiation.