A 96 year old man should not have to drive his disabled son to his appointments, and there are no circumstances in which it is ok to speed through a school zone.
I completely get not fining him, but the case should not have been dismissed and the judge should have recommended some kind of service or help that could take his son to his appointments so this very elderly man is not at risk of killing children with his car.
Children deserve the same opportunity to live to 96 that this guy had.
Speed limit in school zones (and usually only in place during like 7-8 am and 2-3 pm) is 20mph so if this guy was going 25 and got a douchebag cop I can see why it was dismissed
If he was going 35-40 then yeesh yeah that’s not a good look
There is a reason for this speed limit. A random child that comes running on the street, you need to be able to have the reaction time to break. Especially if you are 96 years old, your timing will be so late that you will most likely won't break at all when you are speeding. 25 in a 20 is a 25% increase.
100% agree. I get that he's "doing the wrong thing for the right reasons", but speeding through an active school zone with the reflexes of a 90 year old is a recipe for disaster.
Are we sure those services exist in wherever these people are from?
edit: man people get a pitchfork and they want to use it all the time. I'm not saying to dismiss the guy, I'm saying there are probably deeper issues at play here.
We’ll never know for a fact because the judge didn’t even try, but yes, in most places in the US, there are many services for exactly this kind of thing. There are usually city services, private services, community services, etc.
I live in a city without any public transport whatsoever, and even we have a number of services that will transport disabled people to wherever they need to go, they would transport this man’s son and him without him having to drive.
As someone who uses services for the disabled, while there is great stuff out there it always falls short. It’s nearly all geared to the minimum requirement and anything more isn’t there. It’s all designed for survival and little more - the disabled deserve more than survival, we should help them thrive
Whether or not there was available public transportation, there is zero reason why this guy needed to be speeding through a school zone. Leave five minutes earlier.
I'm not disagreeing but I'd honestly feel like disabled services are going to be safer and more reliable than your 96 year old parent.
Also, I'm not sure if his son just needed blood work, but anytime I've had to do labs the doctor puts in a request and I can go at any time. You don't need to ever rush there like you do with a regular appointment.
We’ll never know for a fact because the judge didn’t even try,
I imagine the judge probably knows that even if there is a system, it is entirely overloaded like everything else in America that has to do with helping people instead of profit.
I'd still argue that whether the services exist or not, we probably shouldn't have a 96 year old man speed through a school zone. That sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Idk if the judge is senile or or acting for the cameras, but I don't think you should be allowed to summarily dismiss a case for no good reason if there is merit to it.
Why did I have to scroll so far to see this comment? I want to know how fast he was going. He claims it "wasn't that fast," but are we just going to believe him? What did the cop clock his speed at? That's pertinent information the judge seems to ignore here
He should not be driving. Throwing the ticket away will make it harder to legally take his license. I guess they are waiting for him to run over a kid before they do anything about it.
Yeah, this kind of pisses me off. Just because his son has a health condition doesn't mean everyone else between them and this supposed doctor's office has to be at risk.
TBF typical school zone speed limits are like 25 MPH so he probably was going 30 MPh which isn’t that fast and it probably was when the kids were in school anyway so it’s not like he or anyone was in danger including himself
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u/Kurovi_dev Feb 27 '25
A 96 year old man should not have to drive his disabled son to his appointments, and there are no circumstances in which it is ok to speed through a school zone.
I completely get not fining him, but the case should not have been dismissed and the judge should have recommended some kind of service or help that could take his son to his appointments so this very elderly man is not at risk of killing children with his car.
Children deserve the same opportunity to live to 96 that this guy had.
Nothing about this is amazing, it’s sad.