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SPEEDING IN MINNESOTA
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We analyzed 10,000
Speeding tickets issued by month on Minnesota highways
224,915 speeding
tickets. See what
8,000
Dec. 31, 2013 June 18, 2017
A glitch in
Number of tickets written
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Tickets spike
after Patrol
shifts direction
Citations up 80 percent over 3 years ago
People are getting more not belted in.
speeding tickets in Minneso- As an organization that
ta a lot more. stands for traffic safety, we
State Patrol troopers wrote need to be making a differ-
44,772 tickets in 2014, or one ence in those four areas,
for every 122 residents of the Langer said. (The data the
state. Just two years later, Pioneer Press obtained from
the number of State Patrol the State Patrol includes
tickets had increased by only speeding violations.)
JEAN PIERI / PIONEER PRESS
more than 80 percent to The Patrol doesnt have
State Trooper Jack Tiegs talks to a driver he stopped for speeding Wednesday in St. Paul. He issued the driver a warning.
81,476. Thats one ticket for quotas, so it hasnt ordered
every 68 Minnesota resi- troopers to write more tick-
dents. ets. But it has made speed sense that he and his col- that number over 500 troop- tend to speed in the summer, sons. One is that icy roads
Col. Matt Langer, the chief enforcement a bigger priori- leagues are writing dramati- ers, the number starts to a function, I think, of Minne- often cause drivers to slow
of the State Patrol, says the ty. So troopers out on patrol cally more tickets but said snowball. sota climate. The highway down of their own volition.
increase in tickets is no acci- might focus on speeders its possible that small Aside from the year-over- patrol also often gets federal Additionally, troopers are
dent. In early 2015, the Patrol instead of other potential changes have added up. year increase, tickets follow grants to fund speeding busier responding to snow-
made a conscious decision to violations. Maybe Im doing a little bit seasonal patterns. They enforcement in peak sum- related crashes and arent as
focus more on speeding, Trooper Jack Tiegs, a 10- more, maybe my partners peak every summer and hit a mer months such as July. available to work the speed
along with distracted and year veteran of the State are doing a little bit more, low every winter. Winter, meanwhile, sees gun.
impaired driving and drivers Patrol, doesnt have any Tiegs said. You multiply Langer said more people fewer tickets for two rea-
For drivers wanting to test the limit, its best to stop at 10 over
A rule of thumb for many The median speeding ticket
How fast are Minnesota highway speeders going? drivers is thats its safe at
least for speeding tickets
in the last three years is for
16 mph over. But the most
30% Dec. 31, 2013-June 18, 2017 to go 5 mph over the limit, common ticket was 12 mph
and often safe to go as much over around 25 percent of
as 10 mph over. all the tickets written in the
At least on Minnesota high- past three years. Langer said
12 mph over limit ways, thats almost entirely he doesnt know why thats
true. Out of more than so common.
220,000 tickets the State These statistics reflect
Patrol has written since 2013, what speed drivers were cit-
only 37 were for less than 5 ed for driving which is
Percent of speeding tickets
20% mph over the limit. Tickets sometimes lower than how
for speeders going between 5 fast they actually were going.
and 10 mph over were more Troopers have discretion to
common, but still rare: near- cut drivers a break, writing
ly 97 percent of all ticketed them a warning or citing
drivers were going faster them for a slower speed than
than 10 mph. they were actually going.
Its so unfortunately abun- Tiegs did just that earlier
dantly easy to find drivers this month, when he clocked
10% that are traveling 15, 20, 25 a St. Paul driver going 77
miles over the speed limit, mph in a 60 mph zone on
(troopers) are not running Interstate 35E north of down-
out of work finding those town. The man received a
egregious violations, said ticket for going 9 mph over
Col. Matt Langer, chief of the the limit.
State Patrol. If I stop you and youve got
Trooper Jack Tiegs said he no violations and this is the
often sets his threshold for first time youve been
speeders at 15 mph over. Hes stopped for speeding part
5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 less generous on rural inter- of our job is education. So
states where the limit hits 70 should I give you a ticket the
Source: Minnesota State Patrol Miles per hour over the posted speed limit mph. I go to 10 miles an first time out? Tiegs said.
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hour (there), because 80 Attitude and demeanor is a
miles an hour is very fast, factor. The speed youre driv-
Tiegs said. ing is a factor.
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and in a hurry, so he was himself as an officer with the Light
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speeding as he drove south on Once hes identified a likely State Patrol and asks for
Interstate 35E. Unfortunately speeder, Tiegs turns on his license and proof of insur- $ 97
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an right where the speed limit the vehicle approaches his stop and they can be nervous,
dropped from 70 mph to 60. stationary position. but Im trying to be cordial,
The veteran state trooper If that initial reading con- Tiegs said.
clocked Conlin at 77 mph, firms the speeding, Tiegs uses Hes also watching how cor-
turned out of the median and
pulled the St. Paul man over
onto a straight stretch of
his patrol cars powerful accel-
eration to roar out of the
median and into traffic. There,
dial the stopped driver is.
As troopers we get a lot of
discretion, especially with
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body, said Tiegs. People only pening in the car. He looks in be punitive. Its to get drivers
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