COLORADO SPRINGS DRIVING LAWS

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• 10.5.104: EXCEEDING POSTED SPEED LIMIT
• One to four (4) miles per hour over the posted speed limit
• Five (5) to nine (9) miles per hour over the posted speed limit
• Ten (10) to nineteen (19) miles per hour over the maximum posted speed limit.
• Twenty (20) to thirty nine (39) miles per hour over the posted limit.

Strict Liability: traffic offenses are strict liability crimes. This means that one’s intent is irrelevant. A person’s lack of intent to commit a particular offense is not a defense to a strict liability violation. All that matters is that the elements (eg: "defendant drove a vehicle Five (5) to nine (9) miles per hour over the posted speed limit" in Colorado Springs) occurred.

Radar: With a radar speeding ticket the only issue for the court to decide is the speed of the vehicle. The fact that one did not intend to speed, had a broken speedometer, or oversized tires, is not a defense to speeding. Again, speeding is a strict liability offense.

Speeding can cause a number of things to happen from experiencing adrenaline to getting your car impounded or potential cause of serious injury to yourself or someone else. Speeding is one of many the leading causes of death in the state of colorado.

From 2004 to 2011, rates of motor vehicle crash deaths among 15- to 19-year-olds in Colorado dropped more than 67 percent. However, in 2012, Colorado experienced a 10 percent rise in teen fatalities from 2011.

Inexperience was the contributing factor to approximately 12 percent of all teen crashes in 2011 in Colorado. This percentage remained the same whether there was an injury and fatality or not.
Teen drivers represent nearly 6% of licensed Colorado drivers, but they account for more than 11% of all traffic deaths in the state.

TRAFFIC DEATHS, BY PERSON TYPE AND VEHICLE TYPE YEAR 2010

Driver 220
Passenger 98
Motorcyclists 82
Pedestrian 36
Pedalcyclist 8
Unknown 4

This concludes my class...

Please practice much pre caution when driving for it could affect your life or someone else's life fatally.
Thank you for your time.