Caught On Camera, Speeding In Upstate New York?

As of Saturday March 1, 2024, the City of Schenectady, New York has lowered the city speed limit from 35 to 25. The goal is to improve pedestrian safety, reduce accidents and minimize the risk of serious car accidents in town. The city of Albany, as reported by WQBK, made the same adjustment in December.

Will this speed reduction help? Here are some speeders caught on camera in 2024, speeding at 40mph or more on this 25mph residential road in Schenectady.

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According to Solomon Law Group, a car accident at 40mph can cause devastating, if not fatal, injuries if you aren't wearing a seatbelt. Even if you are wearing your seatbelt a crash at 40mph is enough to snap your femur bone.

In the pictures featured below, It appears that very few drivers actually obey the speed limit as it is posted. You will see vehicles traveling between 15mph to 30mph OVER the speed limit.

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This particular road in Schenectady County, NY, is a very busy yet residential road. The speed limit is marked between 25mph and 30mph, depending on the curves and corners you encounter. Were you caught going well over the speed limit?

Each of the vehicles below was captured traveling at least 10mph over the speed limit. Some of these vehicles were witnessed traveling between 15mph and 25mph over the limit. Travel at these speeds over the limit could cost you 4-6 points on your drivers license. SLOW DOWN!

Caught Speeding In New York

Do Radar Speed Signs actually help to slow the speed of drivers? Not for these New York drivers. Each of the following vehicles were spotted going between 10mph to 15mph over the speed limit on a residential street in the Capital Region of New York.

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This Is How Many Driver's License Points Speeding Costs In New York

Here's how many points speeding and other tickets will add to your driver's license.

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LOOK: See how much gasoline cost the year you started driving

To find out more about how has the price of gas changed throughout the years, Stacker ran the numbers on the cost of a gallon of gasoline for each of the last 84 years. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (released in April 2020), we analyzed the average price for a gallon of unleaded regular gasoline from 1976 to 2020 along with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for unleaded regular gasoline from 1937 to 1976, including the absolute and inflation-adjusted prices for each year.

Read on to explore the cost of gas over time and rediscover just how much a gallon was when you first started driving.

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Source: Were You Caught On Camera, Speeding In New York’s Capital Region?