I would think that it would be waived.

The law should be appealed.

First of all it is much much too excessive. You can't justify such high fines.

Also there is discrimination, not all parties are treated equally.

Those who are residents will pay much higher fees, this is hardly fair. Change "resident" to white, homeowner, republican, democrat, etc and you'd have a huge fight.

Also, there is the problem that is inherent in traffic tickets in that it is up to the cop to issue the ticket or a warning. This again is incredibly unfair and discriminatory. What criteria does the cop use? Too often the cop will let someone go for reasons that have nothing to do with safety or reason for speeding.

You also have the problem, again inherent in speeding tickets in that there is no proof. There is the word of the cop and that's it. Seems to me a valid argument could be made that with fines of $1000 and more there is an incentive for the state to lie about your speeding.

I live in Virginia. They are being pretty forceful with these new laws. The sad part is that they don't apply to residents of other states just passing through. Tourists get normal tickets, while Virginians get slapped with fines of up to $3000, possibly multiplied over several years.

I feel for her situation, but by speeding, she puts herself, her child, and other drivers in danger.

But yeah, the fines are a little high for speeding.

I don't speed, so I can't sympathize too much--but I agree that the fines aren't realistic. Creating a financial hardship for someone because of a speeding ticket is absurd.

Which is potentially more harmful for the child?

a) Speeding but at a speed which is certainly controllable

or

b) giving birth in a car without a doctor, sanitation, etc

"She and her husband, Jeff, a massage therapist, barely go out and are living basically week-to-week to support 17-month-old Madison and infant Alessandra, born July 19, she said" before leaving to speed through some other, and far less important, parent's kid's school zone.

I assume that, being so controversial, it was well publicized when it went into effect. Until (and if) it's deemed unconstitutional, these people broke the law and were fined accordingly. Whining about it after the fact is a waste of breath. You broke the friggin' law! Deal with it and be glad it's a hit in your pocket book rather than the death of some innocent.

We vilify Britney for driving with a child in her lap, some even calling for her to lose custody, but get angry when a pregnant woman is heavily fined for speeding? Pfft.

Although they were speeding, they were not going so fast as to be a danger or even all that risky. 99% of people speed from time to time. Heck, so many people speed that going the speed limit is sometimes dangerous because everyone else is zipping by.

Their speeding endangered no one whatsoever.

There are very, very few women who would be in any danger of having their baby in the car just because they didn't drive fast enough to the hospital. Unfortunately for us, labor just isn't that fast in 95% of cases.
I don't even know what she was thinking driving herself to the hospital with labor pains. That in itself is reckless driving. If the contractions were bad enough she felt she had to do 22 over, then she should not have gotten behind the wheel- a good contraction at that point makes it all but impossible to pay attention to anything else.
And if the pains weren't that severe yet, there was no reason to speed.

A 35 mph zone is uaually a residential area, and doing 57 through a neighborhood is dangerous, in my opinion. Geeze, especially if you're in labor.

I've never seen that stat. Link, please.
I missed that, too. Video, please.