Taking a road trip home for the holidays this year? Be sure to go easy on the gas pedal, particularly if your travels take you up or down the East Coast. According to stats from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the I-95 corridor between the southeast and New England includes five of the 10 U.S. states carrying the highest fines for speeding–Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, Maryland and New Hampshire. All hit up speeders for a maximum of $500 or more for a first offense.

The Most Expensive States For Speeding Tickets 2007

What happens when qualified engineers using standard practices assert that an intersection near a school doesn’t require a stop sign?  Residents cheer leading for the stop sign think of other ways to control traffic.  But this raises the question: why are people everywhere so obsessed with trying to erect stop signs where they don’t belong?

Study puts stop on stop signs