For anyone planning a cross-country trip, the checklist of necessities typically includes the obvious: credit cards, good tread on the tires, family activities to while away the hours, camera, maps and so forth. For many drivers, the National Motorists Association ("NMA") may have just added a vital component to the mix: a comprehensive and ranked listing of all the states that assesses a driver's relative risk of being nabbed for speeding anywhere in the country.
The NMA is just the organization for compiling this data, since it is a group ardently devoted to drivers' rights and just as opposed to government attempts to curtail them. The NMA website describes the organization as "a motorists' rights group that has been helping drivers fight traffic tickets for over 25 years."
The NMA reached its conclusions regarding driver-friendly and driver-averse states by posing a series of questions including the following: What is the state's highway speed limit? Does it allow radar detectors? Does it require that motorcyclists wear helmets? Does it allow phone use while driving?
The results are in, and they show that drivers who love to hit the road might want to reconsider a potential vacation in Florida and head to Wyoming instead. The NMA ranks the former state as the worst state in the country for drivers who are a little heavy on the throttle, with the latter being extremely accommodating.
Here are the five worst states for speeders, in NMA's ranked order: Florida, Georgia, Nevada (cited as a bit of surprise, given its wide-open terrain), Texas and Alabama. If you like seeing the scenery fly by, consider Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska and Kentucky.
Related Resource: thecarconnection.com "The Top 5 States for Speeders" July 1, 2010
