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Despite warnings, Virginia rarely enforces speeding from above

By Steve Contorno
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Despite warnings, Virginia rarely enforces speeding from above

Large signs lining Virginia’s highways ominously warn drivers that someone up in the sky could be watching them speed. But that’s almost never the case.

The aircraft used by Virginia State Police to catch speedsters on interstates were deployed only five times since 2008 and just once in all of 2011. None of those speed checks in the last three years were in Northern Virginia.

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