You can imagine how excited I got when I read this article in today’s Baltimore Sun. It’s about a study undertaken by a couple of physicians, Saranath Lawpoolsri and Jingyi Li, at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Anything that confirms my opinion of Maryland drivers as being pretty fucking awful (second only to New Jersey and Pennsylvania drivers). Anyway …
It turns out that we’re a rather thickheaded lot. You can give us speeding citations and we just go out and earn more - as if they were merit badges.
That’s what Lawpoolsri and Li concluded after conducting a study of how Maryland drivers respond to the most basic form of traffic law enforcement. Far from being chastened by a speeding citation, Maryland drivers who were so honored had more than twice the risk of other drivers of receiving yet another speeding ticket during the subsequent 12 months.
