One Of New York’s Worst Speeders Racked Up Over 1,000 Tickets And Still Drives
A new report highlights repeat speeders in New York, but also exposes gaps in enforcement
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by Stephen Rivers
Ten New York drivers racked up hundreds of school-zone tickets.
Several owe more than $10,000 in fines and still appear to drive.
The report highlights gaps as lawmakers push speed limiters.
Speeding is nothing new. Plenty of us do it, but location and environment matter. In New York, where streets are tightly packed with pedestrians, safety concerns ramp up. That didn’t stop several drivers there from racking up five-figure speed camera fines. Plenty of them are still on the road, and a few are seemingly ignoring their tickets altogether. Based on a new report, it seems the state might be largely ignoring them, too.
Transportation advocacy groups, Transportation Alternatives and Families for Safe Streets recently released data highlighting what they call the state’s worst “super speeders.” According to the report, the 10 drivers with the most school-zone speed camera violations in New York State averaged 179 tickets each in 2025, with the most prolific offender receiving 259.
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That driver, behind the wheel of a 2023 Audi A6, reportedly accumulated more than 1,000 speed-camera tickets since mid-2023. Despite paying more than $63,000 in fines, the car continues to rack up violations in Brooklyn. The report also notes that the same vehicle topped the state’s list of super speeders in 2024, meaning it has held the dubious distinction for two consecutive years. Others appear less willing, or able, to pay.
One 2017 Lexus IS on the list owes nearly $20,000, while a 2022 Mercedes-Benz GLE-Class has more than $23,000 in unpaid fines after receiving 177 tickets in 2025. A 2024 Honda Passport owes nearly $31,000. Several vehicles in the report show little or no payment history despite thousands of dollars in penalties.
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In other words, while automated enforcement can generate tickets quickly, it’s less clear how effectively the system deals with repeat offenders. Just based on the available data, it appears that the cameras are doing little to nothing to stop this behavior.
Digging Deeper
Advocates say these drivers represent a major public safety risk. They point out that more than 2.5 million New Yorkers live within a five-minute walk of intersections where the top offenders were caught speeding. The group is pushing lawmakers to pass the “Stop Super Speeders” bill, which would require drivers who receive 16 or more speed-camera violations in a year to install a device that limits their vehicle to within 5 mph of the posted speed limit.
While that sounds like a reasonable measure, there are caveats to consider. While the drivers listed accumulated hundreds of violations, the data does not link them to specific crashes, injuries, or fatalities. That doesn’t mean speeding isn’t dangerous. It unquestionably increases crash severity, but the headline comparison from advocates describing the behavior as “like shooting a gun into a crowd” arguably stretches the analogy.
Why Tickets Aren’t Working
What’s not up for debate is something else entirely: enforcement gaps. We told you about this same sort of situation last year, and guess what, the same Audi driver was the leading offender back then. Both then and now, they’ve paid tens of thousands of dollars and continued right along like speeding in a school zone is no big deal. The tickets appear to simply be the cost of doing business so to speak.
Still, several others from the list appear to be simply ignoring their tickets altogether. Last year we concluded that for now, it appears that ‘super speeders’ can keep disregarding the rules without threat to their ability to drive. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
