4 suspensions in 4 years.
Numerous speeding tickets.
A monthly insurance rate of $450/month, $500 had I continued driving in my own name.
Etc.

Perfect!!:D

Got a speeding ticket about 10 years ago, I think.

Clean otherwise.

Never suspended but higher insurance rates than normal, until recently. Three wrecks (2 my fault). 5 or 6 speeding tickets spread out over 20 years. I finally got the gist of defensive driving a few years ago, no tickets/wrecks since. Admittedly I was a dumb driver. Once again, if I had been diagnosed earlier, my life story would be very different. Much less expensive and traumatic.

ps- Nobody was ever injured as a result of my driving.:) :o

the first few years were pretty expensive! LOL..but, I learnt from that. I hate wasting money ;-)
Clean record for nearly 20 years..no prangs either!

When I was a young man, it was over 4 pages long with tickets and suspensions, never a dwi or dui though I deserved one many times over.
As I aged and quit driving so much at night and the tickets ebbed , I still speed but now it's more in the hours with a fewer # of police on the road.
I't a theory of mine that , for example if you were to drink -catch an early happy hour so that you drive during rush hour -many people =fewer police , same with speeding ,
now drive at 11:00 pm and speed and/or drunk drive few people and many cops.

I had a clean record for over 10 years but just got a ticket recently for speeding....:eek:

honestly it's prefect, has to be driving is my job

Mine will be perfect next year one offense that sticks with ya stupidest thing i ever did cost me jobs part of the reason i'm out of work. One more yr

I caught a couple of speeding tickets here and there it has been years ago though.....been in wrecks in 30-some odd years one my fault the other thiers!

Got a no insurance ticket a couple of years back because I left the newer version of my proof of insurance card on top of my dresser but I was able to take it to DPS and have ticket dismissed!

Knock on wood I have been "clean" for some where in the neighborhood of ten years. I should have gotten a ticket a couple of years ago but the cop was nice and gave me a warning!


I try to do the speed limit even if I am running late because I am basicially a cheap-skate and hate wasting money on tickets that I could have spent on fun stuff like CD's!

My driving record improved greatly after I got sober. Haven't wrecked a car or spun high-speed 360s in the rain, nor have I emerged out of a black-out suddenly heedful of the wooden barriers I was about to drive through into a submerged parkway.

Never was arrested for DUI, but was pulled over while DUI in order to receive other tickets (speeding, running lights, driving wrong way up one way, passengers mooning innocent passersby, etc).

I've been pulled over for speeding a couple of times on my bike in the last few years. But I pull off my helmet to talk motorcycles with the police and they've let me off with reprimands. Salt and pepper hair is good for something.

So, today, my sober wife (who never drank much anyway) who continually complains about my driving (you can tell she is no ADHD extremist), accomplishs a 180 on I-880 north into Oakland by way of Death's Ally, at the start of the rush hour(s). Losing control (oversteering? hydroplaning? just plain wacky driving?) for no apparent reason.

We were struck by only one other vehicle, a van, on our sideways sweep across four lanes of high speed traffic! Across a concrete riverbed chanelling a torrent of ten thousand cars per hour. And ground into the sound wall with such preposterous gentleness that the airbags failed to errupt.

I'm happy and grateful that none of us were injured.

But, really, had I done this, at least I would have a handy excuse, ADHD or something just like it.

My wife, however . . . she's perfectly normal!

wow Stan, I am glad no-one was hurt :-) And very glad your driving habits have improved so much LOL

The silliest thing I did was enter a round-a-bout and kept going around and around, most happily until i ran out of petrol :-)
I used to get a LOT of speeding tickets when I was 17-20

My driving record is pretty good - I think I have one speeding ticket. A month or so ago I was stopped as I was racing to get to class (late as usual :rolleyes: ), but the nice (and rather cute :o ) police man let me off with a warning. Whew!

But man-oh-man if there was such thing as a record for parking tickets, I would be in BIG trouble. I just never seem to have enough change on me for the meter, and I'm usually late, and don't have time to go and get some...so especially at my university, I have had WAYYYY too many parking tickets. (Cost me an absolute fortune when my car was towed last month, and in order to get my car out, I had to pay all my tickets :faint: :faint: ).

I've only been caught speeding once. :)

I have no accidents involving other cars (hitting large animals (deer) though, quite a bit).

Therefore my record is fairly clean.

I had one speeding ticket back in college for going 6 MPH over the speed limit:rolleyes: (I was actualy pretty careful to follow the speed limits). I've had two accidents -- only one of which was my fault.

Scattered

Well this sample isn't pure. We have combo and classic adhders who are very different people from the pure inattentive ADHDers. They are like polar opposites.

I'm inattentive and have never had an accident although a few tickets in my 20's.

We have combo and classic adhders who are very different people from the pure inattentive ADHDers

I haven't asked for "trouble" in a while guess it is time-lol

Okay I may be misunderstanding so please clarify.....

Are you suggesting the type of ADD may affect driving record?

Specifically are you saying that being impulsive ADD = more tickets and wrecks?

Btw……

Pure what?

While I am "asking for it" might as well ask for it all.

I have had a ticket going 95 once on he i.s. and i cussed out the cop that was before i was medicated (LOL) but i have avoided alot of wrecks (knock on wood)

Lets see... 3-4 accident_ 2-3 my fault, depending if you count as not on driving record or not.... bumped into a bunch of things going really slow backing up and no damage there. 1 ticket for "neglegent driving" that got reduced to a speeding ticket in court... 1 warning for speeding. Im sever AD/HD combined- been dx since i was 4 (found out from my parents this weekend, i thought since i was 10, never had something done until i was 10 anyway)

haven't had a ticket in a really long time...maybe 10 years. luck had a lot to do with it...and my 20/10 vision. there was a period where I would hit 85-90MPH pretty much everyday. oddly, roadracing motorcycles kinda cured me of driving fast on the street.

I still dream of getting a speeding ticket on my bicycle someday.:D

Well.... I failed my driving license test the first time because I almost got hit by a car. My fault totally because I wasn't paying attention.

My record is currently clean
Have never had a speeding ticket, had 3 accidents, got tickets for 2 but they weren't my fault, 1 was dismissed the other I had to pay for :(

I haven't asked for "trouble" in a while guess it is time-lol

Okay I may be misunderstanding so please clarify.....

Are you suggesting the type of ADD may affect driving record?

Specifically are you saying that being impulsive ADD = more tickets and wrecks?

Btw……

Pure what?

While I am "asking for it" might as well ask for it all.

Those are great questions. :)

Yes, the ADHD hyper and combo would have much worse driving records in comparison to pure inattentive ADHDers. That is mho but I'm pretty sure it would be backed up by the literature. I believe I have read that several times. A pure inattentive ADHDer is someone who always was inattentive from childhood and didn't "become one" because they got the diagnosis when they were older and some of their hyper symptoms disappeared.

Well everybody seems to do better from me, since I did not get my driving licence yet-I tried last summer, but I have high driving anxiety which makes me even worse...
I don't think I could get a speeding ticket if I keep it like this-I can only drive at 15mph yet...

4 suspensions in 4 years.
Numerous speeding tickets.
A monthly insurance rate of $450/month, $500 had I continued driving in my own name.
Etc.
I'm a 31-year old guy and I've "only" had two speeding tickets in the last four years. That's actually amazing for me. Between the ages of 16 and 25, I had my license suspended three times for accumulating too many points from the 22 or so tickets I got in that 10 year period. For a few years, my car insurance was more than my car payment. That was rough.

I've noticed that I pay more attention to my speed and don't drive as aggressively since I've been medicated.