“Super Speeders” on the Loose
Plenty of us do it, a lot of us get a kick out of it, and perhaps quite a number of us get away with it. Regardless of intent, speeding can be dangerous — emphasis on can.
However, there’s always the argument about the right place and the right time. School zones aren’t one of them, and a densely populated city isn’t either. New York City Open Data has data that Transportation Alternatives picked up, which then published a heat map report of the top 10 “Super Speeders” in the state, all caught on speed cameras, FOX5 New York reports.
Audi
About that Audi A6 Driver
The most frequent offender drives around in a 2023 Audi A6, with the driver accumulating more than 1,000 speeding tickets thanks to NYC’s speed camera system. It’s important to note that this long string of tickets has been going on since mid-2023. Perhaps someone is enjoying their car a little too much in the Brooklyn area?
Sixty-three thousand US Dollars – that’s how much the super speeder of an Audi A6 driver has paid in fines since mid-2023. To be exact, the total running cost at this time is $63,744.23. Think about it: whoever is driving this car has accumulated enough tickets to (almost) buy a new sixth-generation Audi A6, which at the time of writing starts in the ballpark of around $64,000 USD.
During the Audi A6 driver’s 2025 run, they averaged a total of 259 school zone speed camera tickets, including 38 at Ocean Parkway and Ocean Court. He has paid off more than 60,000 USD in fines.
Legend has it that the same vehicle is still racking up tickets as we speak, and on top of that, the same vehicle also topped New York State’s list of super speeders back in 2024 as well. If this continues, will we have a three-peat super-speeder dynasty of sorts?
What About the Others?
According to the report, the other super speeders on the list have largely paid off their fines; however, many have paid little to none. Nine of the ten speeders are also driving cars purchased in the last five years, which makes them pretty much brand-new. A good chunk of them are also premium vehicles from Audi (as mentioned), Mercedes, BMW, and Lexus.
If you want to know who’s second on the list, it’s a 2017 Lexus IS driver who paid off $3,309.91 USD in fines and owes $19,678.97 USD. That’s a distant second to the number one super speeder in all of New York.
Jokes Aside
Automation allows tickets to be doled out quickly; however, the cameras don’t appear to be affecting any of the top 10 super speeders. The problem got so bad that transportation advocacy groups like Transportation Alternatives and Families for Safe Streets outed these cars with plate numbers to boot. In fact, the data that we’re seeing came from them with the headings: “New York’s Top 10 Super Speeders & the Locations Where They Most Frequently Terrorize New Yorkers,” and “Like Shooting a Gun Into a Crowd.”
From the data, “a driver with 44 speed camera tickets is 725 times more likely to kill or seriously injure a fellow New Yorker,” said Philip Miatkowski, the Senior Director of Research and Policy at Transportation Alternatives. “Some of these drivers have hundreds more than that—it’s just a matter of time before one of New York’s most reckless drivers kill someone.”
The problem has apparently gotten so bad that a bill is to be passed in the state to stop these repeat offenders in their tracks. The advocacy groups are 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’s speed to within 5 miles per hour of the posted speed limit.
Solutions, Anyone?
Even if the top 10 super speeders get stopped, none of the data presented links their vehicles to specific crashes, injuries, or fatalities. It’s not exactly connected. In a similar story, the Super Speeder Law has also nailed a Florida woman for driving over the limit, prompting her to beg for mercy.
Debates aside, this piece of data also reveals other telling points, like how these speeding tickets are doing almost nothing to curb the behavior. According to the sources, these drivers are mostly ignoring the tickets or paying them off as if they were a running expense. Pleasure doing business, I guess?
