I was in licking county ohio last night leaving newark for columbus (all this in ohio btw)
it's a 55 on rte 16 and i thought i was going around 65, as i really had to go to the bathroom, and there was a gas station at the next exit.
i notice a car tailgating me so i looked at the mirror, and see crown vic lights... looked up at the top and it's not a cab.
i slowed down to 55 but once the shoulder widened again on go the red and blues. boo. I signaled, pulled right over, stopped and hit the flashers. I turned on my dome light and both the map lights, rolled the window down and put my hands flat on the wheel
he asked if there was a reason why i was going at such a high rate of speed, i said i had to go to the bathroom and had forgotten that this was a 55 (similar stretch in columbus is 65, actually). he took my info and asked if i'd had another moving violation in 12 months, i said yeah but i wasnt sure if it had been 12 months or not yet. he asked a few other things, whose car it was, my age, i figure that was to see if i would be nervous sounding in case my trunk was full of corpses or i was drunk, but it wasnt a problem.
after he was done, i got a nice "traffic friendly warning", asked to slow down, and directions to the gas station off the next exit.
I asked how fast I was going and he said about 70.
So apparently I was going 15 over and got just a warning. I think my conduct won that, I have tinted windows so I knew i ought to turn all my interior lights on and not freak out at him.
Pretty nifty I thought. The last ticket I got, i went a few feet on the shoulder in order to get to the next lane to get to my exit (it was a sort of weave lane), and that was from a rather angry ohio state trooper.
the Licking County Sheriff was very nice, he even told me to have a nice night. aw.
they must've been pulling people over left and right too since I saw two more on the other side of the highway, heh.
I suppose this just proves that you're likely to get treated better if you're pleasant and make it as obvious as possible that it'll be a safe, routine traffic stop.