An 80 year old Omaha man says he will not pay a $100 speeding ticket in Iowa because he was caught on a camera he didn't see and not clocked by an actual officer.
Fred Lowry was caught going 11 miles over the speed limit by one of two cameras in an I-29 construction zone. In addition to the $100 citation, there's an extra $35 tacked on for his payment being late.
Lowry tells WOWT-Channel 6 he won’t be driving to Sioux City to face a judge or pay the fine. The retired trucker says a ticket should be issued by an officer face-to-face, not through a camera.
“I want the damn thing repealed,” Lowry says. The Iowa Supreme Court has upheld the photo citations. “I’m not paying it. They can come get me and throw me in jail. I’m 80 years old and I don’t give a damn,” Lowry says.
For 57 years, Lowry drove more than a million miles. He says speeding on camera doesn’t give the whole picture of him as a safe driver.
More than a half-million cars a month go through the monitored construction zone in Sioux City and it averages only one speed-related crash a month. WOWT-Channel 6 reports after several years, the road construction project is almost done and within two weeks the cameras should be removed.
(Photo: 6 News)