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LOS ANGELES -- If you live in the Southland, chances are some part of your day is spent on a freeway -- maybe you have even gotten a speeding ticket. Now, NBC4 reveals the stretches of freeway where the most number of tickets have been issued.
The California Highway Patrol has heard it all. They've heard excuses ranging from "my wife is pregnant" to "the accelerator is stuck" to "I am running out of gas."
It seems many folks in the Southland are feeling the need for speed and if the first four months of this year are any indication, Californians are on the road to a record number of speeding tickets.
The other thing officers are seeing more of is triple digit speeders -- people traveling over 100 miles per hour.
On the night NBC4 rode along with the CHP, a young driver was stopped for driving 117 miles an hour. Over the past decade, citations for driving over 100 have tripled and in some areas even quadrupled.
So where in the Southland are the most tickets being written? NBC4 looked at the data for the first four months of this year and found that in Orange County the most ticketed freeway is Interstate 5, specifically the seven-mile stretch between San Juan Capistrano and Mission Viejo, where over 3,500 hundred tickets have been written.
In Riverside County, the number one ticket spot -- where over 1,300 tickets have been written -- is the otherwise lonely stretch on the 10 freeway between Messa Drive and the Arizona state line.
In Los Angeles County we've got a top five list:
(5) Interstate 210 in Pasadena, traveling eastbound between Mountain Street and Sierra Madre Villa, with almost 2,000 tickets.
(4) Interstate 405, between the Lawndale overpass and La Tijera Boulevard, where just over 2,000 tickets have been written.
(3) Interstate 710, between Long Beach and Compton, where almost 2,200 people have been cited for speeding.
(2) Interstate 10, in the four miles between the Via Verde under crossing and Dudley Street in Pomona, where over 2,300 tickets have been issued.
(1) The five-mile stretch of I-10 starting in West Covina at Vincent Avenue and ending at Via Verde -- where almost 2,500 tickets were issued in only four months.
If you see the flashing lights, the CHP has some advice for you.
"First thing you need to do is, be courteous. We are not out here to write a million speeding tickets and set a record, we are out there doing our job and trying to enforce the rules of the road," said Officer Rusty Moore.
NUMBER ONE SPOT IN ORANGE COUNTY
Orange County
Between San Juan Capistrano (Junction State 1) - Mission Viejo (northbound on Avery Pkwy
NUMBER ONE CITATION SPOT IN RIVERSIDE COUNTY
RIVERSIDE COUNTY
10 FREEWAY
Between MESSA DRIVE and the ARIZONA STATE LINE
TEN MOST TICKETED STRETCHES OF FREEWAY IN LOS ANGELES
#10
605 freeway
Between JCT 5 and JCT 60/605
#9
5 freeway
Between Templin Hwy and Fr. Vista Del Lago
# 8
10 Freeway
Baldwin Park (rt 605) to W Covina (Vincent Ave)
#7
210 Freeway
Fruit Street to LA/San Bernardino County Line
#6
210 Freeway
San Dimas between Raging Waters and Fruit St
#5
210 FREEWAY
In Pasadena between MOUNTAIN STREET AND SIERRA MADRE VILLAGE
#4
405
In Hawthorne (LAWNDALE OVERPASS) to LA (LA TIJERA BOULEVARD )
#3
LA COUNTY
710 FREEWAY
LONGBEACH (carson strett) AND COMPTON (atlantic ave)
# 2
LA COUNTY
10
VIA VERDE UNDERCROSSING to Pamona ( DUDLEY ST )
# 1
LA COUNTY
10
West Covina (VINCENT AVE) to - VIA VERDE
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Source:
http://www.nbc4.tv/team4reports/2217444/detail.html 
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