Hilarious history of first-ever traffic jail sentence in 1904 – as driver locked behind bars for reaching ‘sprint’ speed

SPEEDING may have a different meaning today than it did at the automobile's genesis, but fines and punishments for it still existed. What modern Americans will find most shocking about the nation's first jail sentence for speeding is the offending driver's shockingly slow pace. Rhode Island judge Darius Baker handed down the nation's first jail...

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