Hank Silverberg, wtop.com

SPRINGFIELD, Va – Speeders in Virginia have helped the state rake in $101 million in ticket fines, according to the Virginia Auditor of Public Accounts.

There was a total of $238 million in traffic fines for all infractions.

Virginia has no speed cameras, so all the tickets were written by either state troopers or one of the 521 local police agencies across the state.

AAA says $64.8 million, or two-thirds of the tickets for speeding, were generated by local governments.

A spokeswoman for the state police says they follow a strict state code on speeding tickets. But the auto club says that does not apply to local governments. AAA points to a 2-mile stretch along Interstate 295 southeast of Richmond where the city of Hopewell handed out an average of 1,000 speeding tickets a month, generating about $150,000 a month.

State police cited 197,616 motorists for speeding across the state in 2010. AAA says that’s about 40 percent of the speeding tickets issued statewide.

Virginia’s General Assembly has not approved requests by localities to install speed cameras.

In the District of Columbia, which does have speed cameras, AAA says 553,753 drivers received speeding tickets in 2010, generating $43.1 million in revenue.

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