{"id":1897049,"date":"2026-04-22T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1897049"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:25:00","slug":"dc-allows-audi-q5-to-rack-up-260000-in-unpaid-tickets-before-finally-towing-it-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1897049","title":{"rendered":"DC Allows Audi Q5 To Rack Up $260,000 In Unpaid Tickets Before Finally Towing It Away"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Remember that one time you got a traffic ticket<\/a> and had the intrusive thought of, “What would actually happen if I just… never paid this?” Well, if you’re an Audi driver in Washington, D.C., apparently the answer is “not a whole lot for quite a long time.”<\/p>\n

DC police finally impounded a black, second-gen Q5<\/a> last Wednesday after it accumulated a total of 893 unpaid tickets, equaling fines of more than $260,000\u2014$262,204 to be precise, according to a license plate search done by WCNC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The outlet reports that 29 tickets were issued in just the past two months, all of which were for speeding between 11 and 20 mph over the limit. On X<\/a>, the DCPD posted two pictures of the vehicle getting towed along with a statement, “Repeated disregard of traffic law is unacceptable. We’ll continue to track down scofflaw vehicles to keep DC roadways safe.”<\/p>\n

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Yesterday, MPD’s Traffic Enforcement Unit and our partners at @DCDPW<\/a> impounded a vehicle with 893 outstanding tickets, totaling over $260,000 in fines!<\/p>\n

Repeated disregard of traffic law is unacceptable. We’ll continue to track down scofflaw vehicles to keep DC roadways safe. pic.twitter.com\/ugrxMPtJto<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 DC Police Department (@DCPoliceDept) April 9, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As an aside, I was admittedly today year’s old the first time I ever encountered the word “scofflaw,” and let me just say, it’s a perfectly constructed word for what it means.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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There’s a trend (if you can call two notable instances a trend) of drivers of black Audis simply not giving a hoot about traffic tickets. Last year, a black A6 in New York gained notoriety<\/a> after racking up 968 tickets (950 for speeding) over its lifetime, totaling more than $58,000 in fines, about $46,000 of which were indeed paid as of a year ago.<\/p>\n

Now, we’re not saying all black Audis are driven by recklessly well-funded speeders. What we are saying is that if we had a nickel every time a black Audi made headlines for racking up hella traffic tickets, we’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember that one time you got a traffic ticket and had the intrusive thought of, “What would actually happen if I just… never paid this?” Well, if you’re an Audi driver in Washington, D.C., apparently the answer is “not a whole lot for quite a long time.” DC police finally impounded a black, second-gen Q5 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,247],"class_list":["post-1897049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-jalopnik-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1897049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1897049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1897049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1897049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}