How can this be legal?

I guess the question is how you can take away someone's license for one infraction in an otherwise clean record.

Just for speeding, didn't run a red light, didn't cause an accident, wasn't drunk or high, was just going too fast.

Fines, points, that's okay and to be expected but a 6 month suspension? That seems beyond excessive to me.

I understand that 80mph in DC is hugely reckless, dangerous, and odds are that some one or thing will get hurt or damaged.

That said, it's nearly impossible to go 80 in DC on any street at any time of day. If you find a way to somehow go 80 in DC you probably should get a suspension.

But 80 on a rural Virginia highway is completely different. Especially since the posted limit was 70mph and not 40.

I just think that it's overboard and wrong.