The problem is simply that you just never know what is around the bend, and you can't rely on a seemingly unpopulated town to have the safest roads to gun it. Sometimes, those are just the worst places to speed, especially when unsuspecting children are used to the low traffic flow.
I know my dad tells a story about one day when he much younger he was taking a rather "spirited drive" through a desolate town on a windy country road in his Jensen Healey. He came up ove a bridge and just on the other side of it were two little children sitting in the road, playing. He barely stopped in time. He knew at that moment that he very well could have killed those kids. Granted, they shouldn't have been in the road, but again, you never know. It's just better to play it safe, and not to assume that just because you're a good driver, and you're in a ghost town, that there isn't something you're gonna hit. Most kids rely on low traffic town areas for safe playing ground. Drivers on the other hand look at it as a place with fewer obstacles. See where this clashes?
Sucks you got your license suspended, but I guess it could have been worse had you not been caught, but I guess we'll never know, and then again, maybe that's a good thing.
PS. Deer at 65 MPH are not fun either. Bye bye exhaust. Remember that, Tim? Hahaha. Eww.
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