Why should the uncle have to pay for it if he wasn’t the one speeding? 

You can’t always trust people with your car. It doesn’t matter how much they beg and plead: a car is not something that you should lend out to just anybody. You need to be able to trust that the person you’re lending it to will bring it back in one piece. In fact, you should probably have higher standards than merely trusting that the person who is borrowing your car won’t total it. If you think there is a chance that your sister will scratch your car, you shouldn’t lend it to her.

I’m probably one of those people who shouldn’t be trusted with somebody’s car. My friend lent me her car in college, and I didn’t damage it in any way, but I did get a speeding ticket while driving it. To be fair to myself, I didn’t understand that people actually followed the speed limit on the highway in the Midwest. I’m from Texas, and anyone driving the speed limit on the highway is going to get run out of town, and deservedly so! Cops won’t pull anyone over on the highway unless they’re going more than 20 over. If they pulled people over for going 10 over on the highway in Texas, everyone would get a speeding ticket every day, and nobody would get to work on time. 

The uncle in this story lent his car to his niece, and she didn’t get pulled over. She was speeding, and a camera caught her, found her license plate number, and sent the bill to her uncle. If I were her, I would have apologized profusely and paid the ticket with my own money, but she didn’t. Instead, she and her mother insisted that her uncle should foot the bill, because it was his car. I would expect this kind of behavior from a teenager, but not an adult woman! The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.