So tomorrow I’m about to fight my speeding ticket that I had gotten about a year and a half ago. I was driving in my mom’s Mercedes, coming back from prom at around 1:30 and I was in the fast lane. At this point I was going with the flow of traffic. My exit is coming up so I begin to change lanes. I come up to the side of a semi truck and do what my driving instructor had taught me long ago: speed up a little when passing trucks because of their large blind spots. Now, I usually drive a pretty slow car, but tonight was not the case. So, I got a little carried away after passing the truck and maintained that speed (At this point I was out in the open and there were no other cars around me to judge my speed by). It is at this point that I got pulled over for going over 100. I was in disbelief that I had gone that fast. Should I plead guilty and state these facts and hope for a lowered fine or plead innocent somehow?

I am one of those people who high beam others to warn them of a speed trap. Typically the traps are at the bottom of a hill, or where the speed limit changes from 60 to 50.

I understand that these fines go to the city, but it’s still to me an underhanded way to catch speeders. But sometimes those I high beam still don’t get it, and get caught in the trap anyways.

So what’s your opinion? Especially police officers. Now, I have alot of respect for officers, in fact I work with police officers. But high beam warnings was taught to me by my driving instructor, my dad, basically anyone who had any hand in my learning to drive.