A cop pulled me over and told me I was going 85 in a 65. He wrote me a ticket and a few miles down the road I realized that he had written 95 on the ticket instead of 85. This is a huge difference considering the penalty is much higher between 21-30 miles per hour compared to just 20. Should I go to court and contest it, call in to see if it can be fixed? What should I do?

I got a speeding ticket this weekend. I was going 11 miles per hour over the speed limit. I am in California. Anyone else have the same mph over and in California? How much was your ticket for?
Are you serious? You must have been doing more then 11 over. I got one a last year doing 16 over and it was only 0.00

I got a ticket and what to know if it is worth fighting based on the fact that I was not going as fact as he stated but actually can probably reduce it by 5-8 miles per hour

lets say I had a speeding ticket for going 60 in a 45…..I know the police will say the usual ….that he identified my car at around 600 feet manually estimated my speed according to his training which could be off by 1-3 miles per hour and used the laser gun 3 times and got the same read out all three times all showing that it was consistant with me goin 60….

would it be a valid defense to point out that if a vehicle was going 60 MPH consistantly that it would be going at 88 feet per second which would mean that I would have passed him at 6.82 seconds and that it would be impossible to do all that within that time frame? How should I go about it? With out tipping him or the prosecuter off if it is a valid defense…..

Should I ask if he continued to laser me as I passed him? (to assure that I can use that 6.82 seconds against him)

Should I ask him how long it took to manually estimate and how long it took to laser it? or are their any more subtle ways?
I guess Jesse….actually this was already a ticket that I got I was just thinking if there was something I could have done to avoided it if I could have brought this up I will be kicking myself through my insurance payments for a while
Good that makes me feel better coming from an officer….lol

I recently got a speeding ticket in Peoria. I was "allegedly" driving 75 miles per hour in a 55 miles per hour zone. I got a ticket, but the officer also took away my driver’s license. It was my first driving offense and I am wondering if he had the right to do that? I also got a ticket, but I plead not guilty, so it will be while until I get my license back.

I got a speeding ticket (Texas) to the tune of 5 today. The court fee is 5 and for each mile per hour above the speed limit (school zone).

There is a school about a half a mile down the road from my house. The road dead ends at the school and you can turn either right or left. I turned left to head to the interstate a couple of miles down the road. Between my house and the school, there are no signs posted stating the speed limit. Nor are there signs when you turn left. In order to see the flashing school zone speed signs, you have to have been driving on the road that leads to the interstate.Today, after turning left at the school, I sped up to 35 miles per hour and was pulled over. The normal speed limit for that stretch of the road is 40 mph. During school time, it is 20 mph. Again, it is not marked anywhere on the route from my house. I didn’t think about it being school time, and I sped up to 35 and was caught over by 15! Should I contest this?

The officer did not have radar in hand, she was out of her unit talking with another car that she had pulled over in the roadway and ran at me like a crazed nut. I almost hit her, I had to swerve and slam on breaks. How does she justify telling me I was going 42/25 while out of her vehicle without a gun and without completing the tests required?
Thank you all for your answers. I in no way was going 42 miles per hour! The officer was about 50/60 feet in front of her car talking to another car she had pulled over in the middle of the street.

There was another car down the road that she had pulled over and her car was behind it. There was no way she heard or saw anything.

The road in question is a country road that transitions to the city and the speed limit is 45 and drops to 25 vice versus depending on direction. I had JUST turned off the highway and saw the spectacle before me and thought it was a wreck of some sort. I was not going 42 mph! It isn’t possible!

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080718-nabbed-for-speeding-gps-data-could-get-you-off-the-hook.html

Its strange that NO COP wants to believe if i say i have gotten ‘incorrect speeding tickets’. Finally there is some scientific defense!

The sad thing is that a SCIENTIST really went and LIED about the accuracy of GPS devices in the case above! The sad truth is that GPS is not as prone to ‘user error’ as the typical police radar gun! Once the GPS is correctly installed, its accuracy is fairly ‘constant’.

What are your thoughts on this?
What is interesting is that SOO many people believe wholeheartedly that an error is impossible. Here is someone who SAYS they werent speeding and has scientific evidence in his defence and you still have people who think a radar gun is ‘almighty, infallible and accurate’.

Most people who believe this have NEVER studied how EITHER device works!
Which one is more likely:

1) did a young inexperienced driver magically change his speed sufficently and quickly enough to cheat a 15 to 30 second GPS snapshot that is DESIGNED to restrict speeding. OR

2) Did a police officer make an incorrect deduction in deciding which car to pull over?

If you think about it, both are possible but which one is probable? Unless the youth is a skilled precision driver, the device presents major DOUBTS about the case.

Was this particlar young man doing +60mph while skillfully maintaining 45 miles per hour by GPS.

This case presents MORE THAN reasonable doubt about the ticket.

The speed limit in the school zone was 25 miles per hour. I was caught by the cop going 46. How much is the ticket going to be? Is it double a normal speeding ticket or more?

the formula F=8(x-65)+100 where F is the cost, in dollars, of the fine if a person is caught driving x miles per hour. If the fine comes to 2, how fast was the person driving?

I got a speeding ticket on a freeway in Santa Clara, CA for 98 miles per hour on 65 miles per hour. How much will the ticket cost me and how can I dispute it in traffic court?

the fine if a person is caught driving X miles per hour if the fine comes to 2, how fast was the person driving

I just moved to WA from CA and received a ticket less than a mile from my new apartment. The officer said I was going 46 in a 25. About 50 feet from where he says I was speeding I was passing a bicyclist. I followed the bicyclist for a good mile because there was oncoming traffic. Then I hesitated to pass him as I was going around a small curve and am not yet very familiar with the road or comfortable with all of the bicyclists on the island.

I could tell the driver behind me was agitated that I wasn’t passing the bicyclist because he was on my tail. I was going about 10 miles per hour with the bicyclist right in front of me in the middle of the lane. Then I moved over and passed the bicyclist. 50 feet later a cop was across the street, no sirens on the roof of the car and just past a curve. He immediately put on his sirens and pulled me over. There would have been no time for me to go from 10 miles per hour to 46 miles per hour in 50 feet and 10 seconds.

There was a man who was stopped for speeding at 100 miles per hour when the speed limit was 55 mph. The police officer wrote him a ticket, so in a rage of anger, the man shot and killed the police officer.

This way, the man avoided the speeding ticket becoming official. The man then drove away from the killed officer and went home.

Interestingly, he was taken to jail later that night in handcuffs eventhough he never got speeding ticket. He was charged with murdering the officer, but he will use the insanity defense so the man isn’t worried about the murder charge, (he was in a rage of anger).

But if he gets off on insanity AND the ticket can’t be officialize, he won’t get a speeding ticket, right?

Somebody I know (not me) got a speeding ticket for doing 46 in a 30mph zone, as indiciated by the traffic citation. When I looked up the law, it says that the driver was in violation of Wisconsin State Statute 346.57(4):

Fixed limits. In addition to complying with the speed restrictions imposed by subs. (2) and (3), no person shall drive a vehicle at a speed in excess of the following limits unless different limits are indicated by official traffic signs:

Notice how 346.57(4) is only the summary level category of all the fixed limits they list out, but the cop did not pick one – 346.57(4)(gm) for example which says:

Sixty-five miles per hour on any freeway or expressway.

In fact, 30mph is not even a fixed speed limit listed under that law. Can the driver use the defense of not being charged with a specific charge and/or not knowing what they are being charged with and get out of the ticket at trial?

http://nxt.legis.state.wi.us/nxt/gateway.dll?f=templates&fn=default.htm&d=stats&jd=top

The cop should have written this one down:

346.57(5) Zoned and posted limits. In addition to complying with the speed restrictions imposed by subs. (2) and (3), no person shall drive a vehicle in excess of any speed limit established pursuant to law by state or local authorities and indicated by official signs.

Yesterday i recieved my first ticket and I was wondering what the penalties are i already know i have to go to court becuase i am under 18 but what are my options as to it not showing up on my record? And what if no options are given to me because it was 23 miles per hour over the speed limit? The cop said something to me about if i dont get a ticket within six months this one wont count what is this called?

upon examination of my speeding ticket and careless driving ticket, i found that the careless driving ticket was not checked for a 65 mph zone and that the statute cited for my speeding was nj 19:9-1.26, which states:

19:9-1.26 Parades, demonstrations and picnics prohibited
(a) Parades or other demonstrations are prohibited on Authority property.

meanwhile, the speeding statute is 19:9-1.2:

19:9-1.2 Speed limits
(a) Vehicles shall not be operated at a speed in excess of 65 miles per hour

is there any way i can use this to fight these tickets in some respect?
i do want to own up to my mistake. i feel both responsible and guilty, but i am just viewing all options and strategies.

my best bet is to go in first and look for a plea bargain of some kind… because i would rather avoid the points etc. and just pay now and never hear about it again.
and no, this is not the start of a horrible trend… it was a one time mistake. i was speeding for all of 10 seconds… just to see what it felt like. what a stupid move…