Speeding Ticket 58mph in a 50 zone?
Has anybody (as of today 10th August 2007) got a pending speeding ticket, or have you just had a speeding ticket? I've just got one and I need to know if it's valid or not. At the bottom of my 'intended prosecution' notice is a box marked 'FOR POLICE USE ONLY' with spaces for a Police Officer (or someone else) to declare that they have sent this notice to me by normal mail, and it goes on to say that the sheet I've received is a true copy. The thing is, this section has not been filled in by anyone and therefore is not signed and dated. The date is included higher up the form, but not on this declaration. Has anyone got a current similar form, has this section been filled in on yours, and do you think this omission makes my form invalid? Any other advice as to how to get this ticket quashed? It's yet another money making venture from a Government that has already stolen nearly every penny I've earned. No wonder people don't help the police much!
Thanks in advance.
2007-08-10 06:12:14 · 5 answers · asked by P.Doff 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Theres a good chance to get a ticket like that thrown out. Its not like you were doing 70. Tell the judge that you were moving with the flow of traffic, or just reason with him. Ask him if 8mph over the limit is really speeding
2007-08-10 06:21:29 · answer #1 · answered by Fenix 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't think you are going to quash it. The best you can hope for is to show up in court and hope the ticketing officer doesn't show up. I have talked to many policeman and state troopers. They rarely give a ticket to anyone going up to 9 MPH over the speed limit unless it is in a school zone when children are present or in other 'slow' MPH zones. I know where I live you have to be doing 80 MPH+ on the 55 MPH tollway before you get a ticket. Everyone drives like a bat out of hell there. Perhaps the ticketing officer was having a bad day or trying to fill his month end quota.
2007-08-10 06:24:08 · answer #2 · answered by Volusian 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I know that it's unusual to get a ticket without going 10 mph over the limit, but ummm... it is called a speed LIMIT.
Cop might have had a bad day, maybe you looked at him cross-eyed, whatever, it's a valid ticket. Judge might toss it, but be prepared to eat it.
2007-08-16 15:22:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tickets are another form of tax,es do the police protect us or are they mostly road cops/
2007-08-15 21:59:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Minor clerical errors (scrivener errors) do not invalidate a ticket. You will not win using that approach.
2007-08-10 06:20:34 · answer #5 · answered by davidmi711 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋