Is it really possible to get out of a speeding ticket for clarical errors on a ticket?

Question

I was daydreaming while snow was beginning to fall...and didn't realize I had pushed harder down on the gas. I don't have cruise control, and was on a deserted highway on my way to work on Saturday morning. I was "zapped" in mid-daydream at 78 in a 65. He did not write down the correct year of my vehicle, and didn't ask me to sign the ticket. He informed me of the court date and if I didn't want to go, I could mail in fine to the address on the back.

I know I am in the wrong, and admit to speeding, but I feel like the whole thing is silly...mostly because I don't have a good reason for the ticket.

The last ticket I received was on Christmas Day 2000 when I was driving 45 in a 65 and hit a patch of black ice and lost control and rolled my car into a ditch. I hit nothing, yet still got a ticket for driving too fast for road conditions...which was a horse load a crap....but anyway.

My mom works at an attorney's office and she's going to check with them about options.

Um...you guys should have a sense of humor here. Do you think I'm a complete idiot? It's Yahoo Answers because I'm asking a question. I'm not some bumbling idiot behind the wheel.

I know I was speeding. Big whoop. My point for this is, I never speed and am on a tight budget. If I let this hit my insurance, it'll jack me for the next X number of years. If I sped all the time, I think I'd have more than one ticket every 7 years.

Oh, and if I was driving too fast on the ice...then why did I have 7 cars backed up behind me and pissed off?

How about an answer from a credible source other than people bitter at the world. Thanks. :)

Answer 1

A mistake on a ticket does not void it.

If the police officer can prove it was you, and can prove you were speeding, that is all the court needs to find you guilty. If you admitted speeding, he can use that statement against you.

The court does one of two things, they either amend the ticket with the correct information, or dismiss it and instruct the officer to issue another one.

Your best be is if the attorney your mom works for tries to get the ticket amended to a non-moving violation that does not show up on your driving record.

Answer 2

Getting away with things on a technicality happens a lot more on TV than in the real world, but it is possible. I don't think that your chances are very strong because you were informed of the court date, so any problems you have with the ticket could be addressed then, and unless you go into court and claim you weren't the driver, I don't see how those techioncalities will help you. I've been in a similar situation where a typographical error on a lease gave me, I thought, a very good cause to prevent an improper eviction. The judge agreed that the errors was there, and even agreed that it was the landlord's responsibility, but ruled against me anyway - admitting that if he took the contract literally he would not. So, I wish you luck, but I wonder if this is the battle you want to fight. You might win, it might save you some money, but in the end is this what you want to put your energy and time into? Let me know how it turnjs out!

Answer 3

a ticket is nothing more than your notice or receipt to show up in court. Its like a detention slip in school. The officers testimony is what will convict you. Unless the entire ticket is really blatantly wrong, the judge really isn't going to care if your car is tan and the officer wrote brown or if the year is off. The officer is ticketing you, not the car. That would get you off for a parking ticket.
Errors on PARKING tickets can be grounds for dismissal as the ticket is the states evidence in that case.

Signing it is also irrelevant and here in NY, you don't have to sign at all. In fact there is no place to sign.
Also, remember that any ticket is in lieu of arrest.

As far as "options" you seem to readily admit you where speeding and that is what the testimony will prove, so I am not exactly sure how you plan on getting off. The facts, as you state, are you where speeding and daydreaming. Real smart. Many people are quite surprised at how quick and efficient traffic court is. The cop has done this hundreds of times. You? twice. My money is on the cop. He has his whole testimony down. I would suggest a little humble pie, try and get a plea to at least save your insurance rates and points.

Answer 4

Clerical error will not get you out of a ticket. Depending on where you are at, there you might not be required to sign the ticket (In WI you dont have to sign anything). The 13 over in its self is a good resaon for a ticket- If your record is clean, you can always ask the court to hold the violation open for a year- which means that if you have no further violations this one may be dismissed. Take it to court and ask the city attorney if they would consider this or even maybe reducing the citation to a lesser offense.

Answer 5

I got off because the cop wrote down the wrong digit in my license number. Always appeal your tickets, there's lots of reasons you could win, the officer may not even show up in court, if he's too busy, or moved away. For something like a seatbelt violataion, have someone take a picture of you in the exact place the cop saw you, hopefully try to prove that its possible the cop didn't see the seatbelt from the angle he was at.

Answer 6

First, since you were speeding, that is a perfectly good reason to give you a ticket. What exactly do you believe you need to do to deserve a ticket? Second, how is driving so fast that you flip your car NOT driving too fast for the conditions? Sure, you were driving under the speed limit, but if you were driving too fast to control your car, you were by definition driving too fast for conditions. You should just pay your ticket and learn your lesson, rather than having mommy try to get you out of it. If you are old enough to drive, you are old enough to start acting like an adult, which you certainly should be since you were driving 7 years ago, making you at least 23 today.

Answer 7

You don't have a good reason for the ticket??? You were speeding, that's good enough.

No you can not get out of the ticket for clerical errors. The officer or the court can amend the ticket for minor corrections.

Pay the fine and slow down..... daydreaming while you're driving.... seriously are you trying to kill someone?

Answer 8

There are multiple copies to a quotation. One you preserve, one an officer turns in & one that is filed on the station- maximum possibly the unique. No protection in case you won't be ready to ascertain his signature. i'm confident the unique has it positive and clean for the decide to ascertain. I only love the way you have positive vast ones to break the regulation, then they modify into the dimensions of a BB once you wimp out & attempt to weasel your way out of the quotation as a replace of being an person & settle for the outcomes you knew ought to take place once you get caught.

Answer 9

You are not required to sign the citation, and the error on the year of the vehicle can be amended in court. It does not have nay bearing on the violation.