10 Ways To Get Out of a Speeding Ticket?

[MadRat]

The List

10. Read your ticket. Is the information correct? Is the law cited valid? Is the date you got the ticket correct?

9. What is the 85th percentile speed for this area? If your speed is close (within 5 mph) of the percentile speed, you have a defense... namely, "It would be dangerous to drive the speed limit."

8. Find out if the radar or laser gun is on the Consumer Product List. If not, it may not have been tested to ensure the accuracy of its measurements.

7. If the ticket is due to a traffic light or sign, be sure that the right regulations are being used to prosecute your case. State or even federal regulations may override local laws in some cases.

6. Prepare a set of questions to ask at the trial. It's a simple idea but often overlooked until you think afterwards, "I should have asked the officer about..." These will often elicit helpful information for your defense.

5. Become familiar with the radar and laser gun technology used to catch speeders. There are problems that may work to your defense if you do your homework.

4. Claim that the radar gun reading is wrong as a result of the radar catching you coming around a curve and/or the officer used instant-on or autolocking settings.

3. The radar beam is 120 feet wide at just 57 feet from the gun and widens at longer distances, so the officer caught you instead of the real speeder who was next to you.

2. Claim that the number of stores and/or radio transmitters in the area caused radio interference, and a true reading is not possible due to shadowing, panning, batching, etc, but you will want to explain these yourself to have any hope of credibility.

1. Use the time distance defense to show you couldn't possibly be moving as fast as the ticket stated, but make sure you do your math carefully.

 

[Superwormy]

holy sh!t, people need to learn to own up and just pay the damn ticket!

 

[McCarthy]

Or slow down!

 

[Nemesis77]

1 way to get out of speeding-tickets:

1. Don't drive faster than the speed-limit allows

there, problem solved.

 

[kranky]

The time it would take to research all that stuff would have to be multiples of any amount of time saved by speeding. Kind of like when people fight with a company for weeks to get a hot deal that saved them $8.

 

[DaFinn]

Originally posted by: Nemesis77
1 way to get out of speeding-tickets:

1. Don't drive faster than the speed-limit allows

there, problem solved.

:beer:

 

[Confused]

Over in the UK, if you get pulled over by a speed camera, ask for the calibration certificate for that day. If it cannot be produced, then they can't do ya. That's what I was told, anyway.


Confused

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: Nemesis77
1 way to get out of speeding-tickets:

1. Don't drive faster than the speed-limit allows

there, problem solved.

But...but... Laws are just for other people, not for them! People who don't speed are far more dangerous, cause it's dangerous if they stick to the speed limit while some jerk who has to speed can't stop in time!

 

[Encryptic]

Originally posted by: Confused
Over in the UK, if you get pulled over by a speed camera, ask for the calibration certificate for that day. If it cannot be produced, then they can't do ya. That's what I was told, anyway.


Confused

Why would you want to do them anyway? They're writing you a ticket already, the last thing you want is to "reward" them. Unless of course it gets you out of the ticket. :Q

 

[Hoober]

Originally posted by: Encryptic

Originally posted by: Confused
Over in the UK, if you get pulled over by a speed camera, ask for the calibration certificate for that day. If it cannot be produced, then they can't do ya. That's what I was told, anyway.


Confused

Why would you want to do them anyway? They're writing you a ticket already, the last thing you want is to "reward" them. Unless of course it gets you out of the ticket. :Q

So you'd do that to get out of a ticket?

 

[yobarman]

I'm sorry but I can't drive the speed limit. I have to be going a little bit faster than the normal flow of traffic. And in some spots the speed limit is way too low for the kind of road it is.

 

[Encryptic]

Originally posted by: Hoober

Originally posted by: Encryptic

Originally posted by: Confused
Over in the UK, if you get pulled over by a speed camera, ask for the calibration certificate for that day. If it cannot be produced, then they can't do ya. That's what I was told, anyway.


Confused

Why would you want to do them anyway? They're writing you a ticket already, the last thing you want is to "reward" them. Unless of course it gets you out of the ticket. :Q

So you'd do that to get out of a ticket?

If it was the "hottie" cop from Night At The Roxbury, maybe.

 

[Zombie]

Originally posted by: Superwormy
holy sh!t, people need to learn to own up and just pay the damn ticket!

yeah whatever. :disgust:

 

[DrPizza]

Sorry, a few problems with a couple of your 10.... If *I* was the judge, they wouldn't work on me.

1. time distance defense. Distance divided by time gives the AVERAGE speed, not instantaneous speed. You can travel 60 miles in 1 hour, but at times be going much faster than 60mph.

4. Go ahead and claim the radar gun was wrong because you were coming around a bend. Go ahead. You are claiming that you were going FASTER than what the radar said. The radar was wrong = it read too low of a speed.

9. Where are you going to get the 85th percentile speed from?

But, my wife was fined because of 3. Radar said 70 in a 55. Wife said, "Sir, I had the cruise control set at 62." Officer, "you just admitted you were speeding. 62 in a 55 is speeding."

And, I loved #7. There was a really old stop sign at the end of my street... never any traffic there... I just slowed to about 20 and went right through. It didn't meet DOT regulations. (not reflective whatsoever; could barely see it at night)

 

[cjchaps]

It's quite amazing how many people on ATOT never speed

 

[emmpee]

Originally posted by: cjchaps
It's quite amazing how many people on ATOT never speed

There's probably more that take full responsibility for their speeding

 

[yoda291]

I don't think it's possible not to speed while driving in some parts of the country. the flow of traffic is just THAT much faster.

 

[BigLinc]

It seems the popular opinion here is that people should go the speed limit, or own up to speeding when ticketed.

So, I'm going to go ahead and bring the not so popular opinion.

1. What if I don't feel like CRAWLING at the speed limit? Really, can someone provide me with some evidence that going 70mph or even 80mph is THAT MUCH more dangerous than 55mph or 65mph?

2. I wonder how many of the people that talk about staying within the speed limit here actually do? Or even have a License.

3. I once got a speeding ticket in Connecticut, going 78mph in a 65mph zone. 13mph over the limit. It was a PERFECTLY clear day and I was in a gang of other cars traveling approx the same speed, but I was the lucky one. That cost me $250. I've got no problem owning up to doing something wrong, but that's plain BS no matter how you cut it.

4. The REAL problem isn't speeding, it's RETARDS that don't know how to drive. `

 

[Zrom999]

If you don't stop, they can't give you the ticket...

 

[Kemosabe1447]

I just follow my brothers lead...he has been pulled over 17 times without getting a ticket

 

[Bleep]

They give speeding tickets in Omaha? I thought all the cops there do is try and stop the crusing on Dodge.

Bleep

 

[BooGiMaN]

msnbc.com take on getting out of tickets..

This sounds more reasonable than the list

 

[Yax]

Just get yourself a radar detector! Saved me lots of times already. As soon as the Ka band starts to go off, I slow down and watch for the cop to go by or stop someone else.

I think a couple of hundred dollars investment in this thing to save on several speeding tickets plus insurance hikes is well worth it.

As for stop signs. Well that's a different problem. I just do full stop at all intersections.

 

[LongCoolMother]

Originally posted by: cheapbidder01
Just get yourself a radar detector! Saved me lots of times already. As soon as the Ka band starts to go off, I slow down and watch for the cop to go by or stop someone else.

I think a couple of hundred dollars investment in this thing to save on several speeding tickets plus insurance hikes is well worth it.

As for stop signs. Well that's a different problem. I just do full stop at all intersections.

true. true. radar detectors=problem solved, except its illegal in some areas

 

[edro]

Here is a good way to get rid of speeding tickets: PAY THEM and SHUT THE HELL UP.

I have had 4 speeding tickets in the last 2-3 years.... I pay the ticket and go on about my business. You cannot win. All those defenses are bull crap and the judge will just laugh at you. Even if you say that you were going 66 in a 65, not 80 like on the ticket..... he will say that you were speeding by 1 mph....still speeding.

Just pay the ticket. You know you were gambling with the law....and the law won.

(This post isn't directed at anyone in particular )

EDIT: BTW, speeding IS necessary..... in most cities. I speed everyday.... usually by about 10-20mph over the limit on the interstate. Just so you know...