Got a speeding Tix for 31mph over in an active work zone. Anyone have any experience with this?

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: randal
you're fscked.

lawyer

 

[foolanger]

Originally posted by: Chompman
How much was the ticket for seeing how fines are doubled in work zones.

The ticket was right under $300

 

[edro]

Definitely go to court and tell the judge that you were not speeding and that you noticed the police officer standing on the side of the road, WRITING a ticket as he waived you over.

DO NOT say you were going ~50mph... just say that you were not speeding. If the speed limit was 40, say you were going 40. 41mph is the same as 100mph to them.

If they use crap tactics to steal your money, you gotta do the same to even have a chance at "winning".

 

[tomstevens26]

I hate how they reduce the speed limit in "work" zones. One of the major freeways leaving our city has been reduced from 65 to 35 for over 2 years now as they widen it yet again. My problem is that there is about a 4 mile stretch that is "under construction" but no one has worked on that section for months. Anyways, my wife was doing 83 in the 35 about a year ago. Of course the stupid speed trap caught her, but she got lucky. Apparently the local officers had been assigning all of the court dates to the say day, which overloaded the docket. My wife said it was standing room only in the court room. The judge, pissed about a packed courtroom, and having warned the police department about overloading the docket once before, dismissed all of the traffic cases scheduled for that day. So she got lucky, but something like that probably doesn't happen too often. Good luck!

 

[TwoBills]

Originally posted by: foolanger
I thought to myself that they must of had a speed trap at the beginning of the work zone

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Do ya think?


Next time you're rollin' at 31 over, keep to the school zones and residential areas.

"I havn't had a ticket in 7 years" or "I've never had a ticket". Hear that all the time from some of the worst drivers out there.

Just pay up and slow down. Take your 15 days (plus control period, plus probation period). Should be done with it within 2 years. Give you time to think.