Got a speeding ticket! What do i do!?
 

I know its prob in the wrong section.. Didnt know where else to put it.. Sorry in advance :(
Anywhoo.. Strangely ive never gotten a speeding ticket. Worst part is i want intentionally driving fast.. Im going through some personal issues at the
Moment.. The speed limit was 65, i had so much on my mind that before i knew it i had a police officer telling me i was going 85..

Anyways.. Anyone have any tips? I dont want my insurance to go up.. Im ok paying the ticket. But i dont want a point on my record.
Ah what a day :(

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Just got two speeding tickets this summer One ticket I'm on diversion for And the other if i pay double they will drop it. But I've only had one speeding ticket when I was 14 so if your record isn't jacked with tickets you Should be able to get it dropped and some how get if off your Record depending on your state

I always contend my tickets, and most times I get it nulled or half off the original.and especially if its your first time, you can fight it and say you had a clean record before and etc, good luck. :tup:

Defensive driving.

Defensive driving???? Explain?
If it helps i was 3 hours away from him i went on a road trip and caught me off guard on a curve. Maybe i can say i was tired from my 8 hour drive??

I only have a ticket which i cleared from taking a red light by accident.
And one for having cam shafts on an older car of mine.
But thats all i have.
Maybe ill be able to clear it?

If you plead no contest they allow you to take drivers Ed which is a class or home video takes forever but it will have the ticket go off the record. If I remember correct been 3 years since my last ticket

Its a safety course they have in TX you can take to keep the ticket off your record. Can only do it every 6 months or something like that. I was 22 mph over and I have to do it soon.

yeah here in CT its called driver re-training. :icon17:

I live in california. Same rules apply right?

Just do defensive diving , ask the Judge


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Hope i dont have to drive 3 hours back to that city :(

U will have to I believe in order to get defensive driving.

:ugh2: why is this in the track section ?

lol sorry i didn't know where else to put it. :confused:

Go to court, plead guilty, they'll cut you a deal.

Thanks! Will do :)

Because race car!

Good luck bro.

Never plead guilty in California. You have 3 opportunities to beat a ticket: trial by written declaration, court trial, and appeal process. The latter two require the officer to appear in court (in contesting 4 speeding tickets, 3 times the officer did not show up and I won by default, the last time I had the law on my side).

Knowing which CVC you violated will help determine exactly what the law said you broke. Highway speed laws are different from surface street regulations.

check out Help! I Got a Ticket! It specializes in helping California drivers fight speeding tickets. It's all reading material, no books or bs to buy and it's step by step how to beat a speeding ticket. Good luck.

Not sure what CA allows you to do...but here in FL we can take an online driving course (4 hours long). You have to pay like $30 for it on top of the price of the ticket...but it prevents points from being added to your license. The down side is you can only take it once within a 12 month period or 5 times in a lifetime.

Similar here in AZ. Price of the ticket + $20 and you can only take it for one violation once every two years.

You don't have to go to court or anything - our tickets come with phone numbers and a brochure of places to call. :icon17:

Thankfully there's no lifetime limit, as I have taken the course at least 5 or 6 times (I like to span out my speeding tickets to about every two years if I get one it seems :rofl2:)

I also remember when the classes were eight hours long, man, that ruined a Sat. or Sun. Now they're either online or a four hour classroom session.

Wow thank you so much, you have no idea how much i appreciate the help.

So when you say i have 3 opportunities to beat it. You mean in the same ticket right? As in, if the written declaration fails i can always do the appeal and if that fails i can do the court trial?? In which case if all 3 fail i have to pay and go to driving school?

Ill take a look at it right now thanks a bunch!

At the end online classes might not be an option I thought that was up to the judge at that point... If u go through, ur just hoping the cop doesn't show up.


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this. in my state doing 20 over they will drop down to parked on pavement 0 points and $150 fine. especially if you have clean driving record

In California that does fly...!!!!

*doesn't


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I am here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.037908,-118.474618

So what your saying is either i take the class and pay, OR, go with trying o fight it and risk loosing my opportunity?? Unless i ask the judge and hope he allows me?

Stupid cop >:| you know what pisses me off the most is, for years I've been driving over the speed limit and the day i wasn't intentionally driving fast i get a ticket! Lol

Lucky! What state is that??

I've gotten off by contesting the ticket. This is what you do:

1. Ask for extension for arraignment (most states can be done on-line, if not you have to go to court and ask the clerk for an extension) will give you new date for arraignment. (hopefully will be two months later).
2. Show up for court; arraignment, you can plea 1) guilty, 2)not guilty, or 3)no contest; plea not guilty, pay the bail, and the court will give you a trial date (a month to two months later).
3)Show up for trial; this is the tricky part, if the police officer doesn't show up, you win! Hopefully by this time, 5-6 months later from the initial ticket, the police officer will have forgotten about you and your ticket and will not show up. If he shows up, he has to prove to the court, detail by detail to what happened and why he/she gave you the ticket. I've gotten off from a speeding ticket this way. If you're still convicted and found guilty, just ask the judge if you can go to traffic school so that it doesn't go on your driving record and affecting your insurance.

Good luck!

It must differ from state to state, because here if you go to court then you waive your right to go to traffic school.

I'd first call the traffic school and see if that's the case in your state.

Oh, and what I learned when I lost my contest in court (was hoping he wouldn't show) is that you must state how fast you were going. It's not criminal court, you're guilty the minute you walk in there.

Yes, it really varies by states, some you can just call the police department and ask for the number to be put in probation for 6month-1 year usually but only for that same county. I know I did this in Indiana and Illinois. From experience also, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and similar states you can just pay your uncle attorney, friend attorney $70-100 bucks and ticket disappears completely....but you gotta still pay the fine. There's pretty much always traffic school etc that you can do ^.

California is a b/iatch with tickets, so people try to context and extend as much as they can in hopes of the cop not showing up. A lot of judges obviously know this so if the cops shows up sometimes they say screw you no traffic school.....

FYI, I haven't gotten a ticket in ages, but when I was a teenager yes I was wreckless and probably got about 10 tickets but out in the midwest there is really nothing out there.......... luckily my uncle was an attorney, my friend's mom was a judge, and I knew the attorney general.... so all tickets were fixed for $0 pretty much.

In California you pay for the right to go to traffic school. During the arraignment they will say that if you plead "not guilty" then you will be denied traffic school if you're found guilty in court; HOWEVER, even though it's up to the judge's discretion on whether or not to allow you traffic school the court system has incentive to give you traffic school because you pay the court extra for it (on top of the traffic school fee). California's on hard times right now and needs extortion, I mean ticket, fees in order to balance its checkbook.

As it stands cops are still paid for going to court and it will depend on whether he would rather do paper work or continue patrolling the highways. I'm going to go way out on a limb here and say he'd rather keep cruising in his charger.

Honestly if everyone who GOT a ticket would just take some time to fight it then the country's extortion scheme would be financially unfeasible. I blame sheep who automatically plead guilty for the concession prize of a "lowered fine" for allowing the courts to continue to lower speed limits and use that as an excuse to nickle and dime us.

Pretty much, also think of the time you waste instead of being at work, I'd say suck it up take the online class.

few more insight from the courts, it says 1 ticket in 18th months period will not show on your driving record check this out.

LASC - Traffic

you can request extension, traffic school, court date, etc through there it looks like.

http://www.lasuperiorcourt.org/traff...ficSchool.aspx

Stupid double post... sorry

All said and done fighting a ticket will cost you about 12 hours (from standing in line, court, etc.) spread out over several days. Avg speeding ticket just from my experience is anywhere between $350-$500 depending on the type of infraction (typically CVC22350 or 22351 will be in the low/mid range and account for 90% of speed related infractions). So you can do the math and determine whether or not 12 hours for $350 (lets argue the low end) is worth your time off from work.

Ofcourse OP was on the highway which I think has its own CVC altogether and probably carries a heftier fine.

Personally I fight every ticket I can because if you don't you also have to factor in cost of driving school + time spent at driving school (once again depending on infraction it could be as simple as an online course or an 8 hour driving class). The counter argument is that winning is never guaranteed which, ofcourse, will need to factor into your decision as well.

You guys rock!
Ive never gotten a speeding ticket (just one for "taking" a red light) so i instantaneously panicked. Lol

Honestly i wouldn't mind fighting it, but i don't want my insurance to go up higher than it already is. So id be scared to fight it, loose. And have my insurance go up. But with what martin82 said about it not being on record.. I have some thinking to do.
It would be nice to just make the ticket disappear lol