Can i fight a speeding ticket with no radar, for speeding in a school zone?
952150
35-40 in a 25 mile an hour school zone is not speeding a little. Whether you can get out of this or not I would recommend you watch yourself speeding. At that speed a kid could step in front of you and you would hit them before you realized you did. I do not think that is something a 16 yr old or anyone at any age would want to have to live with. The speed limit is set for the reason of maintaining the safety of our children. The officer is allowed some leeway in estimating your rate of speed and probably you can get it knocked down to 10 over, pay the fine and quit speeding. May be one of your own family you hit.
921593
I am also one of the unlucky people who got caught!!! I was doing 34 in a 30 zone, in my boyfriends car.\n\nThey sent a letter to the owner of the car asking them to either admit or provide details of the person who was driving at the time. In my case my fella filled it in with my details and sent it back then the same form came back with my details asking me if I was the person driving. I sent it back, then about 4 weeks later I got a letter asking me to choose either £60 fine and 3 points on my licence or £65 fine and attend a speed awareness course. I have opted for the speed awareness course and I will be attending it tomorrow!!! \n\nI think it depends on how fast you were going and how many driving offences you have previously had as to whether they offer you the course and how much of a fine they give you.\n\nBecause the excess of the limit that you were doing, they might give you a bigger fine and not even give you the chance to attend a course.\n\n(If you keep this question open til Wednesday i can let you know what to expect on the course!)\n\nSo I asked on the course about being offered the course rather than getting stuck with the points. Apparantly the different areas and counties have different rules as to who they will offer the course to. In my case, the course was only offered to the people who were speeding in a 30 zone in Northumbria. In other counties they also include 40, 50 and 60 zones. They also have a cut off point, at which even if they usually offer the option of the course, they will just issue you with points. I asked what our cut off point was and it was 36mph.\n\nI think because of your excess you will not be offered the option of the course and will be stuck with the points! Sorry hun, I hope this has given you a bit of an insight as to what will happen.\n\nDon't sweat about it too much, although you could follow my line of thinking and get a road angel!!!
897431
Look speeding in a school zone is really bad. I do not have any idea of your driving history. But if this is the first offense you have, here is what I would recommend. Go and get yourself a good traffic lawyer.  You can tell him all the details.  Hopefully he can negoitate the speeding to a violation less than 10 miles an hour and you pay the full fine. Lots of times this is what happens, if you do not do this you are looking at a four point violation, and very high insurance for at least three years.  There is no way to get this thrown out totally.  It just doesn't work like that. Normally your attorney will negotiate to have it reduced and you pay the full fine.
50735
the most easy thing to do will to go in to the police station that gave you the ticket they will have a copy and if they dont than you do not have to pay it because then it dose not exist. or if it is something little you can see if they will just let you off cops do listen to reason
8556
It tends to be on technicalities.  Where there many vehicles moving with you and you were received a tickets?  Did this affect the radar gun effectiveness with your vehicle?  When the officer was pacing your vehicle, was his spedometer calibrated properly and in properly maintained?\n\nSo you see, there are many technicalities.  But if you are responsible, it is better to take a driving class if offered by the court to have the ticket dismissed.
782524
63 mph in a 30 zone !!!!!!!!!!!!! are you some kind of idiot, i hope you get a ban as you deserve one, at over 60 mph you could have killed someone, if a child had steped out in front of you there is no way you would have been able to stop. Speed cameras are there to stop people like you !!!!!!!!!!!!
588561
just get busted for speeding. if they don't haul ya butt off to the pokey you don't have warrants. or call dps austin warrant div and ask them.
835531
You should double check your state's traffic laws. I had trouble searching the Florida's BMV website, but I can tell you that in Ohio, oncoming traffic doesn't need to stop for a school bus on roads that are four or more lanes or on a divided highway. Maybe Florida's law is similar.\n\nBut if that fails, you are probably going to have to pay the ticket.
414347
NOPE!!!! All states allow officers to operate their radar or laser gun from inside or outside their car
792820
If you have never been ticketed before, you could very possibly get away with attending a defensive driving school and not pay the fine. DONT count on this, this is the best possible senario. \n\nMake sure you go to court on your date, and plead guilty and the judge will probably ask you if you can pay it that day. Tell him that you can pay some of it, but not all of it and he will probably give you a date to have it paid in full. \n\nAnother option would to be to call the county clerk's office (the number is on the back of the ticket) and ask their advice before your court date. They could have another option for you. \n\nI have personal experience because I have received a couple of tickets myself. I think the most it will cost you is $150 but I am guessing on the high end. The most I have paid for one was $125 and that was to keep it off my record so it was more expensive than usual. \n\nYou won't go to jail over a speeding ticket as long as you show up for court and you finish paying your fine as it is arranged. \n\nGood luck. The judge will probably go easy on you if this is your first. Just get it taken care of!
704259
It's a valid ticket inasmuch as it's a real ticket.\n\nThe inaccuracy, if present on the officer's copy of the ticket (and, presumedly, your copy, too), does present inaccuracies in the officer's version of the events.\n\nIf he read his watch wrong, how can we be sure he didn't read the speedometer wrong?  Or the radar gun?  This is what can be called "reasonable doubt"; especially if you can *TRUTHFULLY* testify that you weren't going the speed the officer cited you for.  (Or, in *certain* circumstances, that the speed you were going--regardless of the posted limit--was safe because of traffic flow, weather conditions, etc....)\n\nIf you have a fair judge, you may "beat" the ticket.\n\nOn the other hand, it can take quite a bit of time to adequately make a defense against a traffic ticket.  You *may* be better off just attending traffic school if you can.  (Bear in mind, that in many US states, if you go to trial and lose, you will *not* have the option of Traffic school....)
879867
Not sure what's "required" but what a good officer will provide?\n\n1. A copy of the ticket.\n2. A copy of your driving record.\n\nBeyond that, a good defense lawyer will ask for:\n\n1. A copy of the calibration record for the radar gun.  State Troopers are assigned one car with one gun, and they always have it.  County Police often show up without these records and judges (particularly in Northern Counties - near D.C.) are prone to throw the ticket out if the officer can't produce the records.\n\nBeyond that, nothing more.
729246
My friend got a reckless driving ticket and said you only have to go to court if you want to contest the ticket. You can chance that the cop won't show up but if he/she does then you'll still have to pay the ticket plus you'll have to pay the court fees. Despite going with the flow of traffic, the cop still had the right to give you a ticket. Just pay the ticket and go to traffic school and you'll be fine.
680561
It is possible that if the DA's office is cooperating with you, the court might grant a coram nobis petition.  I've never seen or heard of it in traffic, but it may happen.\n\nHowever, as you only have this one, last shot in a tricky area of law, be smart, spend the $400 and have an attorney do it, so it gets done right.\n\nThe reason you have to do the petition is that you did not do the "speeding ticket" in question right.  Had you done so, you wouldn't be in the fix you are now.
294930
Dont Speed - Then you wont have a ticket in the first place
809390
all you can do is tell the judge you're guilty. you'll have the option to take traffic school or not. it'll depend if your county let's you take online traffic school. some places won't let you. you have no choice then.
1037395
If in fact, the US Interstate Highway runs through the City at any point, that City Agency has jurisdiction.Not many agencies want to investigate the wrecks that take place on the Interstate, they would rather highway patrol/state troopers do this. But Radar and T Capping is normal. Watch on the Interstate as you approach the City's, as the speed limit will usually drop to 55 from the normal 70.