Deferring Speeding Ticket

PULSEofdaNATION

PULSEofdaNATION

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So as I was making my cross the state travel today to get ready to watch a college football game tomorrow, I got pulled over for going 75 in a 60. The cop was going the other direction, pulled a u-turn, pulled me over, and then pulled another u-turn to go the direction he was originally going in.

He tagged me with a $144 ticket and the courthouse he told me to send all of the information to is about 3 hours away from my house.

This is my first speeding ticket and I have had my license for 2 years and about 10 months. Should I try to get it deferred, so it doesn't go on my record or should I just pay the ticket and deal with my insurance going up a bit??
 
Try to get it off of your record, i got a ticket for 15 over and i just had to pay a bigger fine and it was off my record as long as i didnt get a ticket in the next 6 months
 
do they even defer speeding tickets?

your best bet is to change the court date as many times as possible and hope the cop doesnt show up
 
it depends, while you where speeding, you could see if the cop put a speed that was excessive on your ticket. if you see that then you can take it to court and get the ticket changed to properly reflect the speed, or, if you wanted to really try you could probably argue that the officers moving in the other direction affected his judgment of your speed, that might get the ticket wiped. but nothing is for sure.
 
if you have a clean driving record you probably have a good shot at getting it deferred. you will have to not get any other moving violations (things like parking tickets dont matter) for 6 months, and then write the judge and it will vanish. its nice because then your car insurance doesnt skyrocket.
 
presumably to issue a ticket he would have to be using radar, not just surmising how fast he thought the car was moving
 
thats true, but you could argue that the radar is not a reliable tool with speed variations, unless the radar is attached to a digital speedometer and corrects its readings to account for that speed difference, then I think you would be able to void the ticket rather easily. if you think about it

(speed of the ticketed car)+(speed of cruiser)= the sum of both

say, that the ticked car is moving at 70 mp/h and that the cruiser is moving at the same rate, in the opposite direction. with that the speed that the speedometer reads would be 135 mp/h.

you could then argue that the officer was probably not looking directly at his speedometer right when he saw the reading of the radar. the natural reaction when you take your eyes off the road would be to slow down, thus. If the officer looked at his radar for 1 second and slowed from 65 mph to 58 mph (not hard at a higher speed, due to friction) before he looked at the speedometer, then you could see that the number goes from 135-65 = 70mph (10 over limit) to 135-58 = 77 mph. in reality the variation could be much larger or slightly smaller, either way, the worst the court can do is make you pay the ticket in full. which you would definitely have to do if you do not try and contest it.

Just be sure to use math to back up your point, numbers cannot lie.
 
I was going 45 in a 30 but went to court to get it deferred. The cop said since my record was clean he would defer it. Just show up, confess and hope the cop forgives you. Ended up paying $230 still, $200 for the ticket and $30 as a mandatory 'donation'.
 
Your logic might work, but not to be a dick, my dad handles tickets all the time, and when he gets ones that people try proving with math equations, they just sort of laugh. The radar used is so precise now-a-days, those math equations no longer work. Many years ago you could say that, but not now. Everything is computerized. Well depending on where you live I guess, some areas might not be as advanced if you got the ticket in a small remote country area, but chances are the radar is accurate. So advice would be just go to the court, or if its too far, call an attorney to try to get it reduced.
 
yea the concept that the guns aren't accurate is a bit dated. I have an old one sitting around my house, and while fun to play with, under less than ideal circumstances it starts to get less reliable.

These days the guns themselves are usually lasers (they can track multiple vehicles very specifically, not a point and read like the old radar guns which could get multiple readings from every car in sight.
 
Literally the EXACT same thing happened to me the other day; except the cop dropped my speed from a 75 to a 65 in a 50, he then forgot to put a charge amount on my ticket so I just have to pay the minimum of 41$....cised.
 
Exactly, so chances are, unless OP was traveling in maybe the middle of North Dakota, or Niger, then the radar is probably accurate
 
And i meant to say before I posted that thats pretty sweet you have a radar gun, how high can it get? Like can you clock airplanes? That would be dope haha
 
its dangerous contesting the ticket because they can charge you more if you don't have a real reason. I wouldn't just go and hope that the cop doesn't show up unless you feel like you have a legitimate point as to why you shouldn't have gotten it in the first place.
 
never tried a plane actually. I'll definitely have to attempt that sometime when I get home. We did get a blimp once, but it was pretty low, and going slow as hell.

always fun to have on a road trip. Plug it into the cigarette lighter and take bets. Plus you'll notice everyone in front/around you slowing down a bit.
 
ha I'm waiting til the station my father works out of retires the laser ones. Hopefully he can snag one of them. Thats how we got the old one...police station was getting new ones, and he just happened to have one of the old ones in the cruiser the day they arrived, so he brought it home.
 
defer the ticket, the cost of your insurance going up (particularly for a younger male driver) will definitely exceed the 150$ deferral fee in the long run
 
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