Speeding ticket marked wrong over by 10mph? opinions?!?
I recieved a speeding ticket earlier this month. I was cited for going 70 in a 50.
I was on the freeway which is clearly marked as 60.
(in washington state)
Also.. the person in the vehicle in front of me was going faster than I was. We were both in the left passing lane. He however was not stopped.
What do you think will happen in court?
Dismissed? Lowered? Or found guitly?
My Court dates in over a month and I’m tired of stressing over this and would like opinions on what I should do and what may happen.
Cops can’t stop more than one vehicle at a time. They cannot clock more than one vehicle at a time. You say the other vehicle wasn’t stopped like it was somehow possible at all…if the cop stopped you, how could he stop another car too? There isn’t always another cruiser down the road to call it out to, in fact, most of the time there is not. You weren’t singled out, it was luck of the draw.
Judges do not care to hear that any other vehicle on the road was speeding. They hear it at every speeding hearing, and it has no relevance to your particular case at all. Think about it, pick another type of crime and then use the same defense. “Well the guy right next to me was murdering someone too!” What someone else was doing has nothing to do with what you were doing. Mentioning it in court will not help you. Please don’t think that I want to be rude, I’m just being candid.
Where you got pulled over at is not the same place your speed was timed, so you were probably going through a 50mph zone when clocked but in a 60mph zone when you were stopped.
If there was no 50mph zone nearby (remember that there are reduced speeds during construction zones, intersections, bends in the road, etc where it may only be reduced for a short distance), then you cannot be convicted of going 20 over. You can still be convicted of doing 10 over, even if it is marked wrong on the ticket. Embarrassing to the officer, sure, but it is not a defense. He may even amend it before your hearing.
A 10-over ticket is not terrible, and it may not even affect your insurance rates. You can ask the officer (or the judge) if you can plead to 5 over, which will have a smaller fine and probably no points.
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