Damn. Speeding ticket...

[kwando]

if you speed a lot do yourself a favor and buy a valentine one radar detector when i used to speed it saved me SO many times

This! I have one but I don't speed anymore so if you are interested PM me.

[Dave_L]

After getting multiple 12 point racing tickets, losing my license for 7 months, paying a lot of money to a lawyer, I now drive like a grandpa. VERY rarely do I even go 5 over. Feels good to not slam on my brakes when I see a cop shooting radar.

[Goodburbon]

I will say I've never received a speeding ticket I didn't deserve. I think of it as a velocity tax.

I never mind paying a ticket I deserve.

However the last 2 I've gotten have me miffed. for the following reasons.

1. I'm not a speed demon anymore. There was a time in my youth when I was going 90 or nothin'. Now if I speed it's on open road and less than 5mph over.

2. The first one, officer lied. I was NOT speeding by 6 over, I was slowing down coming into town, and meeting speeds as they stepped down. The officer pulled me over, told me I was going 46 in a 40, that I was wrong there was no 45mph zone. It was his town, I told him "It's your town and you know it better than I do" and signed the ticket. My next time through town I double checked. There WAS a 45 zone. I ALWAYS try to go the speed limit in town, and it annoys the crap out of me when people I've passed on the open road pass me in town at the same speed they were going on the highway. It downright pisses me off when I get the ticket...

3. When I was 18 I got a ticket for 96 in a 55. It was $220. The ticket Monday was for going 36mph....and I certainly didn't think I deserved it, I was just cruising with my wife and kid and waving to a cop...

4. My neighbor got busted for 90 in a 55 and driving erratically...He gets let off. He gets busted for going 85 in a 55, it's a $40 ticket, no points... IN A 1 TON.

[Goodburbon]

Speaking of points...how do they work?

I've never gotten a point before, no idea how they work, what they mean, when they go away etc.

[Dave_L]

The points work for a 2 year period. They are as follows:

Age 16-18=6 points in 1 year, 8 points in 2 years.
Age 18-21=8 points in 1 year, 12 points in 2 years.
21+=12 points in 1 year, 18 points in 2 years.

At least that's how it was when I was getting my first hand experience. The younger bracket may be different now with all the young driver laws.

[blacklabel]

After getting multiple 12 point racing tickets, losing my license for 7 months, paying a lot of money to a lawyer, I now drive like a grandpa. VERY rarely do I even go 5 over. Feels good to not slam on my brakes when I see a cop shooting radar.

I hear that. It took one 26 point ticket to break me of speeding. The only time I'll cross the speed limit is if I'm passing someone and that rarely happens as I'm usually doing 2-3 under the speed limit.

[tmleadr03]

I never mind paying a ticket I deserve.

However the last 2 I've gotten have me miffed. for the following reasons.

1. I'm not a speed demon anymore. There was a time in my youth when I was going 90 or nothin'. Now if I speed it's on open road and less than 5mph over.

2. The first one, officer lied. I was NOT speeding by 6 over, I was slowing down coming into town, and meeting speeds as they stepped down. The officer pulled me over, told me I was going 46 in a 40, that I was wrong there was no 45mph zone. It was his town, I told him "It's your town and you know it better than I do" and signed the ticket. My next time through town I double checked. There WAS a 45 zone. I ALWAYS try to go the speed limit in town, and it annoys the crap out of me when people I've passed on the open road pass me in town at the same speed they were going on the highway. It downright pisses me off when I get the ticket...

3. When I was 18 I got a ticket for 96 in a 55. It was $220. The ticket Monday was for going 36mph....and I certainly didn't think I deserved it, I was just cruising with my wife and kid and waving to a cop...

4. My neighbor got busted for 90 in a 55 and driving erratically...He gets let off. He gets busted for going 85 in a 55, it's a $40 ticket, no points... IN A 1 TON.

Lightweight. I got pulled over in my younger days while doing 170 in a 70.

There is a reason I pulled the plates off my sport bike and only road on the track.

[Great-Kazoo]

One small problem I see here- you mailed it in, so too late for that, but people seem to always do that because they see it could be a good thing to just take the reduced points. 9/10 times the ADA will work with you if you go to court (not to fight it)... Since working in the insurance world I've been lucky to not get popped (knock on wood) but I learned that regardless of what the offense is (unless it's a major- 20+, reckless, etc) it's still a moving violation and will make your insurance rates go up, so I intend to go to court and ask that if they're going to reduce it to a 2 pt ticket, make it a non-moving violation so my insurance doesn't go up on me. Win-win either way, they get their money (which is really what they're after) and your insurance doesn't get dicked up. My advice, try for illegally parked or something trivial like that.

What use to work does not any more. The bottom line is REVENUE You have it the .gov wants it.
EVERY TICKET WRITTEN TODAY all comes with the Caveat. IF YOU send this in it gets reduced to 2 points. The fine is 2-3x what going to court would cost BUT the State / city / county only wants your money. Be it 10 over or 25 I know from "someone who knows someone who got a ticket"

That same person may have received an 18pt speeding [50 over in a 55] and the cop said. Tell ya what i'll suggest they reduce it to 2 points and a driving class. When asked "why even write the ticket" He says. IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY, HAVE A GOOD DAY.

[brobar]

Just got nailed going 15 over. 4 points and 169 bucks. If I just send the money it is 2 points. Two things are clear to me after this.


1) I really need to register this car, been driving it for three months now with no plates and I just narrowly missed getting it impounded today.
2) Clearly what saved me previously on speeding tickets was the Ooh-Rah Marine Licence plate I had. Back to point one.


Meh, I will take care of it next week. Never put off tomorrow what you can put off today.

Was it the Sheriff's dept who clocked ya? You gotta watch those business parks over in DTC and Centennial areas. My wife got clocked doing 47 in a 35 over in the Centennial Technology Place by a Sheriff's deputy (Sheriff's dept is in the same technology area just south of there). He was parked just on the other side of a hill so nobody could see him while driving up the hill and they are picking up speed going down the hill before they notice him. No excuses... she was speeding and got caught. It just sucks because it was her last week of rotations in that area. Oh well.

[cofi]

Lightweight. I got pulled over in my younger days while doing 170 in a 70.

There is a reason I pulled the plates off my sport bike and only road on the track.

best i did was 141 in a 65 in my old corrado