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You are not likely to get out of the ticket. You can probably avoid a higher insurance premium by doing traffic school.
For future reference, the best way to avoid a ticket (besides the obvious of not speeding in the first place!) is being polite to the cop. If you are calm and polite they may waive the ticket or reduce the ticket from a higher fine to a lower one. If you freak out and start expecting them to apologize to you then no one is going to feel sorry for you.
The cops here have been having problems because they have not fully identified their guns or equipment used in determining your speed. Seems if they don't fully identify it. people have been getting the tickets thrown out. Good luck.
I find the mentality that cops should give us outrageous tickets in order that a city can meet its budget to be vulgar.
Then put the cops out of business....obey the law!! That argument is so illogical.
I got a bogus ticket for making a lawful left-turn. I fought it and won. But then again, I was actually innocent, because as I said it was lawful and I was able to prove it.
But some speeders who can afford attorneys or who know tricks in the law sometimes do get off even when they're guilty. More inequality!!
I decided I want to write a letter to this officer. Any advice?
Yes, don't. You were speeding, you got a ticket. These things happen.
The officer didn't have it in for you. He'd have rather remained comfortable in his car than spent time writing your ticket.
Regardless of your personal financial circumstances you were in the wrong.
Suck it up, pay your fine, request traffic school so your insurance rates don't go up, and employ the self discipline required to begin your commute 10mins earlier so you don't get any more speeding tickets.
I decided I want to write a letter to this officer. Any advice?
The officer is not going to care. If you feel you are innocent, then you need to fight it in court or by a trial of written declaration. That is what I did. Once the ticket is in the system, the officer can't do anything about it, but be a character witness for you, and from what you wrote, I don't expect that to happen.
You are not likely to get out of the ticket. You can probably avoid a higher insurance premium by doing traffic school.
For future reference, the best way to avoid a ticket (besides the obvious of not speeding in the first place!) is being polite to the cop. If you are calm and polite they may waive the ticket or reduce the ticket from a higher fine to a lower one. If you freak out and start expecting them to apologize to you then no one is going to feel sorry for you.
Well I know now to just stop and not to freak out. And politely try to reason. I did write him a letter and was very polite in that. And I prayed over it.
Well I know now to just stop and not to freak out. And politely try to reason. I did write him a letter and was very polite in that. And I prayed over it.
May I ask what exactly it is you are contesting? Is it the fact that you were speeding or what? I am a bit confused.
Well I know now to just stop and not to freak out. And politely try to reason. I did write him a letter and was very polite in that. And I prayed over it.
Did you also pray for forgivenses for speeding? Or are you actually innocent?
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That argument is so illogical.
