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I got a speeding ticket today driving home from work in Raleigh on I-40. I have not had a ticket in about 10 years.
My question is about convenience court. Can I use it for my type of offense? Should I use it? The website says "You must intend to plead responsible and pay your ticket on the day you appear".
On other parts of the site it says they don't accept checks or credit cards. How am I supposed to know how much to pay? It is not listed on my ticket.
Also, when the trooper walked back to my car and gave me the ticket he asked what year my car was. Why does this matter?
I just want to take care of this quickly and with the least amount of cost/legal problems.
I got a speeding ticket today driving home from work in Raleigh on I-40. I have not had a ticket in about 10 years.
My question is about convenience court. Can I use it for my type of offense? Should I use it? The website says "You must intend to plead responsible and pay your ticket on the day you appear".
On other parts of the site it says they don't accept checks or credit cards. How am I supposed to know how much to pay? It is not listed on my ticket.
Also, when the trooper walked back to my car and gave me the ticket he asked what year my car was. Why does this matter?
I just want to take care of this quickly and with the least amount of cost/legal problems.
Thanks!
Let me give you some good advice. Get a lawyer and pay him the $250 it will take to get this reduced to a non-moving violation, like no horn. Otherwise, you will probably lose your license, your insurance rates will go up and stay up for 6 years and you will have to still pay a fine.
Let me give you some good advice. Get a lawyer and pay him the $250 it will take to get this reduced to a non-moving violation, like no horn. Otherwise, you will probably lose your license, your insurance rates will go up and stay up for 6 years and you will have to still pay a fine.
$250 well spent.
Good advice. Happened to my husband - TWICE!. He learned his lesson and now drives the posted speed.
Yeah....you were going 22mph over the limit so the DA will probably throw the book at you without a lawyer. I'm thinking it's going to cost you more like $450 though....$250 to fix something like this seems too low.
I just had a similar situation in South Carolina. I usually don't speed but I was driving hubby's car which is way larger than mine and just didn't notice that I was going that fast.
I was going 83 in a 70. My insurance guy said to get an attorney and it will at least go down to 79 (anything over 80 seems to be a big deal).
My insurance guy said if I just paid the ticket (listed at $85 on back of ticket), my insurance would go up for 6 years and I would end up paying about $1600 over those 6 years.
I hired an attorney for $300, $145 in court costs for a total of $445.
I just had a similar situation in South Carolina. I usually don't speed but I was driving hubby's car which is way larger than mine and just didn't notice that I was going that fast.
Vicki
Yeah...I have to watch that too. The speed will creep up on you in these newer cars and sometimes you don't realize how fast you're going until you check the speedometer...hopefully before the blue lights are behind you.
Is anyone else sick reading this? The fact that you have to pay an attorney to get your speed lowered. I dunno. Why would a lawyer be able to reduce the ticket? What do they do? What do they say? Can a regular Joe walk in there and do the same?
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