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Driving down Island Creek Road to Pollocksville. I was behind the undercover cop car for awhile with some distance and we both were doing 65 because my cruise control was set. He slowed down to 55 and then immediately slammed on his brakes and took to the shoulder. It scared me and I moved to the other oncoming lane to avoid him. He then immediately pulled me over.
My questions is really what are my options?
I was doing no more than 65, I was following the officer so he was doing close to 65 at the time. He said he got me with rear radar and gave me a ticket for 67 in a 55. The officer said he was doing the speed limit.
The ticket says medium traffic but No one was on that road.....three people went by in the 10 minutes it took for him to give me the ticket.
Is there anyway to get out of this?
How much would this effect my insurance if I have no tickets on record?
The road is a county road that is pretty curvy and 55 mph, not much traffic at the time but everyone either goes slow on it or goes 10 over. there really is no between and its unsafe mainly because of slow drivers and people trying to pass them.
Last edited by datman; 11-13-2014 at 08:14 AM..
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Driving down Island Creek Road to Pollocksville. I was behind the undercover cop car for awhile with some distance and we both were doing 65 because my cruise control was set. He slowed down to 55 and then immediately slammed on his brakes and took to the shoulder. It scared me and I moved to the other oncoming lane to avoid him. He then immediately pulled me over.
My questions is really what are my options?
I was doing no more than 65, I was following the officer so he was doing close to 65 at the time. He said he got me with rear radar and gave me a ticket for 67 in a 55. The officer said he was doing the speed limit.
The ticket says medium traffic but No one was on that road.....three people went by in the 10 minutes it took for him to give me the ticket.
Is there anyway to get out of this?
How much would this effect my insurance if I have no tickets on record?
The road is a county road that is pretty curvy and 55 mph, not much traffic at the time but everyone either goes slow on it or goes 10 over. there really is no between and its unsafe mainly because of slow drivers and people trying to pass them.
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Originally Posted by tdm51
Hire a lawyer. The cost of a lawyer is less than the long term insurance problems.
The title of your post claims entrapment, you were speeding, you admitted it. Now follow tdm51's advice.
WFW&P - I was over 55 yea, your missing the point of what I am asking. I was below 65 (<10 mph) following a cop on a curvy two lane highway and he was doing the same. so your telling me its perfectly legal for him to drive around at such a speed and then give me a ticket for it.
I never get tickets and I have had friends talk about "entrapment" that if your driving down the road and a cop is in front of you, he cannot then pull around and pull you over when your doing the same thing he is. Officers are by law required to do the speed limit unless situation requires. So if a cop is doing 60 down a 55 and your behind him, it is entrapment if he does it.
I know a close friend who got out of a ticket, almost identical to this one.
WFW&P - I was over 55 yea, your missing the point of what I am asking. I was below 65 (<10 mph) following a cop on a curvy two lane highway and he was doing the same. so your telling me its perfectly legal for him to drive around at such a speed and then give me a ticket for it.
I never get tickets and I have had friends talk about "entrapment" that if your driving down the road and a cop is in front of you, he cannot then pull around and pull you over when your doing the same thing he is. Officers are by law required to do the speed limit unless situation requires. So if a cop is doing 60 down a 55 and your behind him, it is entrapment if he does it.
I know a close friend who got out of a ticket, almost identical to this one.
Regardless of right and wrong, you will find yourself hard pressed to convince the judge. Hire a lawyer, seriously. Its only a couple hundred bucks.
I think your friend has no idea what they are talking about regarding entrapment. Get an attorney or try for a PJC and traffic school. Claiming entrament will not work here.
65 in a 55 is not entrapment, you were speeding. Pay the lawyer his $200+or- and be done with it.
I got caught the same way a few years back and yes it feels like entrapment but lawyers need money and so does the state and that's how the game is played.
WFW&P - I was over 55 yea, your missing the point of what I am asking. I was below 65 (<10 mph) following a cop on a curvy two lane highway and he was doing the same. so your telling me its perfectly legal for him to drive around at such a speed and then give me a ticket for it.
He's a cop. It's perfectly legal for him to give you a ticket any time you're breaking the law. It ain't complicated.
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I never get tickets and I have had friends talk about "entrapment" that if your driving down the road and a cop is in front of you, he cannot then pull around and pull you over when your doing the same thing he is.
I am not a lawyer and I would suggest that you talk to one instead of taking advice from your friends. This doesn't even come close to passing the sniff test.
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Officers are by law required to do the speed limit unless situation requires.
Technically true, but irrelevant if you're breaking the law too.
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I know a close friend who got out of a ticket, almost identical to this one.
If that's true, I'd wager it's because your friend had a good lawyer and/or a sympathetic judge, not anything to do with "entrapment". It would be entrapment if the cop said "follow me, I need your help with an emergency" and then pulled you over for speeding.
The thing sticking out to me is he said he got you on radar. If he was driving in front of you, he didn't get you on radar. Radar measure the relative speed, which would be about 0 in that case. It doesn't make much difference though. Just get a lawyer and get it reduced.
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