Fighting my Speeding Ticket

kuruzero

Just my 2 cents...

Actually "technically" he has broken the law because the determination of what is reasonable or prudent isn't decided by him... No offense but I'm in court almost every week and that defense will get the typical eye roll thats nice, here's your fine from the judge.

The traffic ticket lawyers charge so little bc the business model is client volume and by getting fines slightly decreased or getting traffic school/defensive driving classes set up (which anyone can easily do themselves by simply calling and talking to a clerk). The most being done for first offenses and good driving records. Tickets are very rarely outright dismissed and rarely do officers not show up to court as most jurisdiction issue automatic HR write ups for not showing to court. Traffic ticket firms are just as much a racket as speed traps.

Personally, as half the drivers I go past are on their phones nowadays, Im fine with the 60-75 mph on most hwys I drive as I dont trust society as a whole to be responsible enough to have a 80mph limit, which in practicality means everyone would really be going 80-90mph without consequence. The autobahn mortality rates vs US hwys debate has very little to do with speed. Replace their situation with our factors and their rates would quickly increase. Actually the large majority of autobahn deaths do happen on the stretches without limits vs the stretches with limits so this doesnt exactly bolster most arguments.

OP, I agree fight the ticket if you'd like but dont expect to come out clean and without spending money regardless. Not likely with your record a judge is just going to scrub the ticket, thats its you get to go home without paying out. And for someone with double digit speeding tickets, you either still havent learned the smart way to speed like the rest of us hah, you're under 25, or those tickets are spread out thru decades of driving. Im assuming its not the latter... You gotta pay to play...