22350 CA Speeding Ticket

[TimeFor]

*First Off, please don't post saying I shouldn't haven’t been speeding... That’s not helpful.

Alright. So here it is. 78 in a 50... Ouch, I know. :cry: It happened on the Jan 2nd and I still haven't received the ticket in the mail. My date to appear in court is Feb 17th.

Now the only thing I'm hoping for is that the office doesn't show up. Dose that work? Ive never gotten a ticket before so I'm going off just what I've heard. If the officer doesn't show, I get off right?

Next, what can I even say? 78 in a 50. I wasn't going that fast? Sure I was speeding.... But more like 60 in a 50. Not 78. I haven't got the ticket yet so I have no idea what it is going to cost. But I want it cheap as I can get it.

Also, if I contest it in court... and lose. Can I still go to traffic school to keep the point off my record. That’s the biggest thing. With a BMW, Prius, And Jaguar on my insurance... I can't afford a increase.

[myride]

*First Off, please don't post saying I shouldn't haven’t been speeding... That’s not helpful.

Alright. So here it is. 78 in a 50... Ouch, I know. :cry: It happened on the Jan 2nd and I still haven't received the ticket in the mail. My date to appear in court is Feb 17th.

Now the only thing I'm hoping for is that the office doesn't show up. Dose that work? Ive never gotten a ticket before so I'm going off just what I've heard. If the officer doesn't show, I get off right?

Next, what can I even say? 78 in a 50. I wasn't going that fast? Sure I was speeding.... But more like 60 in a 50. Not 78. I haven't got the ticket yet so I have no idea what it is going to cost. But I want it cheap as I can get it.

Also, if I contest it in court... and lose. Can I still go to traffic school to keep the point off my record. That’s the biggest thing. With a BMW, Prius, And Jaguar on my insurance... I can't afford a increase.

first let me say the law might differ in your state. as for me id go into court and hope the officer is a NO show. then u can get the judge to dismiss ur case and u will pay the court cost. its cheaper than your ticket. if he shows you can argue and ask for trial by jury. it cost the court so much money to do this its almost unheard of. they will request that you pay court cost and they will in turn dismiss it. or as a last option you can ask for defered adjudafaction. kinda like parol for so many months. if u go the time required without any more tickets then its dismissed and you only pay court cost. or take a defensive driving cource. Now as for the speed....... iv got you beat. i know for a fact the Prius will do triple digits with ease. so there is no ""i told you so"" here, only i know where your coming from.

[Robert Taylor]

Appeals are routinely dismissed.

You lose the first round, put up the money for the appeal.

That is the way it is in Madison County Alabama.

Where you are, I have no clue. Call the clerk of the court, ask for the grand total for the amount including all costs. Find out the options, officially. Then work on the unofficial options. Network. Scrounge information. Call your insurance agent, have a candid conversation so you know exactly what you need to do and the consequences. Knowing is better than not knowing.

And I got a 97 in a 55 zone once. I think I still have the paperwork somewhere on it.

[TimeFor]

you know the funny thing about this... I speed everywhere in my cars. Never been pulled over.... never had any trouble. This happened the day I got back from New York. When my dad dropped me off at the airport, we took my Prius. He somehow killed the battery so it was completely dead when I got back. While the battery was being charged, I took his car to church. It’s a GS430. Ands its just a little too fast. I don’t care for the speed as much as I like the feeling when you push the gas. And…. Welll… It seems I pushed the gas at the wrong time.

[myride]

Appeals are routinely dismissed.

You lose the first round, put up the money for the appeal.

That is the way it is in Madison County Alabama.

Where you are, I have no clue. Call the clerk of the court, ask for the grand total for the amount including all costs. Find out the options, officially. Then work on the unofficial options. Network. Scrounge information. Call your insurance agent, have a candid conversation so you know exactly what you need to do and the consequences. Knowing is better than not knowing.

And I got a 97 in a 55 zone once. I think I still have the paperwork somewhere on it.

Just for the record.... i was coming back from New Mexico on I-10 a few hours west of SanAntonio minding my own business. had no seen a soul in forever. look in the rear view and nothing. a couple mins later look back again and i can see a police cruiser screaming in on me. i let off the gas and sure enough he stops me. it turns out he was going the other way on the freeway and seen me hauling butt. he had to go down almost 7 miles to the next turn-a-round. then get up to warp speed to catch me. from the time he seen me till he stopped me was....ahem.... 12 mins. he was so pissed and yelling mad about me and the under side of the jail house that i knew for sure i was going to be clubbed into a pulp. then he seen all the ""support your local police officer"" stickers and the ""100 dollar club "" he let me off with a $100 fine for speeding (70 in a 60 mph) he asked me how fast i was going and like a scared little boy i answered "only 130mph Mr. Officer". damit if he didn't laugh as he walked away.and no it was not in the prius... 93 camary with the 3.0 v6 and super charger. dam i miss it now. O btw... the point to this speech is not how fast u go its how you deal with your tickets. because it was out of my normal area i called the clerk and asked for deferment on the grounds he never clocked me or paced me or anything like that. also the fact he lost sight of me for so many minuets it helped me and they dropped it after i sent them a copy of my driver liscence report from the state showing my spotless record. cost me 16 for the report and 4 to send it to them. not bad for cutting almost 3 hours off my return trip.

[Robert Taylor]

Oh yeah, I matters a great deal how you handle being stopped.

Hey, I'm lucky I did not get some nickel plated bracelets and sent to a steel cage for awhile.

Ever try to hide a six pack under a seat of a Monte Carlo?

Gee, I was afraid I was going to breath his way. Some incredulous Tennessee State Trooper greeted me with a 'what the hell are you doing 97 miles an hour for?'

Digging my toe into the ground, I dug my hands into my pockets and looked sheeplishy downcast as I said, On the way to see my girlfriend. Yeah, a multi state jaunt where I was merrily quaffing a beer in the car. Going to my ladies college.

Gosh, it was actually true but frankly I really didn't want to blow Stroh fumes his way...

He said, after a little reflection, I could do a whole lot worse, but I'm letting you off with a regular ticket.

I showed that paperwork around the office with youthful pride.

[tag]

...Sure I was speeding.... But more like 60 in a 50. Not 78.

One point here ----> DO NOT USE THAT ARGUMENT! It fails each and every time.....stating you were doing 60, rather than 78, in a 50 is an admission of guilt (i.e. you were still exceeding the speed limit).

Of utmost importance is keeping that ticket off your record (obviously) so do whatever you can to make that happen.

[Sufferin' Prius Envy]

*First Off, please don't post saying I shouldn't haven’t been speeding... That’s not helpful.
Alright. So here it is. 78 in a 50... Ouch, I know. :cry:

Boy, how the phrase “78 in a 50" fired off some brain cells which laid dormant for over 25 years!

A gal pal of mine was on her way home from college for the Christmas holiday. She figured if she would push the speed she would make it home in time for [I don’t remember what], but at that time it was important to her . . . besides it was a two lane country road out in the middle of nowhere, the weather was nice, and traffic almost non existent. She pushed her new little MG sports car her daddy bought her as a HS graduation gift like she never had before . . . and oh how she loved speed! Of course she was pulled over a few miles later (why else would I be writing this).

As hard as this stunningly beautiful 18 year old Italian blooded filly tried, Lori could not convince the officer to let her off with a warning or reduce the radar clocked speed on the ticket. The officer must have been: 1) Totally 100% by the book. 2) Having a really bad day. Or, 3) Gay . . . because for the year and a half I had known her, I had watched her get her way with every guy, talk her way out of situations (and oh how she loved doing that!), and generally be treated like a Hollywood starlet.

In the ten minutes or so that it took the officer to write the ticket, she sat there and contemplated the ramifications. She figured, “So What!” Her first ticket. Daddy will pay it and maybe give her a “daddy’s little girl” lecture and not say another word.

About a week later when we met up, she told me: “The last childish thought I had was when the officer handed me the ticket and I read - “78 in a 50" - I thought, BIG DEAL, life goes on!” She said as she was just finishing that thought she heard an extremely loud - “my life is in danger” - sound of a very close, very serious car crash. Her car shook from the impact.

A car coming the opposite direction had slowed down to see what was going on and was rear ended by a drunk driver going over 90 MPH. In the car which was hit was a mother and her eight year old daughter on their way to do some Christmas shopping. Both mother and daughter were ejected from what was left of their car. The mother was killed on impact. The daughter had a broken arm and leg and had a deep cut on her forehead.

Lori was devastated. And I really do mean DEVASTATED. It had taken her about 5 minutes to fight through the tears and emotions to finish her “last childish thought” sentence. She said the saddest thing was seeing the daughter on her knees, bent over, hugging her mother, and bleeding on her. Lori blamed herself for somehow causing this pathetic scene. She had terrible nightmares for months. She also gave up her car and vowed not to drive again until she graduated from college and was mature enough to handle the responsibility.

I could tell you without a doubt that at that moment, Lori was mature enough to drive . . . way mature enough . . . way more than she ever should have been at Eighteen. The child in her had died. I missed that childish side of her.

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*First Off, please don\'t post saying I shouldn\'t haven’t been speeding... That’s not helpful.
Alright. So here it is. 78 in a 50... Ouch, I know. :cry:

<span style=\'color:blue\'> No TimeFor, you don\'t know.
Maybe it\'s "Time For" you to grow-up.
You have no idea how lucky you are to get bye with just a ticket.

One sure sign of immaturity is not standing up to the consequences of one’s actions.
Another is blatantly dismissing good advice as “not helpful.”

And for all of you on this thread giving advice to a 19 year old kid on how to beat the system, SHAME ON YOU! Someday TimeFor may just be that prick in a BMW or Jaguar that rear ends you or a loved one while doing 78 in a 50. (Somehow I doubt it was the Prii he was speeding in . . . knowing it’s calming affect it has on most drivers. But that is besides the point.)

And we wonder what is wrong with society these days.

[Ms. Piggy]

Eloquently put, Patrick, I could not agree with you more.

[TonyPSchaefer]

I'm going to try and steer clear of addressing anyone or anything directly, but:
If you have never seen two cars collide and bodies eject, you have no idea what accidents REALLY look like.
If you have never been the first person on the scene, you can't imagine the smell.
If you have never been feeling for a pulse, you can't imagine how slowly time can pass.
If you think that when you zip in and out of traffic, you are not affecting the other people around you, you are sorely mistaken.
If you think that cars traveling at more than 40 mph simply bump off each other or the driver always walks away just like in the video games, I feel nothing but absolute anger about the person who will die in the accident you caused.

While in high school, three friends and were driving along a deserted stretch of highway. A quarter mile ahead a car was approaching. Nothing unusual. From an intersection emmerged a truck that didn't even bother to slow down and smacked the car right in the side. Within seconds, we were out of my car and checking on the victims. Even though everyone in the car was wearing their seatbelts, a married couple in the car died, four children were orphaned, four parents lost a son and a daughter. Neither truck occupants were wearing a seatbelt, both were ejected but survived even though we saved them for last to check on.

That's one of three accidents that I've been unfortunate enough to have witnessed first-hand.

I don't mind so much when people drive drunk or speed wrecklessly and weave around through traffic. Just as long as they kill each other and leave the rest of us alone. I hate nothing more than when I watch the news and hear about the drunk driver killing a father. Or the ricer who cut off a semi that swerved into the minivan.

Sorry for the rant, but I do enjoy my life and hate that I have to always be watching for the truck that's going to come out of a blind intersection to kill me.