7 miles an hour over in South Florida ???  You got a ticket for that ??
 
WTF....if I only go 7 miles an hour over anywhere in SF I will get flattened by the cops and others driving 20 over the speed limit.
 
Of course if you were 7 over in my neighborhood you deserve the ticket...
 
JR

Linear Phase
 
56mph in a 45!!  
 
simply on my way home from my martial arts practice.
 
56 in a 45?  I think you could have let me off with a warning...

Maybe if you'd been on your way home from the grocery store you would have received a warning...?..

Guitarhacker
10% is not a reliable measure of fudging the numbers.
 
It's best to stay with traffic or slower..... any speed in a car sure beats walking or riding a moped limited to 35mph.  I use cruise control set to the limit. I have a friend who hasn't had a license in over 20 years due to traffic tickets and DUI...... moped rider....and even got a DUI on that several times.
 
Got a ticket?  hire a lawyer.... it's cheaper in the long run.  By the time you factor your time, court costs and fine, insurance points and premium increase over the next 3.5 years.... a lawyer is generally less than half that amount and you can walk away with a dismissed ticket....  I just went through this and the lawyer saved time and money..... 72 in a 55....  3 more and it could have been handcuffs.... one of those rare times I wasn't paying attention after coming off an interstate (not even 2 miles) with 70 as the limit.... same deal for my daughter.... 82 in a 70.... we both paid lawyers and got the tickets dismissed entirely.   Of course having a clean record to that point also helped....
 
not fun for sure..... but it happens...

I am curious, what were the grounds or argument to get the ticket dismissed?

turn down your overdrive ....:D

In GA, they usually don't even give you a second look if you aren't at least 10 mph over. However, on the interstate I always set my cruise on either 80 or 81 mph and never get stopped. I pass by the guy on the side of the road with his radar gun and keep going. They are looking for "super speeders" those going 85 or more and they are out there. Only on state roads and especially in small towns do I slow down to the limit. You never know about small town local cops. We have tw local towns who sometimes sit out on the interstate. One is profiling for drug runners, the other is there to make money. The former is not looking at speed, and the latter is looking for those going 85+.
Good luck, it was that last mph that got you.. still, you'd think that they would have something better to do.
 
J

Guitarhacker
10% is not a reliable measure of fudging the numbers.
 

In the UK, it used to be conventional wisdom that 10% over the speed limit wouldn't attract any attention from the boys in the blue. They certainly didn't accept fudge as a bribe or mitigation. Unless it was rum and raisin.

musicman100

Guitarhacker. we both paid lawyers and got the tickets dismissed entirely.   Of course having a clean record to that point also helped....
 
not fun for sure..... but it happens...

I am curious, what were the grounds or argument to get the ticket dismissed?

 
Several things:
1. previously clean driving record for many years .. in my daughters case, her first, in my case it had been 35 years.....
2. we took a safe driver's course registered in the state of the offense
3. we submitted a certified speedometer check indicating the actual speed of the vehicle did not match the indicated speed of the speedometer.
4. we hired a lawyer who knew the procedures and individuals in that court.
 
you figure out which one had the most influence on the dismissal.... in both my daughters case and in mine, nether of us had to appear at the court, and both were totally dropped. No points, no insurance points and while we had to pay the lawyers and the costs of court.... there was nothing attached to our records.  It wasn't cheap but it was half the cost of pleading guilty and taking the full charge, the license points, and the insurance premium hike for the next 3.5 years.
 
Because my daughter was over 80 mph in Virginia, it was a criminal misdemeanor charge had it been upheld by the judge, and as a result she would  not have been able to get into the program she is applying for in the health care industry.... it had her completely freaked out.  All's well, that ends well.
 
 

Guitarhacker 
 
previously clean driving record for many years .. in my daughters case, her first, in my case it had been 35 years.....
 
 

 
 
Dunno what it being a long time since you got caught committing the same offence should have to do with anything really. All it proves is that you haven't been caught for a long time, not that you didn't do it.

in Texas, taking a driver's course is enough to keep it off your points and you don't need a lawyer for that.  if it's been a while since your last ticket (I think it's 2 or 3 years) then you can take the drivers course and the points don't go on your record.  you still have to pay the fine and the cost of the course, but those are less than the cost of a lawyer anyway.
 
but that's TX only.

Here in good old La, several towns and villages have "incorporated" the interstate exchanges as part of their domicile .
When normally you would be clocked by a state trooper and receive a ticket(which is bad enough its whatever the parish fine is., and that varies by parish), the town or village cop hides out at the exchange and will ticket you, with the towns fines tacked on to the parish, and make you pay at the town hall.
The following towns are notorious for this
TICKFAW
GOLDEN MEADOW
BUNKIE
to name but a few
 
BTW Golden Meadow is 1 mile over the limit and they clock right at the 35 mph sign, so you know to slow down well before the change of limit zone, and the 1 mph over is a big fine