Contesting speeding ticket

denaman · 2006-10-14T13:53:56+00:00

I really was speeding. There's no doubt about that. I was busytalking to my wife and completely spaced the speed limit drop from 45to 30.Got an eight-two dollar ticket, and was prepared to shove it into theenvelope when I noticed that the car was all wrong. The plate he getsright. He also nails the color. But the rest doesn't remotelyresemble my car. He claims I'm driving a 2000 4-door Honda. In fact,my car is half a decade older -- a 1995 Chevy Cavalier. So my idea wasI would go in there and contest the ticket on the grounds that thisticket obviously belongs to the guy driving the Honda.Anyone have any experience where a disreprency on a ticket has voidedit or reduced the penalty? I've always heard these stories of peoplecontesting tickets on rather flimsy grounds and winning, but wasn'tsure if these were old wives tales (usually the guys who tell me thatonly a fool would pay a speeding ticket are the same ones who claim wecould run our car engines off water if it weren't for an oil companyconspiracy).It's one of those things. To contest the ticket I have to take offwork and drive half an hour to the court house. I would still come outa little ahead if I actually recouped my 82 dollars, but if I lost thanI'd really loose.Anyway, if anyone has experience in these matters I'd appreciate theinsight.Birna

Oct 14, 2006 21 Replies

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ed 19 years ago

at least go fight the thing and get the fine reduced and taker a chance the cop wont appear. I say if he got everything else wrong, how do we know he didnt clock a differant car, but was able to catch up to you so he gave it to you?

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clifto 19 years ago

As long as there are criminal penalties for infractions, they're criminal laws. Dunno about where you are, but in Illinois some infractions of ILCS

625 can get you jail time. I don't believe they can intersperse paragraphs alternating between civil code and criminal code, but again, IANAL.

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