Speeding tickets

[Engine]

Can you protest a speeding ticket due to incorrect details on the ticket?

 

[stuke]

sure can....depends on what they get wrong though as to the success of your appeal. can't hurt though.

 

[Chook Norris]

what details did they get wrong?

as far as i know, probably yes

but.. hey.. i haven't got me L's yet :lol:

these links might help you, don't know how accurate they are though..
http://www.articlesbase.com/automot...ding-ticket-what-it-can-do-for-you-26912.html

If you do get caught speeding, make sure you check your speeding ticket after you've signed it for any errors. While they may not make mistakes often, don't forget that police officers are human and they can make errors like anyone else.

-If the police officer did not sign your .. , generally, it is not legal
-If the color and make is wrong, but are very similar to what you were driving, the ticket is good and will survive a court ruling.
-Another fatal error to your speeding ticket may be if the officer does not put down the place you were caught speeding. It could get your case dismissed.
-However, general misspellings, such as your name or address, will not do any harm to the officer's case against you. If they do not have the correct license plate, again, while it is an error, your ticket will certainly hold up in court.

http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/42116

If you receive a ticket with incorrect vehicle information, in most cases it will not be grounds for an immediate dismissal. Despite what the previous poster states however, it will almost always get you out of a conviction if used wisely. Take for instance something as small as the officer incorrectly identifying your vehicle as a 4 door vs. 2 door on the citation. Request a court date, and do not reveal the officers mistake until you are cross-examining him/her. During your cross-examination, question the officer about details related to the incident, where they spotted you, how long they followed you, etc. Ask them if they are 100% confident in their recollection of the incident. Ask them if they are confident that they were pacing you at the speed indicated on the citation, and that all the information on their citation is correct. In my experience, police officers are rarely analytical thinkers, and will generally spout off yes, yes, yes, quickly without considering where your questioning might be headed. After they assure you and the court, that all the information on the citation is correct to the best of their knowledge, ask them how they can be sure that they were pacing you at the indicated speed, with all the distractions of driving; when they weren't even able to determine the correct number of doors on your vehicle, during the 15 minutes they were standing right next to it while writing the citation. Judge actually chuckled at this point. Dismissed. I'm sure you get the idea here, one mistake on a citation calls into question the validity of all information on that citation.

While I don't enjoy spending time in traffic court, even with a front of the line pass, you should contest all your tickets. There is a good chance that old Fife won't even show up

 

[[furrycat]]

Those articles are based on US laws; not here.

Engine, what details are wrong?

You can't get off generally if the date is wrong, time is wrong, your name has been spelt wrong or something trivial like that

 

[[furrycat]]

sure can....depends on what they get wrong though as to the success of your appeal. can't hurt though.

And if you lose the appeal, you pay court costs lol

 

[Engine]

Drivers licence number

 

[Dean Moriarty]

Suck it up. Do the crime, pay the fine.

 

[[furrycat]]

Drivers licence number

Unlikely. Thing is it has to match up with the RTA in the end in order to record demerit points, but if you admit it is wrong and challenge it, it won't take long for them to determine your real license number. It wouldn't take them long to match it up in the system your address/name with the correct number. Yo

In the end, its not good enough to get an infringement made invalid. Pay the fine and cop the points

 

[Bastard Squad]

Just say Professor Teresa Brennan was driving your car at the time.

 

[Lego_Man]

If you receive a ticket with incorrect vehicle information, in most cases it will not be grounds for an immediate dismissal. Despite what the previous poster states however, it will almost always get you out of a conviction if used wisely. Take for instance something as small as the officer incorrectly identifying your vehicle as a 4 door vs. 2 door on the citation. Request a court date, and do not reveal the officers mistake until you are cross-examining him/her. During your cross-examination, question the officer about details related to the incident, where they spotted you, how long they followed you, etc. Ask them if they are 100% confident in their recollection of the incident. Ask them if they are confident that they were pacing you at the speed indicated on the citation, and that all the information on their citation is correct. In my experience, police officers are rarely analytical thinkers, and will generally spout off yes, yes, yes, quickly without considering where your questioning might be headed. After they assure you and the court, that all the information on the citation is correct to the best of their knowledge, ask them how they can be sure that they were pacing you at the indicated speed, with all the distractions of driving; when they weren't even able to determine the correct number of doors on your vehicle, during the 15 minutes they were standing right next to it while writing the citation. Judge actually chuckled at this point. Dismissed. I'm sure you get the idea here, one mistake on a citation calls into question the validity of all information on that citation.

While I don't enjoy spending time in traffic court, even with a front of the line pass, you should contest all your tickets. There is a good chance that old Fife won't even show up

What a pathetic prick it is who wrote that. If you get caught you should cop it. Plain cowardice to try and bullsh*t your way out of punishment for an illegal act.

 

[Paullyboy]

What a pathetic prick it is who wrote that. If you get caught you should cop it. Plain cowardice to try and bullsh*t your way out of punishment for an illegal act.

Would you like a hand getting down off your high horse sweetheart?

 

[homo man]

Yeah but its a pain in the butt,you gotta go to court they give you a cavity search,then they ship you off to some prison in cuba for 10 years but after that you should be sweet.

 

[Timmah]

Would you like a hand getting down off your high horse sweetheart?

How dare someone suggest we take responsibility for their actions?

 

[Willow]

Engine, how long have you been off your Ps?

 

[Paullyboy]

How dare someone suggest we take responsibility for their actions?

If you try to pretend for a second that you never speed you are making an absolute goose of yourself.

I have no problem with people getting sprung for massive speeding cases, but I've seen two different people pinged for doing 66 and now just this week 65 in 60 zones and still received a fine. That's just ridiculous and nothing short of revenue raising.

 

[[furrycat]]

If you try to pretend for a second that you never speed you are making an absolute goose of yourself.

I have no problem with people getting sprung for massive speeding cases, but I've seen two different people pinged for doing 66 and now just this week 65 in 60 zones and still received a fine. That's just ridiculous and nothing short of revenue raising.

Doing 65 takes around 35-45 metres more to stop than when you're doing 60... makes a big difference if you need to stop suddenly, or a kid runs out on the road, or something unexpected happens. Makes a big difference and can mean someone dying and someone surviving. Don't act like its a victimless offence. It has the potential/

... if they are doing 65 in front of a speed camera, what do you expect? do 60 ffs.

gtfo plz

 

[Spike]

As for the OP, if you turn up to court protesting with ticket in hand stating that the ticket should be void due to the incorrect licence number being written, I doubt any magistrate will have much sympathy for you. Your presence alone would be enough to cover the proof of driver needed for a speeding offence.

 

[Timmah]

:shock:

teh furry and timmah are on the same page :crazy:


Having said that, no I'm not denying I've never done over the limit. Doesn't make it ok...

 

[Paullyboy]

Doing 65 takes around 35-45 metres more to stop than when you're doing 60... makes a big difference if you need to stop suddenly, or a kid runs out on the road, or something unexpected happens. Makes a big difference and can mean someone dying and someone surviving. Don't act like its a victimless offence. It has the potential/

... if they are doing 65 in front of a speed camera, what do you expect? do 60 ffs.

gtfo plz

If you are going down a hill and try to keep to the exact speed limit as you suggest I dare say you'd be a more dangerous driver than someone who is doing 65 and there is one good reason for this - if you hover exactly on 60 coming down a hill chances are you are focusing as much on your speedometer as you are the road in front of you. I'd take someone watching the road over someone continually glancing up and down at their speedo any day of the week.

 

[eddiesmith]

I've been pinged by a fixed camera at the bottom of a hill doing 63 in a 60 zone, its on a freeway overpass and everytime I drive down the freeway its going off, very good revenue raiser and not a dangerous intersection at all that would require a camera for safety

As for tickets given by officers, best way to get out of them is before they write it, be shocked when they come up to you and convince them it was an accident you didnt even realise you were speeding and it must have been bad timing, the innocence act works :lol:

Atleast when they pull you over its not going to be for being a couple of ks over the limit unlike bloody speed cameras