Speeding Ticket Today

[Derek Ortt]

Got a speeding ticket today, written up for 39 in a 30. Lucky that it was only for that, as I was foolish enough to go faster.

I was advised to take the matter to court as I would likely receive no points and a reduced fine since I have no other points on the liscense. For those familiar with Coral Gables, is it like a lot of other areas where they reduce speeding to something lesser, or is it just a lesser version of speeding. I am wondering because if a speeding goes on my record, up goes the old insurance

[CajunMama]

One of my customers was telling me about all his speeding tickets in LA yesterday. He gets off by asking them to see the calibration record of the radar gun. Here they must be calibered every 6 months....and some records showed that one gun hadn't been calibered in 3 years! Also, the judge may not want to go through all the mickey mouse paperwork of getting the records so he may dismiss the ticket!

My daughter just got her second speeding ticket. First one didn't go on her record. This one, she got it changed to a non moving violation and had to go to defensive driving school again and pay a $115 fine (with her own money) but this one won't be on her record either.

Good Luck!!!

[rainstorm]

tell her to slow down!!!! i got a 83 in a 55 ticket, but it was reduced to improper driving

[kevin]

*winks back at rainstorm's icon thing*

[breeze]

Last ticket for speeding.....1987.

Please pray for me.

[rainstorm]

Last ticket for speeding.....1987.

Please pray for me.

wow, 18 years of good driving

[tomboudreau]

I've never had one...been driving for almost 12 years now. Not even pulled over once.

[breeze]

Last ticket for speeding.....1987.

Please pray for me.

wow, 18 years of good driving

Pssst....actually, eighteen years of not getting caught.... (*breeze ducks behind her steering wheel)...

[CajunMama]

32 years of driving...no speeding tickets!!! I must drive like Tweety Bird's Grandma owner!

[kevin]

Lead follow or get ....... out of the way!

[george_r_1961]

No tickets in 10 years,,,learned my lesson. In my 20's and early 30's I was hell on wheels

[Miss Mary]

Within in a year of moving to our new house, 1989, both my husband and I got speeding tickets. On the same road, our street is off of. 35 speed limit. Hate to admit it, but I was going close to 48! Pregnant and with a 2 year old in her carseat (Nina). Cop really reprimanded me.

Anyway, that was my last one and to the best of my knowledge my only one (had a ticket for going thru yellow, that turned quickly to red, hrrrrmmmmphhhh).

Best advice we got from the cop was to never go over 7 MPH past the speed limit.

So now I have major speeders on my tail all the time. But I know where all the radar traps are so as soon as we pass another cop, clocking us at 42, in a 35 zone, I just look up in my rear view mirror and say, you're welcome, with a smile. That's when the driver on my tail pulls back. Happens all the time. I love pissin' them off too....sorry, but it is fun. Sometimes they zoom around me, I just say oh go right ahead, you fool.

I have a SIL that routinely gets speeding tickets. At least 2 a year. I was on an all women's trip to Chicago, last November. She drove 4 out 6 SIL's up, if we had wrecked, OMG....won't go there, but she likes to drive 90 MPH, in a 65. No lie. Get this - she got us home from downtown Chicago in 3.5 hours! That's at least a 5 hour drive!!!! All of our husbands were amazed but mostly thankful we didn't get into an accident! She's no longer in the family though.....so no more risks with that one.

Mary

[alicia-w]

30 years of driving and no tickets.

[Kim_in_MN]

Last ticket for speeding.....1987.

Please pray for me.

wow, 18 years of good driving

Pssst....actually, eighteen years of not getting caught.... (*breeze ducks behind her steering wheel)...

LOL - that's me, too. 22 years and I have had one speeding ticket. But get me on some of those Minnesota or North Dakota roads where only meet one car in ten miles and I have to admit I don't *always* stick to the limit! I just try not to go more than 5 miles (or so) over.

Kim

[Pburgh]

42 years of driving and 1 ticket. I've been lucky though cause I drive pretty fast especially on the Turnpike and the Parkways.

[brunota2003]

I know a guy who got caught doing 95 in a 15...

[rainstorm]

when i went to court there was this one guy who had got a reckless driving ticket for cutting through a parking lot to avoid a red light. when he was asked why he did it he said he was excited because he was going to hooters for the first time. the whole courtroom broke out in laughter

[Cookiely]

33 years driving and no tickets. I always drive 5 over the speed limit and it still ticks other drivers. My father had a stroke while we were camping out and it was an hour and a half drive to the hospital. I was doing over 85 mph and praying for a highway patrol but no such luck. I've never been able to get back on the interstate since it happened.

[Cookiely]

Derek here is a link to the information your looking for. Pay the fine and take an online driving course.
http://www.speedingticketcentral.com/Fl ... icket.html

[orchid]

Derek in a few days you are going to start receiving unsolicited mail from lawyers and different schools. Anyway you go, just make sure the county receives your certificate of completion of whatever course you are taking since sometime they don't receive them.