dammit dammit dammit I got another one! I got two tickets. one last month and one this month. On the first ticket the #$%@ cop used radar, so i bought a radar detector. Just my luck, today i was driving back from modesto at night ( tinted windows counldnt see cop) and the bastard follows me around instead of using radar! so i got hit with another ticket.
Im going to traffic school for the first one, but i want to know my chances of winning this case if i were to take it to court. I already have one ticket on my record besides this one. I'm afraid that if this one gets on my record to im going to have to pay astronomical insurance prices.

Please help, tell me my chances, what do you think?

 

Here I got this from the Bimmer boards when I got my ticket in my bimmer.



How to beat speeding tickets!

 

If you take him to the court and he didn't show up, the case will be dismiss. However, if he shows up, there isn't bigger possiblity that you're gonna win. Nothing to lose. Try it. You can't even go to traffic school for second one because if you take him to the court, then you lose the oppotunity to go to the traffic school. Good Luck!!

 

You all are some ticket getting folks on here.
I have been driving for over 23yrs now & have only got 3 speeding tickets & a verbal warning to slow down. You guys most be going pretty fast

 

Only on the highways! Never never the residential areas!

 

I have been pulled over twice in the last month but I got lucky!!

1st time: 80 in 65... verbal warning.
2nd time: 73 in 50... $25 no seatbelt infraction.

 

Lucky bastard I go 60 in a 55 and I get a 2point ticket!?!?

 

Same here. Last time I was stopped was last year. A Wisconsin Trooper pulled me over for speeding on I-94 just south of Milwaukee, but let me go (he was pacing me and I never saw him). Got off with just a verbal warning.

Before that was in '91. Got a ticket on that one.

I've gotten flamed for admitting to speeding, and I've done my share of triple digit speeds. Admittedly now that I have children, it happens less. I do it mainly on the highway, as long as the conditions are right.

Light or no traffic and good weather conditions. I'm also careful to make sure that there is always someone ahead of me so that my radar detector will go off with plenty of warning.

I hate people who speed down city or residential streets, you never know when a child might run out into the street.

It all comes down to common sense and a little luck.

 

Man, 2 tickets in 2 months? Talk about some bad luck! Anyways, like someone else said, you could hope the cop doesn't show up but I think these days in California more and more cops (especially CHP) are being "forced" to show up in court by their superiors if the ticket is going to be contested. If you know that you're more or less guilty; admit it, you probably were speeding--why else would you get a radar detector?

Don't get me wrong--I feel for you and have been in your shoes, but the thing I don't have much sympathy for are those people who know they're guilty but practically scream at the cop telling him that there is no way that they were speeding (or doing something else illegal). Hey, it's a free world, and people are free to contest whatever they want, but you're (not you, specifically) not gonna win any style points if you make a big scene out of it, especially when you know deep down inside that you were wrong.

Tony