Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums Branches Northwest can i fight this ticket??

ok here goes... i got a speeding ticket for doing 70 in a 60 on I-5 where it merges with 16...(goin to seattle) from what my friend said he saw the cop sitting there n saw him pull out after i merged onto the freeway... he paced meeh for about 300 yards at 60 miles n hour..that what i was doing at the time... he said i was doing 75 when he talked to meeh after pulling me over but didnt show meeh a radar gun reading... i dont think he had one... now EVERYONE knows no one does the legal 60 on I-5... can i prove that somehow n get my ticket dropped??? what would be the best plan to deal with this cuz i think its B.S. any help would be great..
the officer also didnt get the model of my car right either he thought i was in a escort =p

Well chances are you won't be able to get the ticket dropped. If you were to fight it I'd push the "Rule of the Road". Basically you were keeping pace with the rest of traffic. But that probably won't get you too far.

If this is your first ticket or the first one you've had in a while you may have a couple options. Pleed guilty to the ticket and get the points put on your record and probably pay a minimal fine. I took this option my first ticket. It was reduced from $180 to $50-$60 (basically court fees).

Another option would be to take drivers school (if they offer it...talk to the clerks at the courthouse and they will know). Most systems that offer the school require you to pay the full ticket or more then what you would normally pay if it went on your record. The points don't go on your record and you have to spend a couple hours on a saturday or something at school. You don't have to show up to court if you take this option though.

Good luck!

When you send in the ticket, request that the officer be present, ask for the calibration of the radar gun. If either of the two are not present then they most likey will drop the ticket.

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or go to the library and see what you can come up with.

If your ticket indicates an ESCORT and you do NOT own an ESCORT, that alone is grounds for dismissal.

Maybe he was supposed to chase an Escort,
that was the same color as your car,
and mistook you car for the Escort ?

If he was just sitting on the road, when you passed him,
chances are there was another Officer doing the speed monitoring,
and was radioing to him, what cars to pick off.

I would go and fight it.

I'll agree with RR here. If he marked you down as an "Escort" you should be pretty home free in court. Now, if he marks down you have a grey car when it is actually silver, that won't work. But getting the model of car wrong is a serious enough error that the judge should throw it out.