Ohio Speeding Ticket Rules
- Ohio has specific rules in regards to speeding.ohio flagge symbol image by Marty Kropp from Fotolia.com
All states have different rules when issuing tickets for speeding on roads or highways. The state of Ohio has its own set of laws to determine how people are ticketed for speeding, how people can take a speeding ticket off of their driving record, and what the process is to fight a speeding ticket in a court of law. - If you decide to go to court to fight a speeding ticket in the state of Ohio, the first court appearance will be an arraignment. There you'll speak to a judge who will ask you if you understand the penalties for what you're being charged with and what the process will be to get out of the ticket. You may be able to speak to a speeding-ticket prosecutor beforehand and work out a deal to have the fine and points reduced on the ticket. You can plead guilty, not guilty or no contest at the arraignment. If you plead guilty or no contest, then you'll have to pay a fine or set up defensive driving. If you plead not guilty, then the speeding ticket will go to trial and another court date will be set. You can hire a lawyer to help get you out of the ticket or you can represent yourself, but any trial for a speeding ticket will probably cost extra time and money.
- As of June 3, 2010, Ohio's Supreme Court upheld the decision to allow police officers in the state to give a speeding ticket based on their training and guess as to how fast a car is going. This means that police officers and highway patrol officers in the state don't have to use radar to give speeding tickets but can rely on their police training to say that they thought someone was going faster then the posted legal speed limit and give out tickets.
- Upon a guilty or no-contest plea for a speeding ticket, a point is added to a driver's record in the state of Ohio, which can make their insurance go up and can possibly cost them their license if they already have points on their records. However, Ohio offers defensive driving courses with approval from a judge if violators haven't already taken a defensive driving course recently. These courses are eight hours long and must cover a number of different subjects about safe driving, such as how to avoid collisions and deciding whether certain collisions were preventable or not and how.
