How to Beat a Speeding Ticket
There are several ways you can beat a speeding ticket.
These hints and tips can assist you.
Now what?
These hints and tips can assist you.
- Attitude An immediate fight response with the police is not the first impression that you would like to make.
- Turn off the car and turn on your interior car lights Your hands should be at the 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock position on the steering wheel when your car is off and your interior lights are on.
- Be polite and do what the officer with the BIG gun is requesting Save your pleas until after the basics have been completed.
- After the office gets the drivers information, ask him why you were pulled over If you were speeding, confess.
- Ask to see the radar that trapped your speed Many jurisdictions require that the office allow you to see the radar.
- Plead your case Why were you going fast? Where you going a lot faster? A little? Was this an emergency? Remember to remain calm.
- Leave the scene as a non-memorable person.
You don't want him to remember anything about you. If you can't get out of the speeding ticket at the scene, don't allow the office to remember you from jack next door.
Having an attitude will increase your chances of receiving a speeding ticket.
This allows the police to see where your hands are and that you are not trying to "hide" something in the interior of your carTypically this will take any preventable tension out of the encounter before it begins.
Make the officer as comfortable as possible even if you are sweating bullets.
Most officers have basic processes they must follow with each traffic stop and they will get these out of the way first then address the driver of the car
Let the office know he was correct in pulling you over.
Many police officers have pride in their uniform and if you acknowledge that pride sufficiently for the office, he may allow you to go on your way without writing out a ticket or you
Don't press it if the office says no.
if you do get an answer in the affirmative, yes.
Ask the office if when the last time the laser was calibrated? Where were you at when you clocked my speed? Were you moving when you clocked me?Don't ask these in an argumentative tone.
Ask in a respectable conversational tone.
Resist the urge to fight.
If you need to beg, do so as much as your dignity will allow
The less he remembers the better.
Officers only remember those speeders that they want to show no mercy
Now what?
- Call the officer at work
- Ask if you can arrange a time to meet the officer at his place of business to talk about the ticket that you got.
There are officers that will meet with you and let the ticket go - Don't approach the meeting with a bad attitude.
Keep that same nice disposition.
You better have a good story why the office should allow you to get out of the ticket.
The more the office can identify with you the more likely he will be to drop the ticket.
He has the power, not you.
Keep it civil and he is the one with the power should never be forgotten. - If the meeting is a bust, write a letter to get out of the speeding ticket.
- A letter cannot hurt and you never know if giving the office time to consider changed his mind on the issue
- If you go to court over the speeding ticket, delay.
Ask for delay after delay - Follow all court guidelines
- Ask for drivers school to keep the ticket off of your record
- Go to court and plead not guilty.
This will delay the court date and the ticket on your records.
However, if you lose additional court costs will be levied against you for each delay you caused.
If found not guilty, all charges including court costs are dismissed - Above all else, to get out of a speeding ticket, you can get the advice of a lawyer.
He can tell you whether or not you can beat the speeding ticket or if you will plead guilty.