It’s been a year since I got my first speeding ticket ever and my court date for an appeal is coming up very soon. I’m not really happy that I was ticketed for speeding on a highway when I was just following traffic. Sure, I was going about 15-20 km above the speed limit, but so was everyone else and unfortunately I was just at the end of the pack, or I was willing to slow down and stop. My car just doesn’t go that fast. It doesn’t have a gazillion horsepower. It doesn’t have a V6 engine. I usually have to crank down on the gas pedal to even go up a hill. Cars usually whiz by me on the highway (yes, I’m one of those drivers). It didn’t help that I was in a car full of girls and we were all chatting away. Guess I got too carried away and excited, which translated to stepping on the gas pedal a bit more.
Once when I was young(er) than I am now, I was lucky and was able to get away with speeding (whereas my professor who got ticketed for speeding and complained about it in class, was not).
Hopefully luck will be with me and the officer doesn’t show up! Though these days, officers can teleconference in so this makes the likelihood of this fortuitous event highly unlikely. I’m completely fine with paying the ticket of course, but I guess I just wanted to try to see if disputing it would work. It’s the gambler in me talking.
Readers, do you remember your first speeding ticket? Were you able to get out of it? Do you have any “tried and true” methods of avoiding a ticket (other than being a celebrity I suppose).
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Thanks for including me this week. I heard if you try to get the officer’s notes sometimes you can get out of it if they didn’t take good notes. You could also try to get the maintenance requirements on the radar gun and ask if the maintenance was done. If it wasn’t it could have been a faulty reading. Those are just some tips I’ve read, don’t know if they work or not…
@Lance- Awesome tip, thanks!
Thanks for the inclusion and hosting, I really appreciate it.
Thanks for hosting and including our article.
Thank you for the inclusion and for always adding great content-I love carnivals-I get to catch up on what I may have missed during the week!
Thanks a bunch for the mention.
Thanks for including my article and basing this carnival around my post’s topic. My story of my first speeding ticket is in my post. I didn’t do anything special to get my first warning. Maybe it was just my good looks that did the trick lol.
@MM- What a coincidence! (Not about the good looking part, but the speeding ticket discussion). Great minds think alike
Thanks for including me! Here in Texas, if you haven’t taken a defensive driving course recently, getting a speeding ticket can be a good thing. It gets your butt into a defensive driving class and you cab get the ticket off your record and save some money on car insurance too.
@Crystal- That’s a great way- win win IMO. Too bad they don’t have that up here!
Thanks for hosting and including my post… Lesson my father taught me about not getting speeding tickets – Do NOT speed
Best of luck with the court date!
@Ted- Thank you! How did he teach you that lesson?
Thanks for hosting! I appreciate the inclusion!
As for the speeding ticket, no advice, except to slow down
Been there with tickets, done that!
@MOA- lol, thanks for the advice!
You’re always very practical!
I got a speeding ticket a couple of years ago & had to go to court for it. I was also hoping the officer didn’t show up – but he did. Fortunately, though, the judge dismissed the charges – no idea why – I’m guessing because it was so minor and there were too many other cases that day (the courtroom was packed). Hopefully you’ll have the same good luck
@Pamela- Awe thanks! I hope so too. I have a feeling this cop will show up
Thanks for including me this week! Enjoy your day!
Thanks for including my post.