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From: ajs@hpfcla.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Help me fight unfair speeding ticket
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Date: Mon, 27-Jan-86 11:41:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 27 11:41:00 1986
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In the past I've read with detached amusement various postings about
speeding tickets.  Now, after being branded a criminal on the way in to
work, it's suddenly all very real to me.  :-)

Help!  I need information or pointers which might help me win in court
(in Colorado).  The circumstances are:  county road, a 1/2 mile section
with fields on both sides, no side roads at all, caught by radar doing
57 in a 45 zone.  Conditions clear, dry, with little traffic.  Previous
speed limit sign (45) was 3/4 mile back, before a housing area; the road
"opens up" after leaving that section, but there is a 45 limit on all
county roads unless otherwise posted.  Cop admitted to catching seven
people before me.

Do you have any sure-fire means to obviate the use of radar?  Or to
argue that I was doing a safe and reasonable speed for the time and
conditions?  How about the capricious nature of the speed trap?  And
if I lose in court, need I fear worse results than just paying the
ticket by mail?

This really has my dander up.  I have a clean record (8+ years), a well
maintained vehicle, and am not a wild driver.  I even wear seat belts.  :-)

Thanks in advance for any advice you can mail (or post if of general use).

Alan Silverstein, Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Systems Division, Colorado
{ihnp4 | hplabs}!hpfcla!ajs, 303-226-3800 x3053, N 40 31'31" W 105 00'43"