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From: heneghan@ihlpf.UUCP (Heneghan)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Help me fight unfair speeding ticket
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Date: Mon, 10-Feb-86 17:47:06 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 10 17:47:06 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"

Sounds like you were cought in a speed trap. Since you have a good
driving record you can claim "court supervision". You're still out
the money (**%##@), but at least your insurance company won't raise
your rates. You have to show for court and don't try to buffalo the
judge- they've heard it all and then some.


					Joe Heneghan