The Definitive List of Myths About Speeding Tickets
There are many ways to fight speeding tickets. The best ways are probably NOT ways the average person has heard about. Speedticketbeaters.com presents the “Definitive List of Speeding Ticket Myths”. Read and learn.
Nearly everyone reading this article is going to get a speed ticket at some time in their life. This list will help you join an elite “club” of speed ticket beaters!
A longer list exists at Speedticketbeaters.com.
Below are the most common falsehoods, and why they are false.
1- “Traffic school will get you out of the ticket” – This is not true. Traffic school does nothing but guarantees you pay a fine (all you did was plead guilty and traffic school was part of the penalty), have a guilty on your record, and maybe drop the points on your license. But points on your license are NOT where insurance increases are determined. Points relate to state DMV issues (ie: suspension and revokation). Guilty pleas determine insurance increases! So you have left yourself sitting in heap of trouble (if not now, later when you get another speed ticket).
2- “Finding Mistakes in how the ticket was written will get you out of the speed ticket” – Unless you were driving (for example) a blue Porsche, and they wrote (for example) a white Chevy pick up truck, this strategy does not get you out of a speeding ticket! The cop has to get it as wrong as our example, for a ticket writing error to work. Otherwise, nope. All of the other mistakes you can think of will also fail to beat your speed ticket!
3- “Downloadable E-Books or other books can teach you enough to win”- Books do not take the specifics of your speed ticket into account. They also require way too much reading and learning of law for the average person to comprehend in a short time. And book info is too generic and non specific to your case to beat your speeding ticket. If you’d like to walk into traffic court with the defense they’ve heard before and are prepared for, buy a book. If you want to win in your speeding case…plan on getting more creative.
4- “Repeatedly getting continuances/delaying the trial will help” – The cop will likely still show up at the eventual date. Then what are you going to do? You need to show up, prepared to fight your speed ticket and win, because the cop will probably be there.
5- “Free legal advice from regular people on internet speeding ticket forums should be enough to learn the best strategies” – Do you know how to beat your speed ticket? Neither do the other people on the forums you’re reading! If you want to win, you better get expert defense strategies in place from sources like Speedticketbeaters.com.
6- “A Radar detector will warn me of cops in the area” – A radar detector will warn you of cops in the area who are using radar to trap you into a speed ticket. But what if they are using vascar. laser, lidar, or pacing? (And detectors miss lots of the radar too).
7- “Lawyers know how to beat speeding tickets” – Lawyers do NOT study how to beat speed tickets in law school! If you hire a lawyer, you will end up spending a fortune in legal fees, and will still lose in court. All the lawyer will do is plea bargain, and you’ll still pay a fine! Plea bargaining is not winning.
8- “Saying that you didn’t see the speed limit sign or know the limit changed should work” – That is not the traffic courts problem..it’s yours! If you want to be a speed ticket beater, you need to get a better defense than that.
9- “The cop has to show you the radar (or laser, etc) if you ask to see it” – They are not required to show you anything! Have you ever heard of a guy being arrested for murder, who had a right to see the evidence at the scene of the arrest, or the arrest is invalid? (Neither have we)!
10- “Saying the cop had your speed wrong should do it” – Cops (NOT YOU) are presumed by the traffic courts and judges to have accurate information, and to be telling the truth. No one in the court cares what you think!
11- “Passengers in your car can confirm the cop has things wrong” – Same problem as # 10, with one minor alteration…No one in the court cares what your passengers think!
12- “You can claim that the cop got the speed of another car, not your car” – Again, same problem as # 10 above.
13- “You can claim you were going the same speed as the flow of traffic, it’ wasn’t fair to pick you out of the crowd” – A cop can pick anyone he wants “out of the crowd” of cars, when he is writing a speed ticket. It was your unlucky day. “Fairness” is not in the debate.
14- “You know that your car can’t go as fast as the cop says it went” – Again, same problem as # 10. And no traffic judge will care what “proof” you can show. Beating your speeding ticket requires much better stuff than this!
15- “You can say that you had your cruise control set to just a few miles per hour over the limit” – Congratulations. If you say this in traffic court you’ll be found guilty immediately. You cannot ever admit to doing even 1 MPH over the limit! This is the equivalent of a thief saying, that the cops are wrong because he “stole $900”, not “$1000”. The thief just admitted to stealing! There is no such thing as “partial guilt”!
16- “Tell them that your speedometer, cruise control, or some other aspect of your car was malfunctioning” – That is your problem, not the traffic courts. They don’t care! Are you trying to beat your speed ticket, or get laughed out of the courtroom?
17- “Mention that you were driving a rental car, or someone elses car” – They are ticketing YOU the driver…NOT the car! They didin’t write a ticket saying “Timmy was behaving perfectly well, but his Toyota is nuts!”
18- “You think because you have a CDL license, the rules are different for you” – Were you driving a vehicle, with wheels? Then you have a speed ticket. Just like anyone else! (In fact, if anything your speed limit is lower than the rest of traffic).
19- “Point out that your license is from a different state than the one you were in” – All 50 states are linked up. Your insurance carrier will be informed of the violation, and it will affect you. There is no hiding from the law. Get a real speeding ticket defense, or you will be sorry…
20- “The ticket says no court appearance is required, so it’s no big deal” – No appearance is required if you are paying your fine and pleading guilty. But that is not what you are doing. To win in a speed ticket case, a court appearance will be required! You need to come in with a defense, and beat the speeding ticket!
21- “You can fight the ticket with a mail in a defense (“Trial by declaration”) and still win” – Almost never works. If you really want to win, you are going to have to appear in court. Besides the things regular people write in these mail in defenses end up being incriminating. (And most states do not allow mail in defenses anyway).
22- “You can’t make it on the date they assigned you to be in court, so they have to just cancel the whole thing” – Court dates can be changed by your request or theirs. But if you don’t pick a date, and appear on that date.. You will automatically lose!
23- “Tell them you live out of state and can’t get to the trial because it’s too far away” – Traffic courts have no mercy! This plan will not work. Remember, they will give you a date months away if needed…But if you don’t agree to some date…IT’S OVER, you lose! (So schedule it for the next time you are going to be in that area anyway).
24- “You just need to get them to reduce the speed they are accusing you of” – That does not help you. 1 mile per hour over the limit is enough for them to find you guilty and make you pay up! Getting a speed ticket defense, from Speedticketbeaters.com is a much safer plan.
25- “The cop did you a “favor” and wrote the ticket for a lower speed, so that should help” – No it won’t! The cop made you think he’s/she’s such a nice cop, that now you aren’t very motivated to fight the ticket. That was their strategy. They did the city “a favor”, not you! They think you’re just going to give up “nicely”, since they were so “nice” to you.
26- “The cop did not have his lights on, or was in a location that you think was illegal to sit in” – Cops have the legal authority to determine who was speeding while sitting in any location they wish, with their vehicle in any condition they wish! Study # 10 over again. No judge cares what you think!
27- “Tell them you were sick or speeding for some important reason” – Doesn’t matter. The minute you admit in court to speeding, it’s over. You lose. They don’t care what your reason was.
28- “Point out that you have a clean driving” – So what. That would be like hoping the judge excuses the sizeable amount of narcotics you were caught selling, because you hadn’t been caught selling narcotics before. Your clean past is not taken into consideration! Beat your speeding ticket, and to do so get a serious defense at Speedticketbeaters.com.
29- “Getting the fine and points reduced on your ticket does the trick” – Do a destruction, not reduction! Don’t negotiate, eliminate! If you want to lose money by still paying some kind of “reduced fine”, traffic ticket lawyers are great at losing (we hope you caught the saracsm). All they know how to do is plea bargain and have you lose money due to your “lower speed” guilty plea. Besides, half of them are probably doing corrupt “kick backs” with the court)! We haven’t heard of a traffic lawyer yet, that actually knows how to beat a speed ticket! But at Speedticketbeaters.com, we know how to beat speeding tickets. All we do, all day every day, is beat speeding tickets! We are the true speed ticket beaters!
Here’s the bottom line…NONE of the above ideas work! Stop trying to think of ways out of your speed ticket. The courts goal is to steal your money for the counties use. They will ignore any of your (non expert) defense ideas.
Get serious, and get a hardcore speed ticket defense! Speedticketbeaters.com is the place to do that.
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