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So You Have a Traffic Ticket for Speeding?

23 May 2008

Here's the situation: you got a speeding ticket. But how fast were you going? Did you go 10 miles over the speed limit, or 30 miles over? This can make a difference in what you do about your ticket. Do you try to fight it or accept and pay the fee? There can be subtle differences in a speeding tickets that can make you spend $150 or $40.


Some people think that going just 10 miles over the speed limit is no big deal and, therefore, should not receive a traffic ticket for this. On an average 115,000 speeding tickets are written per day to people who sped just 10 miles over the speed limit. Calculating this on an annual basis makes about 42,000,000 speeding tickets written per year for people who sped 10 miles over the designate speed limit. Knowing that the average fee is for this kind of Nassau County traffic ticket is about $150, this makes a total of approximately 6.3 billion dollars in revenue from these speeding tickets.


There are ways to get out of paying the fee for the speeding ticket and avoiding receiving points on your driving license. To do this you must start off by either mitigating or contesting your [county] traffic ticket for speeding. In order for a traffic court to prove that you are guilty of speeding, there are number of factors that should come into consideration.


There must be proof from the traffic cop's side to show that your were speeding. It can be hard to prove this, though. One of the most accurate ways is to track a driver's speed is through the use of a radar gun. But there can be caveats to this device, as well. A traffic officer has to prove that he knows how to operate a radar gun and that the radar gun was calibrated properly at the time of the offense.


One of the best ways to get out of a Suffolk County traffic ticket is for you to request a contested hearing and to subpoena the officer that issued you with the ticket to appear at your court date. Oftentimes, the court date doesn't occur until long after the incident happened. And by this time, the officer may have forgotten all the details of the incident that is needed to convict you. Some court dates don't happen until a long six months later, at this point many officers have forgotten the details. Or, he could forget about the court date and not show. This is even better for you. If he doesn't show then you get an automatic dismissal.

Traffic tickets and DUI's can cause serious legal penalties if not handled correctly by a New York Attorney. In order to beat a Traffic Ticket in Westchester, get the help of an attorney in New York.