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Sinsaint26
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My mother got a speeding ticket today. She was in a 55mph zone and he said he clocked her going 70mph. I was sitting behind her talking to my brother. I can't honestly say I know for a fact she wasn't speeding but I only ever saw her speedomoter go as high as 59mph. The other reason I don't think that she was speeding is because there were other cars passing her. She never went into the passing lane. When we saw him pull out, I even told her not to pull over because I thought he was going after the car that had just passed us or one of the other ones in the group that had passed us. I guess I just have trouble believing she was the one speeding when she was actually the only one who stayed in her lane while every one else (who obviously were going faster) went around her.
I don't have a problem with how the officer treated my mother but I did think some of the things he said were odd. He told my mom he clocked her going 70mph but when I looked at the citation there was a box he could check off for the method of speed detection he used. Even though "clocked" was on there, he had "radar" marked. He also gave a vehicle description of Station Wagon, Tan color but we were in a silver mini-van. He also marked the location where he caught her with radar but when we went back and looked at that section of the road there were only two spots where he could have been parked but both places sit pretty far down below road level and at that angle I don't see how he could determine for certain which vehicle he gunned because you could just barely see the top of a person's car (some cars you couldn't see at all until they got down around the bend). I understand that radar is typically accurate but how is he certain he got my mom's speed and not someone else's? I'm not kidding about how many people were out driving today. There were so many cars that a lot of people weren't pulling into the far lane like you typically would when you see someone pulled over to go out around us because there were already people in that lane. I saw one car that looked like it was no more than two feet behind the officer because there was no way to get in the other lane.
Can she fight it because of the vehicle description error, inconsistant statement as to whether she was clocked or radar or that maybe his gun picked up someone elses speed? I did a check on-line of radar studies and found that some guns have a less than 43% accuracy rating when there is more than one vehicle in a 100 yard area. Is this true? One last thing. She had just bought this vehicle yesterday (we were on our way to pick up her car that she left at the dealership). We decided to use her old car to test the speed of her van (not reliable, I know). We went through a construction area that checks the car speed to make sure the car was accurate and then we took both vehicles out on the highway. When I got the car to 65mph her van speedometer said she was going 74mph. Just the opposite of what we hoped for but all I keep thinking is that in order for her to be going a true 70mph have van speedometer would have been reading almost 80mph and there is just no way. I never saw her speedometer get even close to that.
My mother got a speeding ticket today. She was in a 55mph zone and he said he clocked her going 70mph. I was sitting behind her talking to my brother. I can't honestly say I know for a fact she wasn't speeding but I only ever saw her speedomoter go as high as 59mph. The other reason I don't think that she was speeding is because there were other cars passing her. She never went into the passing lane. When we saw him pull out, I even told her not to pull over because I thought he was going after the car that had just passed us or one of the other ones in the group that had passed us. I guess I just have trouble believing she was the one speeding when she was actually the only one who stayed in her lane while every one else (who obviously were going faster) went around her.
I don't have a problem with how the officer treated my mother but I did think some of the things he said were odd. He told my mom he clocked her going 70mph but when I looked at the citation there was a box he could check off for the method of speed detection he used. Even though "clocked" was on there, he had "radar" marked. He also gave a vehicle description of Station Wagon, Tan color but we were in a silver mini-van. He also marked the location where he caught her with radar but when we went back and looked at that section of the road there were only two spots where he could have been parked but both places sit pretty far down below road level and at that angle I don't see how he could determine for certain which vehicle he gunned because you could just barely see the top of a person's car (some cars you couldn't see at all until they got down around the bend). I understand that radar is typically accurate but how is he certain he got my mom's speed and not someone else's? I'm not kidding about how many people were out driving today. There were so many cars that a lot of people weren't pulling into the far lane like you typically would when you see someone pulled over to go out around us because there were already people in that lane. I saw one car that looked like it was no more than two feet behind the officer because there was no way to get in the other lane.
Can she fight it because of the vehicle description error, inconsistant statement as to whether she was clocked or radar or that maybe his gun picked up someone elses speed? I did a check on-line of radar studies and found that some guns have a less than 43% accuracy rating when there is more than one vehicle in a 100 yard area. Is this true? One last thing. She had just bought this vehicle yesterday (we were on our way to pick up her car that she left at the dealership). We decided to use her old car to test the speed of her van (not reliable, I know). We went through a construction area that checks the car speed to make sure the car was accurate and then we took both vehicles out on the highway. When I got the car to 65mph her van speedometer said she was going 74mph. Just the opposite of what we hoped for but all I keep thinking is that in order for her to be going a true 70mph have van speedometer would have been reading almost 80mph and there is just no way. I never saw her speedometer get even close to that.
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