Hi all,
I from Florida and was traveling to Virginia this past holiday (Christmas). Well to make a slong story short, I had cruise control set at the posted limit of 65 on I-95. I watch these two cars play cat and mouse for about 5 miles and decided i better get in the far right lane so that i'm far out of their way. (I was in the passing lane for a while with one vehicle in front of me, two in the center lane and zero in the far right lane)
As I watched one vehicle fly around me, i went to get out of the way for the other...
well as I sped up to get over to the far right lane ( i increased my speed up to about 70mph to do so)...I watched a car (later turned to be an unmarked police car) speed up on my tail and lit up his lights and sirens. This unmarked cop car was about a little under a qauter mile behind me when i guess he saw me speeding up (didn't realize i was getting out of the way of the real speeders)..so he decides to speed up to catch up to me (which i was traveling just a few miles over 65 (the posted limit) and "paced" me at 94mph.
I almost got nasty with him because that was a dead lie to my face. I figured i'd wait to have my day in court though.
All in all, he says he paced me at 94mph in a 65mph zone. So of course i'm facing Reckless Driving charges in the state of Virginia (VA)
Any help on what I can do to fight this would be very much appreicated!!!
I from Florida and was traveling to Virginia this past holiday (Christmas). Well to make a slong story short, I had cruise control set at the posted limit of 65 on I-95. I watch these two cars play cat and mouse for about 5 miles and decided i better get in the far right lane so that i'm far out of their way. (I was in the passing lane for a while with one vehicle in front of me, two in the center lane and zero in the far right lane)
As I watched one vehicle fly around me, i went to get out of the way for the other...
well as I sped up to get over to the far right lane ( i increased my speed up to about 70mph to do so)...I watched a car (later turned to be an unmarked police car) speed up on my tail and lit up his lights and sirens. This unmarked cop car was about a little under a qauter mile behind me when i guess he saw me speeding up (didn't realize i was getting out of the way of the real speeders)..so he decides to speed up to catch up to me (which i was traveling just a few miles over 65 (the posted limit) and "paced" me at 94mph.
I almost got nasty with him because that was a dead lie to my face. I figured i'd wait to have my day in court though.
All in all, he says he paced me at 94mph in a 65mph zone. So of course i'm facing Reckless Driving charges in the state of Virginia (VA)
Any help on what I can do to fight this would be very much appreicated!!!