What is the name of your state? PA
About a month back I got a ticket for "Driving Vehicle at Safe Speed" on one of the back roads near my house. What happened was I was turning off the highway onto my road and it was around 9 and I wasn't going that fast at all on the highway as I was looking for my turn. I didn't see fast enough and i turned onto my road a little faster than usual but I was still on my side of the road and everything. I didn't notice that a cop also pulled in behind me going to a call he was on. I followed my road for about a mile and just continued to speed up. I slowed down a little and went around this one turn I admit faster than I would take it normally. As I was going around the turn there was another car going around it as well and i noticed his lights so i was careful. I was still taking the turn a little fast but I was on my side of the road, never went off the road, and never skid. The conditions were clear with no rain or anything. Once i got around that turn the cop pulled me over and said he thought i was trying to get away from him. he said he "was 95% sure he was going to get into a car chase" He said that I was going to fast for my level of experience as I have had my license a month or so and quote if I "had been driving for 50 years and were a race car driver" he could see where it wouldn't be bad. Isn't this a form of profiling in it's own? There is no posted speed limit sign from the turn off the highway to where he pulled me over. There is one for 45 MPH a little past where he got me but none before that. So I was not "exceeding the speed limit" in that area without the posted sign.
I admit that it was a little fast but there were no speed limit signs or anything to tell me i couldn't do around 55 or so on the road. Also I did not go off the road or skid or jerk at any time, I made the turn smooth even if it was a little fast.
My ticket reads exactly "OP TURNKD ONTO "X" RD AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED THEN CONT. TO SPEED UP AS I FOLLOWED" He doesn't even know there is no "K" in turned...
I'm pretty sure that there is no law for "speeding up" especially if there is no posted speed limit. Sure I accelerated fast but I like to feel the engine of my car sometimes, there is no law about accelerating fast on a back road like that as long as i don't go over the rated speed, which there was no actual posted. I can prove that becuase there still isn't.
I think the main reason I have a chance is that the violation written isn't a very good one. I know that you have to be guilty of exactly what it says and I admit I am guilty for turning in fast becuase i didn't see the road, but i did stay on my side. I also admit that I am guilty of speeding up after a turn...however i was pretty sure that those are not illegal to do as long as i'm not exceeding the speed and i'm not on anyone else's side of the road when i turned like that.
Do you guys think I have a case? becuase I think I have a very good chance, especially with the poor writing he did on the "violation"
Thank you for reading and any info or advice would be greatly appreciated.
About a month back I got a ticket for "Driving Vehicle at Safe Speed" on one of the back roads near my house. What happened was I was turning off the highway onto my road and it was around 9 and I wasn't going that fast at all on the highway as I was looking for my turn. I didn't see fast enough and i turned onto my road a little faster than usual but I was still on my side of the road and everything. I didn't notice that a cop also pulled in behind me going to a call he was on. I followed my road for about a mile and just continued to speed up. I slowed down a little and went around this one turn I admit faster than I would take it normally. As I was going around the turn there was another car going around it as well and i noticed his lights so i was careful. I was still taking the turn a little fast but I was on my side of the road, never went off the road, and never skid. The conditions were clear with no rain or anything. Once i got around that turn the cop pulled me over and said he thought i was trying to get away from him. he said he "was 95% sure he was going to get into a car chase" He said that I was going to fast for my level of experience as I have had my license a month or so and quote if I "had been driving for 50 years and were a race car driver" he could see where it wouldn't be bad. Isn't this a form of profiling in it's own? There is no posted speed limit sign from the turn off the highway to where he pulled me over. There is one for 45 MPH a little past where he got me but none before that. So I was not "exceeding the speed limit" in that area without the posted sign.
I admit that it was a little fast but there were no speed limit signs or anything to tell me i couldn't do around 55 or so on the road. Also I did not go off the road or skid or jerk at any time, I made the turn smooth even if it was a little fast.
My ticket reads exactly "OP TURNKD ONTO "X" RD AT A HIGH RATE OF SPEED THEN CONT. TO SPEED UP AS I FOLLOWED" He doesn't even know there is no "K" in turned...
I'm pretty sure that there is no law for "speeding up" especially if there is no posted speed limit. Sure I accelerated fast but I like to feel the engine of my car sometimes, there is no law about accelerating fast on a back road like that as long as i don't go over the rated speed, which there was no actual posted. I can prove that becuase there still isn't.
I think the main reason I have a chance is that the violation written isn't a very good one. I know that you have to be guilty of exactly what it says and I admit I am guilty for turning in fast becuase i didn't see the road, but i did stay on my side. I also admit that I am guilty of speeding up after a turn...however i was pretty sure that those are not illegal to do as long as i'm not exceeding the speed and i'm not on anyone else's side of the road when i turned like that.
Do you guys think I have a case? becuase I think I have a very good chance, especially with the poor writing he did on the "violation"
Thank you for reading and any info or advice would be greatly appreciated.
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