State: NJ
Received a Careless Driving Ticket for likely to endanger someone. It was 11:30pm at night and I driving down a road with a speed limit of 25mph with 3 signal lights shortly spaced between each other. I hit every light and turned into a plaza to go to a convenient store and also to pick up some take-out within the plaza. About 15 minutes later I exited another part of the plaza and went back down the same road. A police officer at an intersection pulled a U-Turn and pulled me over after following me about a mile. He asked me if I knew the posted speed limit of the road I was previously on, which I stated "Not sure 30-35mph?" and he stated it was 25mph. He stated he was sitting somewhere off the side of the road (with his police partner) and that I passed him going at least 50-60mph previously (15 minutes earlier) down the road. I told the officer that I stopped at every traffic light and was not speeding. He issued me a ticket for careless driving stating we can both agree that I went over 25mph (which I disagreed with him when handing the ticket to me).
Now in good faith I'm confident that I was not excessively speeding, maybe a little hard taking off after the signal light with a stick shift, but I was not speeding excessively more than 30mph. I'm pleading this as not guilty, and requesting proof that the officer knew that it was my vehicle 15 minutes earlier, that I was the driver and evidence that I was speeding. I plan on taking a small map of the road, showing the small distances between the lights and that it's hard to even reach those limits greater than 50-60mph. Any suggestion/tips taking this to trial?
Received a Careless Driving Ticket for likely to endanger someone. It was 11:30pm at night and I driving down a road with a speed limit of 25mph with 3 signal lights shortly spaced between each other. I hit every light and turned into a plaza to go to a convenient store and also to pick up some take-out within the plaza. About 15 minutes later I exited another part of the plaza and went back down the same road. A police officer at an intersection pulled a U-Turn and pulled me over after following me about a mile. He asked me if I knew the posted speed limit of the road I was previously on, which I stated "Not sure 30-35mph?" and he stated it was 25mph. He stated he was sitting somewhere off the side of the road (with his police partner) and that I passed him going at least 50-60mph previously (15 minutes earlier) down the road. I told the officer that I stopped at every traffic light and was not speeding. He issued me a ticket for careless driving stating we can both agree that I went over 25mph (which I disagreed with him when handing the ticket to me).
Now in good faith I'm confident that I was not excessively speeding, maybe a little hard taking off after the signal light with a stick shift, but I was not speeding excessively more than 30mph. I'm pleading this as not guilty, and requesting proof that the officer knew that it was my vehicle 15 minutes earlier, that I was the driver and evidence that I was speeding. I plan on taking a small map of the road, showing the small distances between the lights and that it's hard to even reach those limits greater than 50-60mph. Any suggestion/tips taking this to trial?