Operating in careless disregard

[brian123]

PA. I'm actually in MA, but apparently got this citation in PA when I was home for Christmas. I got this in the mail a few days ago. It seems that I was operating my vehicle in careless disregard. I didn't get pulled over...I'm not really sure what's going on. My mother, son (1 year) and wife were all in the car. I know I wasn't doing anything wrong.

I can't understand why, if I was doing something wrong, the cop didn't pull me over? Is it because I had MA plates and he knew it was easy money hoping that I'd just pay it rather than travel 600 miles to argue the ticket?

Is there anything I can do? Like find out exactly what happened that caused the ticket?

 

[sukharev]

You can call up PD and request speaking to the officer who issed a ticket, or call the court and speak to DA to find out what happened. I'd pay and forget about it, since it is not going to transfer to MA.

 

[brian123]

What do you mean it won't transfer to MA? Do you mean I won't get points for it, and it won't show up on my insurance?

 

[sukharev]

Insurance is tied up to SDIP points. SDIP points do include out-of-state moving violations (2 points), but speeding tickets don't get transfered to MA, so no SDIP point increase.

 

[brian123]

But this wasn't a speeding ticket. Does this type of moving violation get transferred?

 

[sukharev]

Impossible to know for sure, but my educated guess is no, it would not transfer.