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bigjohnstud4200
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What is the name of your state?VA
Time of day: 06:30am, Thursday morning rush traffic.
Speedinig: 69/45, 82 1 6(46 2 870)
General District Court - TRAFFIC (did not write me up for Criminal)
County - FairFax County
Vehicle - 03 BMW 3 Series, Silver (a dime a dozen here)
I have a couple questions. The first is, when the cop pulled me over he showed me the speed on the laser/lidar detector at 69mph, with a distance of 15964ft. At that distance, that's over 3 flippin miles!!!, anyone think I can fight that? How in the hell can a cop accurately identify me at that distance with such a common color vehicle. I'm sure at that distance, it would be hard to tell Silver from white, or hell... even 4 door BMW from a 4 door dually truck! Secondly, I've been reading and I understand laser/lidar measures the distance from the detector to the target and back to the detector, calculates that and divides it by 2, Layman's explaination. Even if the number indicated on my ticket of 15964ft were to be divided, that would still mean his last reading was at over 1.5 miles away! The last question is that, the road I was travelling is 55mph everywhere except for this one section of roadway. If they were to stick with the cops numbers, and I was clocked 3 miles back I should be elible for a change in speeding since at 3 miles back the speed is 55, right?
What are my chances of getting outta this one?
Thanks,
BJS
Time of day: 06:30am, Thursday morning rush traffic.
Speedinig: 69/45, 82 1 6(46 2 870)
General District Court - TRAFFIC (did not write me up for Criminal)
County - FairFax County
Vehicle - 03 BMW 3 Series, Silver (a dime a dozen here)
I have a couple questions. The first is, when the cop pulled me over he showed me the speed on the laser/lidar detector at 69mph, with a distance of 15964ft. At that distance, that's over 3 flippin miles!!!, anyone think I can fight that? How in the hell can a cop accurately identify me at that distance with such a common color vehicle. I'm sure at that distance, it would be hard to tell Silver from white, or hell... even 4 door BMW from a 4 door dually truck! Secondly, I've been reading and I understand laser/lidar measures the distance from the detector to the target and back to the detector, calculates that and divides it by 2, Layman's explaination. Even if the number indicated on my ticket of 15964ft were to be divided, that would still mean his last reading was at over 1.5 miles away! The last question is that, the road I was travelling is 55mph everywhere except for this one section of roadway. If they were to stick with the cops numbers, and I was clocked 3 miles back I should be elible for a change in speeding since at 3 miles back the speed is 55, right?
What are my chances of getting outta this one?
Thanks,
BJS