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California
Hello! My court date is tomorrow morning so I'm just trying to get some information if I have a chance of nullifying this stupid ticket that I got from the officer.
My first ticket is 21950a failure to stop for pedestrian in crosswalk.
It happened on a friday morning in Turlock near CSU Stanislaus. Usually on fridays, the intersections are not that busy, but on that particular day, the traffic was heavy.It was the third or fourth week of school most classes have midterms that friday including one of my afternoon classes. I just finished my first morning class, and I was driving to go to my other class. As I was approaching the intersection, the traffic light turned red. There were two cars in front of me that were trying to make a left turn on a traffic light. The traffic light is not the one with the arrow. Its the green circle where you have to wait for the pedestrians and the cars to pass first before you have to take the turn. As the light turned green, there were two female pedestrians that were crossing the long crossroad towards our direction. The first car completed their left turn when there were no cars passing and the pedestrians were half way in the crosswalk. The cop didn't do anything. Then there were cars again going across so the second car had to wait a few seconds. when there were no more cars the second car turned left when the pedestrians were 1/4 of the crosswalk. The cop didn't do anything again. When it was finally my turn to turn left, the light was still green but I know that eventually the light was going to turn yellow. Knowing that there was a cop behind me, I looked across and saw one car that was going across. when the car passed I started to turn left slowly. I was focusing on the cars that were trying to go across if there was someone that was trying to speed to go across, and I saw the pedestrians were almost at the curb in my peripheral. When I cross the first line of the crosswalk, I'm pretty sure that the pedestrians were already in the curb. Then the cops decided to turn on the siren and pulled me over. If i would have waited for a couple of seconds for the pedestrians to be in the curb, then wouldn't it be more dangerous for me to turn? AND the light would have been red and the cop would have given me a ticket for making a traffic or running a red light.
Do you think I have a chance in court ?
California
Hello! My court date is tomorrow morning so I'm just trying to get some information if I have a chance of nullifying this stupid ticket that I got from the officer.
My first ticket is 21950a failure to stop for pedestrian in crosswalk.
It happened on a friday morning in Turlock near CSU Stanislaus. Usually on fridays, the intersections are not that busy, but on that particular day, the traffic was heavy.It was the third or fourth week of school most classes have midterms that friday including one of my afternoon classes. I just finished my first morning class, and I was driving to go to my other class. As I was approaching the intersection, the traffic light turned red. There were two cars in front of me that were trying to make a left turn on a traffic light. The traffic light is not the one with the arrow. Its the green circle where you have to wait for the pedestrians and the cars to pass first before you have to take the turn. As the light turned green, there were two female pedestrians that were crossing the long crossroad towards our direction. The first car completed their left turn when there were no cars passing and the pedestrians were half way in the crosswalk. The cop didn't do anything. Then there were cars again going across so the second car had to wait a few seconds. when there were no more cars the second car turned left when the pedestrians were 1/4 of the crosswalk. The cop didn't do anything again. When it was finally my turn to turn left, the light was still green but I know that eventually the light was going to turn yellow. Knowing that there was a cop behind me, I looked across and saw one car that was going across. when the car passed I started to turn left slowly. I was focusing on the cars that were trying to go across if there was someone that was trying to speed to go across, and I saw the pedestrians were almost at the curb in my peripheral. When I cross the first line of the crosswalk, I'm pretty sure that the pedestrians were already in the curb. Then the cops decided to turn on the siren and pulled me over. If i would have waited for a couple of seconds for the pedestrians to be in the curb, then wouldn't it be more dangerous for me to turn? AND the light would have been red and the cop would have given me a ticket for making a traffic or running a red light.
Do you think I have a chance in court ?