Durham NC,
I was pulled by motocycle cop coming at me from the other side of a four lane road with a turn lane in the middle. I had just over taken a truck and and postal vehicle, which were slowing to turn off the road, and as I crested the hill and he had to clock me as I was moving back into the right lane from passing on the left (so I had forward and lateral movement simultaneously).
Said he initially clocked me at 55 but I had slowed to 53 when it locked and wrote the ticket for 49 in a 35.
I seriously doubt I was traveling that fast as I was already starting to slow down and enter a gas station, which is where he pulled up behind me.
Does it matter that the officer put down I was driving a Mercedes when I was driving a Lincoln and put the wrong nearest intersection?
Seems to me that the document is invalid and shouldn’t be allowed or are they allowed to make mistakes?
What about a road that was recently widened, doubling the lanes but they didn’t change the speed limit to reflect the new traffic flow (as little as 6 mo ago it was a two lane road which is now 5 as mentioned above).
Would that be a situation where they should have redone the speed survey since the completion of the road?
Thank you,
Keith
PS. As I stated above I have a squeeky clean record and I've been driving for a long time, but I have a teen who will start driving soon and I don't want my insurance to go any higher than it already will...
I was pulled by motocycle cop coming at me from the other side of a four lane road with a turn lane in the middle. I had just over taken a truck and and postal vehicle, which were slowing to turn off the road, and as I crested the hill and he had to clock me as I was moving back into the right lane from passing on the left (so I had forward and lateral movement simultaneously).
Said he initially clocked me at 55 but I had slowed to 53 when it locked and wrote the ticket for 49 in a 35.
I seriously doubt I was traveling that fast as I was already starting to slow down and enter a gas station, which is where he pulled up behind me.
Does it matter that the officer put down I was driving a Mercedes when I was driving a Lincoln and put the wrong nearest intersection?
Seems to me that the document is invalid and shouldn’t be allowed or are they allowed to make mistakes?
What about a road that was recently widened, doubling the lanes but they didn’t change the speed limit to reflect the new traffic flow (as little as 6 mo ago it was a two lane road which is now 5 as mentioned above).
Would that be a situation where they should have redone the speed survey since the completion of the road?
Thank you,
Keith
PS. As I stated above I have a squeeky clean record and I've been driving for a long time, but I have a teen who will start driving soon and I don't want my insurance to go any higher than it already will...
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