What is the name of your state? Georgia *My home state is Illinois and I was heading back to school in Florida.
It seems that every lawyer I've called keeps telling me they don't deal with speeding tickets and every single person I've called and tried to get information from seems to be very rude and they don't know much more than I do about it.
I got a ticket for 90 in a 70 in southern Georgia on Jan 3rd at 1am. I'm sure I was speeding some but there's no way I was doing 90+ because I saw some headlights coming up behind me and I had already slowed down some from the 85mph I was doing and I was going to move into the right lane. My guess is I was probably doing 80. The thing is, I wasn't using cruise control, the cop was in a SUV that was coming up behind me, my radar detector beeped for only a second with a very weak signal, and he wrote a couple wrong things on the ticket.
I wasn't sure if radar detectors were legal in Georgia so I knocked it under the seat just in case. He didn't use laser, he used radar. Now if he had really got me somehow while he was in the lane next to me coming up from behind then even in that situation the radar would read full strength.
He wrote on the ticket that it was medium traffic and it was 1am Sunday night, do you really think the traffic was medium? No, there weren't any cars within at least a half mile radius of me. He also said he clocked me at 95 but would knock it down to 90 to 'do me a favor'. He would be doing me a favor by giving me a warning since the conditions obviously weren't optimal in this situation. I'm pretty sure it was kind of foggy at the time too but he wrote down 'clear'.
The killer thing is that they want to charge me $327 for the ticket! That is insane. It seems like they make up prices depending on how much money they need because the only way to find out the price is by calling the number on the back. Of course if it was 1mph less and it fell into the other category then it would probably be normal price but no one will give me any information on how much other tickets cost and just general information about Georgia's traffic system.
I have called so many lawyers and people in Georgia and they have been the most rude and uninformed people I have every talked to. I'm about ready to send off the money order because the court date is Feb 7th and I have school full time and don't have time for this anymore. It sickens me to know they can slap whatever fines on you and whatever the cop says goes because it will cost a minimum of $400 for a lawyer to even do anything with a speeding ticket. I was hoping to take traffic school online to stop it from affecting my insurance but apparently no one knows anything about that either.
Well, I've typed a bit more than I wanted to but if anyone has any information on it or had a similar experience, please let me know.
Thanks.
-Andrew-
It seems that every lawyer I've called keeps telling me they don't deal with speeding tickets and every single person I've called and tried to get information from seems to be very rude and they don't know much more than I do about it.
I got a ticket for 90 in a 70 in southern Georgia on Jan 3rd at 1am. I'm sure I was speeding some but there's no way I was doing 90+ because I saw some headlights coming up behind me and I had already slowed down some from the 85mph I was doing and I was going to move into the right lane. My guess is I was probably doing 80. The thing is, I wasn't using cruise control, the cop was in a SUV that was coming up behind me, my radar detector beeped for only a second with a very weak signal, and he wrote a couple wrong things on the ticket.
I wasn't sure if radar detectors were legal in Georgia so I knocked it under the seat just in case. He didn't use laser, he used radar. Now if he had really got me somehow while he was in the lane next to me coming up from behind then even in that situation the radar would read full strength.
He wrote on the ticket that it was medium traffic and it was 1am Sunday night, do you really think the traffic was medium? No, there weren't any cars within at least a half mile radius of me. He also said he clocked me at 95 but would knock it down to 90 to 'do me a favor'. He would be doing me a favor by giving me a warning since the conditions obviously weren't optimal in this situation. I'm pretty sure it was kind of foggy at the time too but he wrote down 'clear'.
The killer thing is that they want to charge me $327 for the ticket! That is insane. It seems like they make up prices depending on how much money they need because the only way to find out the price is by calling the number on the back. Of course if it was 1mph less and it fell into the other category then it would probably be normal price but no one will give me any information on how much other tickets cost and just general information about Georgia's traffic system.
I have called so many lawyers and people in Georgia and they have been the most rude and uninformed people I have every talked to. I'm about ready to send off the money order because the court date is Feb 7th and I have school full time and don't have time for this anymore. It sickens me to know they can slap whatever fines on you and whatever the cop says goes because it will cost a minimum of $400 for a lawyer to even do anything with a speeding ticket. I was hoping to take traffic school online to stop it from affecting my insurance but apparently no one knows anything about that either.
Well, I've typed a bit more than I wanted to but if anyone has any information on it or had a similar experience, please let me know.
Thanks.
-Andrew-