i live in kentucky and late at night a few days ago i was driving with a friend and i decided to try somthing in a rain slick parking lot. i pulled in and spun arond once, stopped, and tried to drive away but hydroplaned on a huge puddle and skidded across an access road into another parking lot. A cop just happened to see this and pulled me over and issued a citation for careless driving. I have a couple questions about this.
First of all, can the cop even issue me a ticket for careless driving b/c the kentucky definition of the violation states the violation should occur on a "public highway" and I was in a private parking lot.
second, the parking lot i was in was about the size of a football field and totally empty, so can i plead innocent saying that i wasn't endangering anyone/anything. (i made sure to check that there was no one close)
the cop didn't even ask what happened and I was too nervous at the time to explain to him that i had hydroplaned across the road, and now I suspect that is why i got a ticket instead of a warning, can i plead that as well
also the cops written description is misleading, he says I was traveling at a high rate of speed, and i was at 25 max, 20 when I hit the puddle. and he also made it sound like i was in the middle of a crowded parking lot, which i wasn't. Normally I would just pay the fine and take driving school, but if a student at my school gets a moving violation they lose their parking spot, and i can't afford to have that happen.
Thanks for any input
First of all, can the cop even issue me a ticket for careless driving b/c the kentucky definition of the violation states the violation should occur on a "public highway" and I was in a private parking lot.
second, the parking lot i was in was about the size of a football field and totally empty, so can i plead innocent saying that i wasn't endangering anyone/anything. (i made sure to check that there was no one close)
the cop didn't even ask what happened and I was too nervous at the time to explain to him that i had hydroplaned across the road, and now I suspect that is why i got a ticket instead of a warning, can i plead that as well
also the cops written description is misleading, he says I was traveling at a high rate of speed, and i was at 25 max, 20 when I hit the puddle. and he also made it sound like i was in the middle of a crowded parking lot, which i wasn't. Normally I would just pay the fine and take driving school, but if a student at my school gets a moving violation they lose their parking spot, and i can't afford to have that happen.
Thanks for any input