Error on Pa Citation

[marvin4677]

I recieved a citiation yesterday in Pa for going 67 in a 40 zone. The officer put he used a Robic Chronometer sc-800 Device to clock me. after doing reserch I found that this is a $50 stopwatch used for sporting events, basically a version of vascar. The violation took place at 11:30am on the time the officer put 2:31 which I have documentation that I was at work at that time. basically what the officer did is point a to point b on the road took me 2.31 secs and he put this number on two sections of the ticket. I just really want to know if he says the ticket was wrote up at 2:31 and I can prove without a doubt I could not have been there, does my case hold water, or does Pa say sorry for your luck.

 

[lwpat]

The only way for anyone to know is to try it and see what the judge says. Obviously you were there and the officer was there.

If you can prove that the officer cannot even tell time then you might get off or you might not. You will need to take a witness to support you being at work since the court may not allow the documentation without a witness.

Remember that traffic court is about collecting money and you were guilty of speeding.

 

[StakeDriver]

2.31 seconds???

Wow that officer has some reflexes and vision. That would indicate he only clocked you over 227' at 67mph. If he was perfect in start and stop location (your front bumber) and was 0.1 seconds off the answer changes 3mph. 67 mph is 98 feet per second.

OR did you mean he clocked you over 2 minutes 31 seconds? This would indicate he clocked you over 2.81 miles (a much more realistic and measurable distance).

 

[abezon]

And the officer needs even better vision to see your car cross the start & finish lines over a 2.81 mile distance!

The things you'd attack are the officer's point of view, his ability to accurately observe you passing the start & stop points (angle of view, other traffic interfering with sight, the presence of another blue car behind you that he thought was you when he started the timer), the measuring of the distance between A & B, and the officer's ability to start & stop the watch with perfect precission.

Don't actually ask the officer if he thinks he is precise -- argue that the reason sporting events changed from 3 people with stopwatches per lane to electronic timing is that the 3 people all got wildly different times.

40 mph is 58.67 feet/sec. You'd travel 136 feet in 2.31 seconds at 40 mph. Can you account for an extra 100 feet of travel or an unclocked second of time in a way that doesn't prove you were speeding but going less than 67 mph?