SIVIC 3

i like how the noob dmnall has an 05 gto and a yellow m6? you have a great life, on the internet.

TheMuffinMan

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i think you should go back to the accord section.


jk hahahha i had to crack a joke</TD></TR></TABLE>

&lt;-- I own a 06 Civic LX as well

Hermstick

i just got my ticket it says 16+ over the speed limit i should still fight this **** right

rileyrat

Just so you guys know, if you fight the ticket and the cop shows up you are pretty much screwed. Read up on your local laws, then maybe next time try not driving so fast.

Or you could take responsibility for what you did and stop

gus738

i too got a speeding ticket on my ex' 96 accord 4dr on my way to work , as some of you may know my car was wreck and i was driving on highway as bad luck was going on the speedomter went to 0 out of nowwhere and well going to work i decided to continue , their was no traffic no cars ( maybe 1 or 2 on slow lane) and out no where a cop signal me so i pulled over he talked to me (dont remember what he said its been a months) i told him that the speedometor broke out of nowhere and that i just left home to go to work he said someting that he quoted me for 90 or 90+ on a 65 mph then told me to hang tight as if luck wast any better i couldnt find the damn insureance paper (never been pulled over no tickets no records) for a bit longer he then wrote me ticket for 80 mph and wrote no proof of insurance.

i was pulled on 2/ someting almost month 3 and i got a letter by mail around month april or for a due payment of close to 1g!! without proof or 187 with proof
my due is on the 13th of this month and the car was insured the paper wasnt there
so what im trying to say is i dont mind paying the 187 as long as it does not go to my record and if that includes going to traffic school thats fine

any comments? no bashing no picking please

going from watsonville to salinas

Rainy City

I call BS on truckers going over 90+ mph on the freeway. I also call BS on everything else you say. You're probably just a kid making up a story asking "have you ever". Again, you have a GTO yet you roam on this forum to regulate as a noob, BS x2.


Don't be his lil bitch.


Google is your friend, use it. Quit bitching or crying, most of the people here will only somewhat lead you the right way. Rules and regs are different for every state. /End Thread. Not TECH RELATED.

wardseg6

I got caught going 98 on the freeway which is 65. Just go to court plead not guilty. Since the cop has no evidence on with with the radar gun thats in your favor. I plead not guilty and rather than having my insurance go up and points taken off my license the judge sent me to level 2 traffic court which was a 2 weekend traffic school where you do absolutely nothing but talk about unsafe driving to a driving instructor in a class of 20. Remember your innocent till proven guilty here in the USA. How the hell is the cop gonna prove you guilty without evidence? Oh and it was my first time going to court to fight a ticket. Its overrated. Its like a fast food line. You go in with a group of other people whos offenses are worse tha yours and say NOT GUILTY to a judge who just wants to go to lunch. Your making it harder than what it really is. I WAS GOING FASTER THAN YOU WERE! Oh so total i paid was 220 for traffic school and no points taken off my license simply for showing up and saying not guilty. Try it. Unless you wanna just not do anything and they rape you on insurance...

gus738

cant i go to traffic school? i never had any trouble on my record and well ill see what happens im going today to ask to do traffic school and pay ticket off....

once completed traffic school does it not get erased off your record right away?

chiggin

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by gus738 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i too got a speeding ticket on my ex' 96 accord 4dr on my way to work , as some of you may know my car was wreck and i was driving on highway as bad luck was going on the speedomter went to 0 out of nowwhere and well going to work i decided to continue , their was no traffic no cars ( maybe 1 or 2 on slow lane) and out no where a cop signal me so i pulled over he talked to me (dont remember what he said its been a months) i told him that the speedometor broke out of nowhere and that i just left home to go to work he said someting that he quoted me for 90 or 90+ on a 65 mph then told me to hang tight as if luck wast any better i couldnt find the damn insureance paper (never been pulled over no tickets no records) for a bit longer he then wrote me ticket for 80 mph and wrote no proof of insurance.

i was pulled on 2/ someting almost month 3 and i got a letter by mail around month april or for a due payment of close to 1g!! without proof or 187 with proof
my due is on the 13th of this month and the car was insured the paper wasnt there
so what im trying to say is i dont mind paying the 187 as long as it does not go to my record and if that includes going to traffic school thats fine

any comments? no bashing no picking please

going from watsonville to salinas </TD></TR></TABLE>

In South Carolina, as long as you can prove that you were insured at the time the ticket was written, the ticket will be dropped. I got a ticket for no proof of insurance once because I had forgotten to put my new insurance card in my wallet. I went to the courthouse the next day, showed them my current insurance card proving that I was insured when the ticket was written, and everything was dismissed.

I am not sure how it works where you live, but I would try doing what I did.

dmnall

Hey Sivic 3,
Do you even know what a 05 GTO Yellow M6 means?? 2005 Pontiac GTO with a Manual 6 speed Trans and the color is Yellow Jacket aka Devil Yellow! Which I no longer have sorry son, I now own a 08 Si because I am suing my finance company that I had my goat financed through! You can call me a noob all day as long as you want, because it does not bother me and I am not a kid 28 going on 29 this month! If you want to see my last 2 cars and my current trucks...

GTO I had!


02 Camaro Z28 A4 *AUTOMATIC*



My 1968 Chevrolet C10 Long Bed Fleetside



My 1968 Chevrolet C10 SWB Stepside



08 Si
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When I was driving to Arizona back in May 07, for my friends wedding, I was driving my dad's 99 C5 Corvette Manual and I was doing 85+ still getting passed by Big Rigs out there *after the California Border*



Calling me a kid when I am at work is pretty funny! My girlfriend on here got me looking at hondas because after I had gone through some bs with CSC Logic/Wells Fargo on my goat. There is not really anything that interests me on GMs side for new cars because the one car I would buy, I will admit, I don't want to spend 20K more then what I make a year on a car *new Z06 Vette*, the G8 GT does not really interest me until a manual is available! Sorry no Cobalt for me or G5! I am looking forward to seeing the new Camaro Z28 Convertible! So right now I am in a Honda Civic Si Sedan! I personally do not want to drive the 68 trucks because I am in the process of redoing the short bed and the long bed get 4 mpg in town and 6 mpg on the freeway and will not run on anything less then 91! As well as I want to drive something I don't have to work on everytime I turn around which is why I bought a new car versus going after another GTO which I did not want to deal with the issues I had dealt with since June of 05 *when I bought the yellow one NEW!*

Rainy City,
I wish I was just a kid and doing the Have you ever, but unfortunately I do not come here to cause any problems nor do I lie about anything I post. Read the above what I just wrote! I was speaking the truth about speed tickets, I have just finished fighting my first ticket which the cop did not show up and the second one I just turned in my Trial By Declaration for my radar ticket!

It is funny where people want to call BS when they do not know me nor where I live!

Cheers,
Charlie


Modified by dmnall at 11:59 AM 6/11/2008

RICO_

SIVIC3 i think you owe this guy an apology.

cashdealer07

There's so many ppl today that whenever they get a ticket they just give up, summon the cash, and pay up to the municipals. If you just take the time to fight it and say no, the judge will eventually just either a. give up and drop it or b. lower the ticket price dramatically with no penalties. THAT is of course... IF the lazy officers actually decide to show up

gus738

what are the chances that the cop will not show up? better yet if their was 2 cops in 1 car when i was pulled over how would you aproch the situtation? btw i also couldnt find the dam papers for the proof of insurance (but it does have coverage) and i got cited for that too......

oh and besides making court dates and not pleding guilty but it turns out that the cop shows up what would happen? would things get worse? i'v never had any record on my life until this

hiwastar

When you get a ticket the court date is scheduled around the officers' schedule. IE the first court date you get is a date that s/he will be scheduled to work. So chances are good that s/he will show up to the trial. This is why the first thing you ALWAYS do when you get a ticket that you plan to fight is ARRANGE FOR A DIFFERENT TRIAL DATE. At that point your chances of the officer not showing is much greater as, unless you live in a small town, there is a chance that one or both of the officers may not show up. If the officer doesn't show, the case is immediately dropped (no prosecution for the state). Since the officer who issued the ticket for you had a partner, BOTH must show up to trial in order to prosecute. You are also given the option of receiving a supporting deposition. Depending on your state this may have been issued along with the ticket. You should closely look over that and dispute any inaccuracies.

If the officer does show, you typically will have the opportunity to speak to either the District Attorney or the Assistant District Attorney. If you feel you dont have a chance in hell of fighting the ticket, your best bet is to plea bargain with them and plead guilty to a lesser offense. Your goal here is to get an offense that DOES NOT ADD POINTS to your license. Points = increased insurance rates. This means that if you plea down to an offense with 150$ fine but three points on your license versus a 300$ fine with 0 points you WANT THE ONE WITH NO POINTS even though, initially the cost is greater.

Now, you state this is your first offense....this means that the odds of you pleading guilty to a lesser offense are GREATLY increased. The truth is most DAs dont want to go through trial, they just want to get it over with and collect the money. So you can either plead not guilty and speak to them at the courthouse before you officially take the stand or write the DAs office and ask for a form to plea bargain.

I can tell you in most cases, a speeding ticket is a slam dunk case for the state. About the only way you can get off on these scott free is if you can prove the instruments they were using were not calibrated. You can ask the department that issued the ticket for the calibration records on the speed radaring equipment, if it hasnt been calibrated in the last X months (6 I believe for New York - your state I do not know) then you can cite that there is no way to know if the machine was working. Also, an officers favorite opener when issuing a ticket is "Do you know why I pulled you over?" I hope you said NO and then they will say "I pulled you over for speeding - do you know how fast you were going?" Now, if you said ANYTHING over the posted speed limit - Your basically screwed - you just self incriminated yourself. IE if they say you were doing an 88 in a 65 and you said no sir I was only doing 72....guess what, you just admitted to speeding. If the speed limit is 65 and your doing 66 - the court can find you guilty. It happened to me - a 31 in a 30. Now my only responses are "Yes sir/ma'am" and "No sir/ma'am"

Honestly, in my opinion, your best bet is to plead to a lesser offense at trial. However any of you who say "Well you did it so you should pay" clearly have no idea how the justice system works. ALWAYS go to court. You have NOTHING to lose and everything to gain.

If you go to trial and dont have even a shred of evidence to support your not guilty plea the worst that happens to you is your found guilty of the charge against you. Big deal. Thats the same thing that happens when you plead guilty by mail. You pay their salaries and it is your right as an American to have a trial. You are crazy to not exercise that right.

Now I am not a lawyer but I do unfortunately live in a small town where the officers write tickets for anything and everything they can to collect revenue. To date I have been to court for 6 speeding tickets, 12 loud exhausts, 4 lift violations (on my old mud truck), 1 improper equipment violation, (truck again) tint violation and a noise ordinance violation. I have gone to court for every ticket I have ever been issued as the large majority of them were totally ridiculous. Of ALL of those, I have only had to pay fines on two speeding tickets - one is the 31 in a 30 and the other was a plea down to a standing and stopping (75$ ticket). Dont listen to the people that say "your guilty own up to it" Thats exactly what the police want you to do. Fight your tickets, always. Good luck

hiwastar

Also, your insurance company should be able to provide you with the papers for your policy and when your vehicle was covered. If it was covered from 1/1/08 1200am to 7/1/08 1200am and you got your ticket on 5/1/08 2:54 pm(as an example) the ticket will be dropped immediately.

gus738

thank you hiwastar for a great post, now let me ask you this, if i'm driving a car that is not mine but the insurance says i am coverd as long as i have a valid DL. but im not added to the list of insurances how does this take place? because i went to the court and was told that the "proof of insurance" had to had my name or a letter saying that anyone else besides the driver is coverd as long as they have a valid Dl. also when i was pulled over and the police said "do you know why i pulled you over" i said " no i didnt " he said that he quoted me at 90" on a 65 and i told him that "i was un aware of that because the speedometor was not working."
oh and i did not tell him but their was no cars at the time as well.

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hiwastar

Thats more a question for yours and his insurance.

If I am driving my mothers car and I get into an accident, my insurance pays for the damages.

My brother was driving my car (obviously not listed on my insurance) to go pick up a friend one day and ended up hitting some black ice and totalled the car. His insurance paid for it not mine. I would say as long as YOU are insured you should be fine, but it really is a question for your insurance company as it is their job to know all the ins and outs of insurance coverage with regards to the law. I am guessing though that if 1. You were covered under your own insurance at the time of the ticket and 2. The persons car that you were driving was also insured then you have nothing to worry about.

gus738

i have no insurance and the car that i drove does have insurance (before i got pulled over) and that insurance does cover other drivers taht are licensed Drivers and reletives .

hiwastar

Then you need that in writing from the insurance company covering the car that states that the policy covers people with valid drivers license irregardless of their own insured status.

gus738

i got that letter last night im only hoping thats enough. ... once i have that paper should i just pay the 211 ( including traffic school) or should i set up a date for the court?

my only regards is my point to my record so let me ask this insted. If court is set up and they dismiss the ticket i wont have points or record right? now if the cop shows up and they find me guilty from there what? do i loose the ablitiy to do traffic school ?

fianly if i do a bargin does that remove the points record?


traffic school erases the speeding ticket right?

THANKS !!

hiwastar

Also, the verbage is tricky. If it states valid drivers license and relatives it can be interpreted two ways:
1. Only people who are relatives with valid license (IE related to the driver AND having a valid license)
2. People who are relatives with valid license as well as people who are not relatives but have valid licenses. (IE related to the driver AND having a valid license, as well as non-related drivers who have a valid license)

The devil is in the details so make sure that distinction is clearly illustrated.

hiwastar

Its different for every state.

Being your first offense, truly your best option is to write the DA's office and ask for a reduction (plea bargain). I doubt highly you can take this to court and expect to win with the officer being there to testify, as I said speeding tickets are almost always slam dunks for the state. I would say you should be thinking about damage control at this point and try to get away with not having any points on your record as the increase in insurance rate will be far worse than the fine.

My advice, having been through this before - Write the DA for a reduction.

gus738

i dont know if my last post made any sense anyways im out of time the due date for the ticket is up today. and even if i did write to reduced the ticket i should still do traffic school right?

hiwastar

In NY traffic school is good for like a 5% deduction on your insurance rate or is good for up to 3 points off your license.

If CA is the same, then traffic school is only necessary to remove the points if you get them. If you are charged with speeding and are found guilty, you will definitely get points, in which case driving school should definitely be done. If you dont get points then the only benefit of doing it is for a lower insurance premium. For me, 5% off my premium amounts to less than 20$ so for me it makes no sense. If you are younger it may be worth it (I am 28)

Also you say the due date is today that means one of two things here in my state: Your window for pleading not guilty is up today or your court appearance for pleading guilty/not guilty is today. If you cant write the DA (which it sounds like you cannot at this point) then I would go to the courthouse and speak to the clerk and ask what your options are. I'm willing to bet that they will tell you your best bet is to plead not guilty and attempt a plea with the DA on your appointed trial date.

PS: If you show up to trial on your date, having entered a not guilty plea, pay attention and look around - do you see the cop?? If he isn't there PROCEED WITH THE TRIAL. Instant case dismissal. If he is, ask the clerk when you sign in for court if the DA is speaking with people re: plea bargains and plead guilty to a lesser offense. that does not involve points

gus738

well traffic school is only like 24 bucks and i have until today to setup a court date based on what the letter says. im 19