How do i get out of a speeding ticket?

Question

I was caught on radar, in Illinois, going 15 over the limit. What should I say at court if I plead not guilty? Assuming the officer does not show up.

Answer 1

That you were trying to adjust and set your Cruise Control therefore your speed went up some as you were distracted with adjusting it.

Answer 2

If you were busted (and you know if you were) plea guilty abmit it was a mistake.  Ask the Judge or Magistrate for defensive driving course.  Most states will let you pay the court fee, take the class (usually a weekend course), then avoid tickets for whatever the probation period is.  If you do, you won't get as many points and (it'll still be on your record) but wont count against you on insurance reports, etc.

Answer 3

Close to impossible - seeing as how they have proof.  Officer not being there won't help you in this case.  Just pay the ticket - it's like what 75$ there?  Go to traffic school if you have that option.

Answer 4

You can't plead not guilty unless you can prove it wasn't you or that you were in a life or death situation.

And if it wasn't any of the above, you shouldn't be trying to be out of it because you put lives in danger and you should pay for it.

Answer 5

If they got u on radar then thats all the evidence they need. How are you going to dispute that. You can try and fight it with a good lawyer, but with the money you'd invest in doing all that, you could have already paid the court fine. Plus after you go to traffic school, and sucessfully complete it w/o any further offences, you don't get any  points taken off your licensce. Stop speeding, its dangerous and your putting others in danger too.

Answer 6

If the officer doesn't show up you get let off.  This is rare because it goes against the cop.  If he is there you need  a lawyer unless you have proof you were not speeding.  If you go there and say the cop is wrong you will lose.  The state wants you to pay one way or another.  A lawyer, the ticket or something else.   It's a business, that's all it is.

Answer 7

Get an attorney to take care of it. Unless your poor or live in a trailor with your inlaws. Crack is whack.

Answer 8

Hope that the cop doesn't show up to the trial.  If he or she doesn't everything should be straight.

Answer 9

If the officer isn't there plea not guilty. Say the radar was wrong and you were not going 15 mph over.

If the officer is there plea guilty, apologize, and ask if they will reduce the ticket so that it won't go on your insurance, then ask if you can do some kind of community service to pay off the ticket (washing patrol cars or something)

If you plea not guilty you're dismissed until a later date which means the officer could show up.

Fighting it with the officer there would be tough, you'd have to convince the judge the officer clocked another car, or you were in a higher speed zone than what is on the ticket.

Not impossible, usually if you show up and act respectful they're more apt to cut you some slack

Answer 10

Only way is if you can prove that wasn't you in the car.

Answer 11

Use a time machine. It's not 100%, it's very dangerous and many theories conclude that it is not possible, however it's better than paying a speeding ticket.

Answer 12

tell them that you dropped something and when you went to pick it up off the floor of the car, you accidentally stepped harder on the accellerator causing you to go faster quickly and it was just at the worst time

Answer 13

Verify the speed gun that caught you is calibrated correctly and have proof your were not speeding.

Answer 14

plea not guilty then they mail u a new court day   it usally gets ruduced to parking and then accept driving school plea gulity to that and then a fine and driving skool and ur all set     thats how it works alot of time  in ny

Answer 15

if it is your first offense, tell the judge that you would like to say that you are guilty under special circumstances.  Otherwise, I would tell him that you would do traffic classes, or community service to have the offense taken off of your record, but you will still have to pay.

Answer 16

keep getting extensions until you reached the limit. by then about 5 months will have passed and the officers memory will be fuzzy. h**l, he most likely wont even show. point is, it will give you time to research your case. take pictures of the location,video tape other cars in the region given the same conditions. do your homework and present a good case. be diligent.

Answer 17

My speedometer was broken and I was heading to the garage to get it fixed and didn't realize I was speeding.  lol  This really happened to me and I got out of the ticket when the I showed the cop the speedometer in the back seat.  Good luck fighting the ticket.  A radar gun is very difficult to beat.  Pay the fine and stop speeding.

Answer 18

your screwed.

Answer 19

you were in a rush?

Answer 20

Well number one which is obvious, don't speed. You probably won't get out of the ticket, unless you have a good reason.

Answer 21

pay the fine and save yourself the court time.

Answer 22

The officer will most likely show up, that's there job. Hopefully it's your first offense then just let the judge know you'll pay the fine but want your points back. 15 isn't even speeding to fast in my book.

Answer 23

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Answer 24

Say guilty, and don't speed again.

Answer 25

say you were rushing to the doughnut shop to get him a box of doughnuts.

Answer 26

you weren't payin attention to the speed. and that yo completely deserve the ticket, but then politely ask if there's another way u can take care of it.

Answer 27

Pay the fine and go to traffic school.

Answer 28

If you plead "not guilty" and the cop "does" show up.

He does get paid "overtime." And we all need that.

You will, pay the fine, plus all court costs.

If he does "not show up. The judge "may" reduce the fine.

Answer 29

show some cleavege

Answer 30

Don't speed, or go fast enough to not get caught.

Tell the judge your speedometer is off by a little and sometimes you can't tell if you are at the right speed, and that you were going to work to save up money to get it fixed when the officer caught you.

That, or say the cop   (or any car) was hanging out off the road during a turn and you couldn't see him, and you had to speed around it to avoid a collision and that is when he pulled you over.

If that isn't good enough, say that you were only going over the limit 5 but the cop got you on radar when the other car past you going 15 over and the cross section fouled up the radar and the cop thought it was you.

Answer 31

If they caught you on radar, you're most likely boned. People usually only fight a speeding ticket when the cop only JUDGED their speed, using his eyes.