75 in a 55 Speeding Ticket

[Jean]

Your options are IIRC... confirm with the court when you call them..

Pay it right away and have a point on your record - Don't do that.

Pay it and request a traffic school - you'll pay for the ticket + fee to take a traffic school + the fee to take the traffic school itself (do it online).

Pay it and request a trial by written declaration (you'll have to pay the full amount of the ticket, you'll know what it is by calling the court in a few days). You'll then have time to submit paperwork on your side of the story. Key here is to file for extensions. If you LOSE you can still take traffic school, if you WIN (and the only way you'll win this one is if the cop doesn't submit his side of the story) you'll get a refund and won't have to take traffic school. This is the method I took for my first ticket (not speeding) and won years ago. The second ticket I got last year I ended up loosing, but then took online traffic school to keep my record clean. Both of my tickets never had a $ amount written on them, I had to wait a few days and call the court to find out / confirm. You can find some of the codes online and figure out how much they'll cost, but most likely it will be more. For example, to file for a traffic school used to be $25 or so, now it's almost $60 for this processing fee alone, plus the cost of the traffic school (about $20 online).

Dress up and goto court to get it knocked down to no points and pay whatever fine they lower it to... (50/50 here).

Pay a lawyer to fight it. They'll basically try to plea it down to a lesser fine.

[ian e30 318is]

i just got one for 40 in a 25 and it was 220 and 285 with traffic school. so yours will probably be a little over 300 with traffic school im guessing. i was in cali too. good luck man. tickets suck

[e30nub]

Aren't you 17? Correct me if I'm wrong.

[CleanAzzE30z]

Ask for a trial by written declaration. Not only will it save you from going down there, but you have a great chance at beating it. Ive gotten people off of 10-15 tickets using this method, for various reasons. PM me and Ill even help you with your letter. Not too many people know about this and they obviously dont bother telling you about this options. Ive gotten off of like 4-5 tickets myself. My brother Ive gotten off another 4 and other random people Ive helped as well.



Mariano

[T Verdier]

I've had 5 speeding tickets in 4 years 3 in a camaro and 2 on a motorbike all freeways all around $300 I've been good for 2 years now so all of my points dropped off.

[lifeiskaos]

whats kinds of things would you say in a letter like that? "no i wasnt speeding, cops radar must be wrong"? or make some bs story? i want to get out of a recent ticket too =( not for speeding though

[Kristeun]

Aren't you 17? Correct me if I'm wrong.

Will be soon.

Ask for a trial by written declaration. Not only will it save you from going down there, but you have a great chance at beating it. Ive gotten people off of 10-15 tickets using this method, for various reasons. PM me and Ill even help you with your letter. Not too many people know about this and they obviously dont bother telling you about this options. Ive gotten off of like 4-5 tickets myself. My brother Ive gotten off another 4 and other random people Ive helped as well.



Mariano

Now that e30nub has mentioned it I remember hearing that you absolutely must show at court if your under 18. Gonna look into it..

[MG325i]

just be happy you didnt get tagged for driving in the carpool lane. cost me $450. and this was my first ticket.

[lifeiskaos]

just be happy you didnt get tagged for driving in the carpool lane. cost me $450. and this was my first ticket.

ahhh FUCK

[IRON-E]

I believe the price of $500 or so is about right plus if you want to have the ticket off your record you'll have to pay for the court to allow you to attend traffic school + pay the school like $80 and like $10 for the certificate but don't worry we all learn from our mistakes.


My last one cost me about $500 all together and couldn't have the point taken off.

[E30_fiend]

Here's the first problem. You were doing 20mph over the posted speed limit. This is considered exhibition of speed and wreckless driving. Everyone needs to quit side stepping around the reality of the situation. Something that no one has said is the fact that if you cant pay the fine in full, you wont be eligiable for traffic school. Which means you will have to take the points on your record and you cant go to traffic school and you'll till have to pay for the fine in full. I know this because when I was 17 I got a ticket for doing 110 in a 65 and got shafted in every which way possible. Had to take the points on my record and I couldnt take traffic school and still had to pay the fine with payments. Oh and I got the distinct pleasure of losing my license for 30 days.

All of this could very well happen to you. Even if you can pay it in full, you will more than likely lose your license for 30 days or more.

I just got my first ticket in 2 and a half years, just about a month ago. I was doing 65 in a 50. When my ticket came it was 220 for the fine then 260 for the option of taking traffic school. So in the end its going to cost me about 300 bucks. So to answer your question, dont be surprised by a 500+ dollar ticket because it is very likely to happen.


Oh and T Verdier, it takes much longer than 2 years for the points to clear off your record. try 7-10 years for them to clear.







Taylor

[Danny]

Again, u r fcked.

[E30_fiend]

Again, u r fcked.

^^^^^^
what he said

[T Verdier]

3 of my tickets were 20 mph over and I never lost my license
Also I'm going by my insurance as far as the state of California is concerned your probably right about the 7 to 10 years

[Rodoni]

I got my first ticket when I was 16. I had just gotten the e30 and I was shaky driving a 5 speed. I was at a stop sign and started to roll back just a little so I freaked out and tried to move fast.(there was someone behind me) I BARELY chirped 1st gear and got pulled over. The officer was a DICK. He said I shouldnt be driving a 5 speed if I dont know how to. Well you gotten learn some how right? He said he could give me exhibition of speed, but he gave me unsafe speed instead. I got my notice in the mail and it said I had to appear in court and I owed 360$. Well I showed up and I waited until it was my turn, I walked up to the podium and the Judge told me what my ticket was for and asked if I wanted to go to traffic school. I said yes and all charges were dropped except that I had to pay for traffic school, which was 120$.

I think it depends on the Judge whether or not you lose your license. As I was listening to other cases, some girl lost hers for 2 weeks, while another girl lost hers for 30 days.

Im unaware about paying for the fine AND traffic school though. I thought that they drop all charges and you just pay for traffic school. Thats what happened to me.