Ive got a speeding ticket, I was going 120km/h in a 100Km/h zone. Ive heard people going to court and fighting it off. But how do you do this because I was really going 120km/h in 100Km/h zone. Is it true that if the cops that gave the ticket doesnt show up to court that the ticket will be dropped.

What do I do in court, what do I tell them even if the cops dont show up or if they do.

THANKS
SHAWN

 

Yes it is true that if the cop doesn't show up, you will probly get let off all together.

To go about fighting the ticket, you need to find an agency that does exactly that. There are probly a bunch of them in TO. Once you find an a company who will fight the ticket, they will go to court for you, and you pay them.

 

if you appear in court, they will make you pay the specified amount, but will drop the demerit points.

 

Why bother fighting it?

Youwere speeding.
They will ask you if you were speeding.
You will say yes.
They will make you pay.

And you ahve just wasted the courts time, your time and the cops time.

 

You fight it because there is a chance that you dont have to pay it, and if they do make you pay the fine in court, you might get the demerit points and what not, therefore possibly saving a lot of money in the long run because your insurance wont go up.

 

No, the officer no longer has to show up in court. All he must do is give an affadavit that the court must take in as sworn evidence. The demerit points will also still be there, they do not go away either. If the officer can prove that you were speeding (and he can with documented proof), don't waste the courts and officers time and of course our tapayers dollars.
You sped, you know it, smarten the **** up and don't waste peoples time. The only chance that you have, and it is not bloody likely, is to have the fine lowered from the already lowest ticket amount there is.

[ May 26, 2005, 06:17 PM: Message edited by: MR2NR ]

 

Id like to add some advice based on my own experience. First, Dont go to points, xcopper, or anywhere else like them. They dont do anything you cant do for yourself. And you can do it for free, they charge too much.

Second, 20km/h over the limit is a 3 point ticket, the fine means nothing, it's the points you dont want as you'll end up paying more to the insurance company over the next few years than the actual fine. What you do is check off the not guilty box on the ticket and send it in. They'll give you a court date in the mail, and then you wait many months (there is a J.P. shortage in ontario right now so if they schedule your trial more than 8 months away, let me know and i'll help you get rid of the ticket altogether.) When the trial date comes, you dress neatly, arrive at the court room at least 15 minutes early, go in, walk up to the front and speak to the prosecutor. Be polite, tell him/her your name, he'll find your file, and you tell him you'd like to plea to 115km/h in a 100km/h zone. He'll say that's acceptable, have a seat and wait until your name is called. You've just reduced your ticket to $50 and zero points. Cheers. That's the easiest way to go about it.

 

MR2NR, im sure you have different provincial laws in BC. Here in ontario, the cop does have to show up. As for a waste of my tax dollars (not yours, traffic tickets are provincial offenses) Giving him a ticket for doing 120km/h in a 100km/h zone is the biggest waste of tax money. On our 400 series highways, a car doing 120km/h is the slowest one on the road. If everyone is going 120+, what right does the cop have to single people out? It's rediculous. Shouldnt that cop be fighting crime or doing something useful? Oh, and his chance of having the fine reduced,more like 90%+. Ive never had it not work, and ive had much more extreme cases.

 

^^^^ If you are not capable of driving within the limits as defined under the laws of the Province in question, first I question your priveledge to drive (not a right), next I encourage you to run for the Provincial electorate so that you can change the laws. Until then quit whining and obey the laws as they apply. The laws are there not to just enforce them on those that choose to break them, but to protect those of us that don't break them, from those that do.

Is it not a crime to do above the speed limit....survey says....yes it is....it is against the law which is why you get a ticket when you are caught. Is it against the law to speed and get in an accident and kill someone? Survey says....why yes it is again, how about that. VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER is something that most often is brought about by SPEEDING.

SPEED KILLS and it killed my best friend and left a 4 year old with no father. Imagine how many times I pleaded with him to obey the speed limit.

As far as the ticket goes, if you choose to speed, you choose to take the fine and points that go along with it. Singling you out means that you did something to catch the officers attention that was over and above the nature of the other traffic in the same vicinity. Ticket deserved.

Pipes has some good advice that you should follow, always be polite and on time. You sped, your guilty, pay the man and move on with life.

[ May 26, 2005, 09:55 PM: Message edited by: MR2NR ]

 

I would fight it. I would fight every ticket anybody ever gets. My last 3 tickets where pretty huge and I went to court and they dropped 1 ticket and also dropped the points for the 2 tickets. I had to pay a fine but it's better then losing 6 points.

I say fight it. Don't agree to speeding 20 over.

Basically, u talk to "legal aid" before and they will say what they can do without going to court if it's enough for you then you see a judge and pay the fine