houston

79km/h in a 50km/h zone at 8.30am. ****ty thing is I'm usually never driving at this time. The pig was an A$$ and gave my friend the passenger a $138 fine for not wearing his seatbelt. My ticket was $200 CAN. Second ****ty thing was that my radar was sitting underneath the passenger seat. I had it there for a few days since I cleaned the car and just stored it there and just was lazy to take it out and use it. haha serves me better to buy one and not use it. First Speeding ticket in 6years.. Gonna have to fight this one.

JohnCL

Can speeders be turned into a non-moving violation for a few extra $$$ up there? My last ticket many years ago became a loud muffler ticket and didn't mean anything other than a dent in my wallet.

dgussin1

just out of curiosity, what are you going to fight? you were going 19km/h over the limit.

W210

Where about in Vancouver?

Childish///AMG

That "Totally" bites. I hope that you win in court

liz

in nj, you appear at the court (dated on the ticket), pay $385. they lower it to a slight traffic violation, which they don't report to DMV. well worth the cash. lol

AMGcrazy

I feel for you. Every speeder I've ever gotten (as an adult) was with the radar detector off and every time I kick myself. How easy is it to put the thing up?

houston

Actually I don't know what I'm gonna fight, but I'm hoping the cop doesn't show up in court. I've heard mix things about cops being paid to actually show up now to court even on their days off. I can't remember where I heard that from and dont' even know for sure if it's true. BTW. it's 29km/h over not 19km/h. You probably just made a typo.


Southbound on Granville Street heading towards the airport. I was on my way picking someone up from the airport. I was already late my friend had already been waiting for me.

W210

What's the cross street? Laser or radar? I always turn on the V1 religiously.

Try to reschedule the court date once or twice. If you see the cop showing up, save the time and just pay up then.

houston

7100 Granville.. I forgot the cross street.. It was a moto cop. He parked his bike somewhere and hide in the bushes with his radar. Wasn't even laser. The problem was I didn't even have my radar. If I did, forsure I would of gotten it and slowed down. He jumped right outta the bushes onto the street in front of my car, I almost ran him over.

W210

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=7100+G...0.048434&hl=en

Yeah, I always have the V1 on when travelling on Granville. No false alarm from 16th to Park making it a nice stretch.

Nickerz

There are plenty of things you can fight...

- Basic Speed Law

- Posted speed limit artificially low

- Was the officer's speed gun calibrated correctly

- Does the officer have enough hours of training for the equipment used to track your speed, etc, etc.

...the list goes on if you're creative and they work. At the least if these don't work, then best case, the officer doesn't show up in court which is what happened in my case when I went to court 3 days ago. My ticket was dismissed! But don't think that you don't have any leverage when it comes to fighting your ticket.

Nick

Exekious

You can knock off a fee km/h just due to the fact that the radar may not have been that well calibrated.