Well, at 23 after nearly 7 years of driving on my own, I finally got my first speeding ticket
I knew that Mustang was gonna get me in trouble eventually
Was driving with my friend, and the Stang rides VERY smoothly. We were chatting away on I-95 in Summerton, SC about everything and anything and I came over a hill and saw a black Charger sitting facing the wrong way on an on-ramp ... I looked at the speed on the GPS, saw I was doing 84 ... in a 70. Really hoped it wasn't a cop, said as much, and as soon as I did he flipped on the lights! So I just pulled over, knew it was for me since I was the only car going by him at the time!
He asked me if I knew I was doing 86 (what he says he clocked me at). I said no, because I really hadn't realized how fast I was going until I saw him and looked at the GPS (my speedo is off a little so I go by that usually) and saw him. So he took my license and registration and went back to his car. I was hoping he'd be easy on me because we were both very polite and my record is clean - no accidents or tickets. He came back finally with a blue piece of paper - darn! Told me he didn't give me the $445 fine, just the $185 ... and FOUR POINTS if I pay it out and don't go to court. If I go to court, he said he'd give me a point reduction for being pleasant, and that he understood Mustangs were easy to lose track of speed in. Suggested I use cruise control (which I HAD been using since I got on the Interstate, but had turned it off behind slower cars and never turned it back on a few miles earlier), and that I keep my speed "in the 70s". Saw A LOT more cops along the way sitting in the median, unfortunately I had to get caught by the first one we saw
Getting a traffic lawyer and hopefully they can get it knocked down to a non-moving violation, which will probably be a higher fine, but that's better than higher insurance and points on my driving record. I certainly didn't forget cruise control after that!
So, have you ever gotten a speeding ticket? How old were you for the first one? Did you pay it out, go to court and plead it down, or get a traffic lawyer?
My friend that was with me is notorious for speeding. She's insisting on paying me half the fine since she said "if I were driving, it would have been like 90 in a 70 instead!" (Which is true, the previous week she averaged 88mph on a trip we took!) I told her not to worry about it, but she keeps insisting
Its very nice of her, I'm grateful to have a wonderful friend but don't want her paying for my mistake, I was driving and speeding, not her. She was lucky and didn't get caught (and usually does
she's gotten about 4 tickets this year already), I was overdue for one I guess.
He asked me if I knew I was doing 86 (what he says he clocked me at). I said no, because I really hadn't realized how fast I was going until I saw him and looked at the GPS (my speedo is off a little so I go by that usually) and saw him. So he took my license and registration and went back to his car. I was hoping he'd be easy on me because we were both very polite and my record is clean - no accidents or tickets. He came back finally with a blue piece of paper - darn! Told me he didn't give me the $445 fine, just the $185 ... and FOUR POINTS if I pay it out and don't go to court. If I go to court, he said he'd give me a point reduction for being pleasant, and that he understood Mustangs were easy to lose track of speed in. Suggested I use cruise control (which I HAD been using since I got on the Interstate, but had turned it off behind slower cars and never turned it back on a few miles earlier), and that I keep my speed "in the 70s". Saw A LOT more cops along the way sitting in the median, unfortunately I had to get caught by the first one we saw
So, have you ever gotten a speeding ticket? How old were you for the first one? Did you pay it out, go to court and plead it down, or get a traffic lawyer?
My friend that was with me is notorious for speeding. She's insisting on paying me half the fine since she said "if I were driving, it would have been like 90 in a 70 instead!" (Which is true, the previous week she averaged 88mph on a trip we took!) I told her not to worry about it, but she keeps insisting