You also have the right to "face your accuser", the cop that issues the ticket technically must appear or the ticket is thrown out, however many times, it's one local cop that does all the tickets and unless you complain or demand to have the issuing cop present, it goes unchecked. "5 over and zero points" isn't the rule anymore when you go to court. The days of pleading not guilty and getting fines and points reduced is also getting much more difficult than it used to be. I have family members who are state police, but they are the old guard, the new guard police have less training in professionalism in my opinion. The tolerance for speeding has also gone way down, I think they got the word to bring in more tickets and money or face layoffs, otherwise maybe they don't have anything else to do! It's over the top in my opinion. If you can't yield, you must slow WAY down to avoid ticketing. The police play leap frog and go from one car to the next that haven't yielded and merged into the left lane. The PA State Police are now pulling you over for not getting in the left lane when there is an emergency vehicle off the road to the right, either a cop pulling someone over, ambulance, firetruck, road emergency truck, etc.
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He also said that in effect even the business and property owner gives away even his own right to use that space and only drivers with handicapped placards could use it even if the business was closed. I paid the ticket but was never completely convinced I got the straight truth from the officer. I could see that, and I was willing to pay the fine but then wanted to fight it in hopes of having it dismissed. The officer said that was so the DJ court wouldn't be clogged with people fighting tickets( naturally). All I could do was not pay it and then it would go to court as unpaid and then I could fight it, but I'd be paying double the fine for failure to pay and would be in contempt. I thought I had a reasonable chance at fighting it but was told I had no option of fighting the ticket in traffic court. It was a $50 fine which was 20 years ago. The officer showed up and issued the ticket 2 minutes after the store had closed.
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I parked in a handicap space, something I never do and never did since, but it was pouring rain and the business closed in 20 minutes, it was a store parking lot it was night and I honestly didn't want to run an extra 30 feet in the rain when every handicap space was empty and unused.
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I found a reference to a motion to vacate and return to trial but it's hard to think that will be worth the considerable time and effort for 2 points and not even sure it would be a valid and accepted action in PA.Īs a Pa resident, I once got a parking ticket where I worked.
If the cop made the mistake though you are probably stuck with it. You should at least scrutinize the citation carefully, understand what it's saying, and attempt to make sure it wasn't actually the record keeping people who made the mistake rather than the cop. In terms of other things like insurance though, they usually want no violations in last 3 years so you may not be able to switch and possibly could see rates go up. But there may still be other ways to get reduced points, none of which can happen now that you've already plead guilty.ģ points will be removed after a year of clean driving, so just go a year without violation and your points record will be reset. No sign of a ticket ever showed up on my driving record at all in that case. When I went to court with a 17 mph over limit ticket (3 or 4 points), the end result was the judge reduced it to 5 over meaning no points and I even got a small reduction in my fine. If you plead not guilty and go to court there are perhaps other possibilities for not getting points. Short of that, if you plead guilty and pay you do get 2 points for 10 over. (Since it was a local cop in a 25 zone it had to be at least 10 over for him to even stop a car.) That person was not given any points, but I do wonder if it's possible for the people at DMV to screw it up somehow. I have seen a citation where it was written for 5 over from the beginning but in a comments/notes section the cop wrote that the original clocked speed was x. There are a few odd things that can happen. If the citation is written as speeding (code section cited will be 3362 exceeding maximum speed) 65 mph in 55 zone then I don't think there's a way for the cop to specify no points. The cop either intentionally mislead or was mistaken or screwed up. The ticket would have to be written as 5 mph over limit or as a different violation to not get points.
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