Speeding ticket?

I'm not sure how it works in Canada, but here in California if you can show you weren't even on the road at the time stated on the ticket, you cna easily get it dismissed by the judge. Just don't say ANYTHING else, just that your were at work and your car was in the parking lot at that date and time. If you can get coworkers to corroborate your story, even better.

If the Mounties have the clock set wrong on their machine, that's THEIR problem and YOUR gain.

Just don't speed past that camera again, OK? And take it easy, you've got the rest of your life to have fun.

If they have a clear picture of your license, then you will be hard-pressed to get them to accept an "it wasn't me, I was at work" defense. Since the ticket is to the owner of the car, it didn't have to be you driving -- just your car.

However, I understand your point about the camera being set up incorrectly. A reasonable judge might be willing to consider the possibility that if the camera date was set up incorrectly, other aspects of the unit (such as speed calibration) might be set incorrectly as well.

Here's the problem: generally, there is a unit that measures speed, and it triggers the camera when speeding is detected. Since they're not the same unit, poor setup of one (the camera) does not imply the potential for poor setup of the other (the radar). It's likely, in fact, that there are regulations in place that govern the setup of the radar unit (regular inspections and calibrations) that do not apply to the camera unit -- it's just a camera and makes no measurements, so does not need to be calibrated.

So, at the end of the day, you're going to be trying to get off on a technicality. I wouldn't have high hopes for this working.

It is likely that your only reasonable defense would be to challenge the accuracy of the speed measurement; specifically, you would ask the plaintiff to produce proof that the radar was in fact calibrated appropriately.

However, there are two flies in this ointment: first, you have no proof whatsoever to suggest that the camera might be miscalibrated other than your insistence that might be, so the judge is unlikely to allow your request, and second, the courts are set up to process tickets like this in favor of efficiency (as a revenue source) and as a deterrent, rather than towards fairness and justice.

In short, since you admit you were speeding anyway, in the short term you should simply pay the fine, and adjust your driving habits accordingly.

In the long term, however, perhaps this will motivate you to pay more attention to political activity -- for instance, who decided that these photo radar units should be used, and did you vote for them?

If you weren't on the road, then you should fight the fine. You might save yourself the money and other consequences, at the worst you'll have to pay the fine. You do need some type of proof that you weren't on that road though...

Yeah, it doesn't cost you anything to fight it. And murderers get off on techincalities like that, I can't see why you can't get off on a technicality for speeding. Your insurance rates will go up if you conceed to this ticket, and may never go down again. So I say, hire a lawyer even to present this...protect your driving record like you protect your credit.

Of course you cna fight the ticket and win but the question is how important is the principle of the thing to you.

In the U.S. tickets follow the car, not the driver, so you have to pay up no matter what. Good luck, though.

well if you was speeding i would pay it

im about to be in the same situation... fight it!