I got my first speeding ticket. Not sure what to do?

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I'm 19, I have a clean driving record and this is the first time I get pulled over. I was going 87 mph in a 65 zone on the dessert in CA. The cop told me since he was in a good mood he just wrote 77. He made me sign a paper, but he said I wasn't pleading guilty. A court date was scheduled but it's kinda far from where I live. What is the best way to get over this without affecting my driving record or how is this going to affect my driving record/insurance costs?

If the best way to solve this is going to court, then I guess I could do something to be there

Penelope · Accepted Answer

Consider yourself lucky that the Officer who Cited you was in a good mood. Had he put down your real speed, you would have to pay a higher fine. (Fines tend to have a positive correlation relative to the difference between the cited speed and the speed limit. In other words, the more you break the speed limit by, the bigger the fine.)

Also, it might have had a stiffer effect on your insurance rates had he cited you for 87 in a 65, rather that 77 in a 65.

Signing the ticket is not an admission of guilt, it is merely an acknowledgment that you are being cited.

As for settling the citation, you have two options: Go to court, with the hope that the Judge will reduce or dismiss the citation (I wouldn't consider a dismissal likely.) or send in the ticket with the "Bail Forfeiture" (fine).

Where do you live, and where is the court that you were cited into?

Anonymous · Answer

You only go to court if you wanna contest the ticket, dont even bother your gonna lose. Pay the fine then go to driving school. (U just basically sit their everyone introduces themselves the teacher then shows u a video and u sit their all day pretty effing easy.

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