DAMMIT! BS Red light ticket!! :c

[KLAB]

I just got a ticket for running a red light. It was a light near my gf's house that chages VERY fast. It was green and just as I got to it it turned yellow then prob as I went thru turned red. So next thing I see is a cruiser behind me and the lady gets out and says what did you just not feel like stopping for the red light or what? Didn't give me a chance to talk just wrote down my info and said youll be getting a ticket in the mail. So thats like a $100 ticket PLUS the fuckin insurance surcharge. FUCKK. I have a clean driving record, no speeding tickets, no nuthin... I have points on my insurance from when I crashed my camaro in 2008 so now its gonna be even more... My friend told me to fight it but I doubt it would be effective... Nobody would believe me over the cop. FML more $$$$ down the drain that working at a carwash fails to support...

[Formula413]

Fight it fight it fight it.

You have nothing to lose. If you don't get it tossed at the magistrate hearing, appeal it and go before a judge, and the cop HAS to show up or you win automatically.

[KLAB]

Yeah he said something like fight it the cop most likely wont show up. But I have a feeling this woman will... Seems like the type that just wants to see a 20yr old kid GO DOWNNN in fire. Nice fuckin DESTRUCTION or my clean record >.< But I guess I'll fight it, but what about if you lose do they charge you for the court thing like wasting their time or no?

Originally Posted by Formula413

Fight it fight it fight it.

You have nothing to lose. If you don't get it tossed at the magistrate hearing, appeal it and go before a judge, and the cop HAS to show up or you win automatically.

More info? I've never gotten a ticket so idk what to do lol. What about it getting tossed at a hearing? How does the process usually go?

[Formula413]

Check off on the back of the ticket "request a hearing" and send it in. The first hearing will be before a magistrate, and a cop (doesn't have to be the cop) from that town will show up and read whatever the officer wrote down. You can make your case (try saying that it just turned yellow or whatever you can think of) and be sure to point out your clean driving record. You probably won't win but they might offer to reduce it. But the key thing like you said is the points on your insurance. So if you don't beat it there you can appeal it and go before a judge, and the cop that pulled you over has to show up for that or you win by default. I think you do get charged like $20 or something if you appeal and lose, but think about how much this could cost you on your insurance.

[KLAB]

True. So didn't write anything down she just read off my info to someone on the radio thing and someone else must have wrote it up. She said she got a call so "youll get it in the mail."

[Formula413]

That might help because she probably didn't get into too much detail about what you did. You could say it was snowing and you thought your brakes would lock up, or the sun was in your eye, or whatever. What did you actually say to the cop if anything? Because anything you say is admissable in court.

[KLAB]

I didn't say anything, I said it was red??? and she said yeah, and thats about all i said aside from okay heres my license and reg. The sun actually was in my eyes. I have a feeling she was following me and looking for something to pull me over for because she asked if this was my car.. ????

[DAWG]

fight it and take a video of the lights speed.
videos dont lie!

[My84Z]

If she pulled u over why is it in the mail?

[KLAB]

Read my other posts she "got a call" so she just read my info off to someone via walkie talkie and said youll get a ticket in the mail.