Ok, fair enough, what should be my actions then? Ask for a first attendance and see if they drop a demerit or 2 and a decrease in the fine? Is it worth $400 to hire a traffic ticket specialist for this? Thanks That's really hard to say. It depends how much of an impact the conviction would actually have on you. Certain serious charges like careless, no insurance, have such severe complications that legal representation is always a good idea. Your charge is relatively minor, depending on your actual insurance policy you might not face any increase on a first conviction. There is a very good ch...

Ok, fair enough, what should be my actions then? Ask for a first attendance and see if they drop a demerit or 2 and a decrease in the fine? Is it worth $400 to hire a traffic ticket specialist for this? Thanks

Squishy wrote:Are you trying to argue that the first two cars were speeding as well and should have been stopped first, therefore you would have slipped through the net? That won't fly at all.

Essentially yes, I figure if the 2 cars a head of me were speeding as well I thought they should have been pulled over as well. I was gonna ask for a first attendance and that was hopefully gonna be my bread and butter argument, but if you say that won't fly I may have to look into a traffic ticket specialist.

Thanks for the replies.

Hello everyone, I recently got caught speeding 68 in a 40. I was looking for some advice on what to do with this ticket. The officer was standing outside in an empty lot that is for sale and was using hand held radar gun to catch me. Those things have some distance because he caught my speed about 50 meters out, maybe even more. When he pulled me over he showed me I was going 68 and when I made the right turn on to the road where he was there was 2 other cars a head of me, now he said the other cars were going 58 but I was never able to catch up to these cars before I got pulled over. The Onta...