You are lucky and got off easy.

Here in Ontario you would have watched your car get towed and impounded for 1 week costing you around $1000-1500 which is unrecoverable, lost your license for 1 week, and once you make it to court you would have faced a fine of ranging from $2000-10000.

 

what rags me about speeding tickets is it is just a way for the state or commonwealth to pad their pockets. i routinely drive a road that is posted at 55mph. this is the same road that has had nothing done to it except resurfacing of the pavement for the last 40 years. same two lanes, same curves, same hills and so on. 40 years ago the posted limit was 65 mph. now if you run 65mph you get a ticket. most roads in this country are posted at least 10 mph under what they are safely capable of handling; therefore speeding revenue for the state

 

I would guess this gent has the resources to deal with the ticket

 

I would save the money on a lawyer and just ask the judge for a hardship license for work purposes.

 

Thanks... I was kind of hoping to get some feedback from enforcement.

 

, yup, lawyer up or you are finished!

 

I don't know the laws pertaining to radar detectors in Alberta but I'll say it again that ours in the vette and the wife's Murano have paid for themselves many times over.

 

Well I paid "Tickets, The Traffic Ticket people" to fight the ticket for me and it worked! They use retired police to take the cases and they let me keep my license and got the fine reduced. Wheeeew! I would have been screwed if I lost that baby!

 

Glad it worked out for you.

 

Congrats on your issue. Now watch your speed next time going through there!

 

According to you, the speed limit was 70 km/hr and you were clocked at 127 km/hr! The officer was being nice.

 

Don't understand this comment. The speed limit was about 42 mph and our man was clocked at less that 78 mph. Given how fast a Corvette can accelerate and also de-accelerate these speeds are not unreasonable if the road ahead was clear, no intersections etc. How was the police officer being nice? With a good driving record and an understanding of all the circumstances, doesn't seem like you should be hammered to the extreme. If you could talk to the judge perhaps you could do a good job of explaining there was nothing dangerous. I kinda think a lawyer would be a good idea. How much would it cost? A few hundred dollars would probably be a good investment.

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I used to live in Australia. At that time, I understood that being caught driving above 140 km/hr was a big problem. I think you got a night in jail (goal in Australian spelling). So on remote two lane desert roads, usually straight as a yardstick and with almost no traffic, I always kept my speed a couple of ticks below 140 km/hr. Once I approached a slower moving car, and passed it (in Australian, I overtook it) at about 125 km/hr (having slowed down from my near 140 km/hr/). As I went by, I had a sinking feeling as I saw the police logo on the side of the door. Sure enough, the red, blinking lights came on. The police officer and I had a conversation. Actually, his concern was that with my American accent I didn't understand the latent dangers of high speed driving on the two lane desert roads. Anyhow, an explanation that I had lived in Australia for many years, all that time living in the outback driving on desert roads, etc, he let me go. A real gentleman.

 

Any lawyer that doesn't know the difference between "higher" and "hire" shouldn't be "hired". (Pulp Fiction) English, do you speak it (M/F)!

San

 

We all make typo's like this, I think.

 

at least your out of it. Slow it down from now on.

 

doing 80 in a 45.. is not smart

 

Agreed. Finding a firm with a judge in their pool would play an advantage. Congrats on the resolve.

 

Be glad it wasn't here in Calif...DUI is nothing. Get caught without insurance and you lose your license for up to three years, mandatory one year. The only exception to the driving was if driving was required for your job, but not getting back and forth to work. Happened to me when my insurance company went out of business and I didn't know it, plus was rear-ended at an intersection while I was stopped.

 

I've yet to have one that fast. My wife tends to irritate me and waste my money about three times a year but she's usually just 20 over.

I always Lawyer up. It's never cheap but IMO it has to be done.

 

Yeah well big deal, in France, the last time study was undertaken, 97% of the people driving without insurance didn't have a driver license neither (driver's license is required to get insurance).

So, as a French cop put it: what are you going to suspend as there is nothing to suspend?

a++ Cedric