Driving ticket - incorrect paperwork

Gloomendoom

KierNet wrote: »

I don't understand why people try and get out of tickets,

Because they usually cost money. Sometimes lots of money.

This is the MSE forum, after all.

KierNet

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Because they usually cost money. Sometimes lots of money.

This is the MSE forum, after all.

Surely the simple answer is don't speed/don't jump red lights, or don't get caught...

fivetide

KierNet wrote: »

Surely the simple answer is don't speed/don't jump read lights, or don't get caught...

spot on. No one 'misjudges a braking distance' for traffic lights. The OP is just finding a different way to say "wasn't paying attention and/or floored so I could save 30 seconds of my uber precious time"

The thing to remember is traffic lights do not "suddenly" change. If they are green then the next change is only going to be to red. Anyone driving properly covers the brake and gets ready to stop not bury the foot and try to scoot through.

5t.

mustrum_ridcully

This is why we need more unmarked police cars. I doubt very much OP would have made their judgement error if a marked police car was behind them.

shaun_from_Africa

fivetide wrote: »

The thing to remember is traffic lights do not "suddenly" change. If they are green then the next change is only going to be to red.
5t.

What happened to amber?

TonyMMM

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

What you could do is claim that you weren't in that street at that time as you were in ***** street, and cite the police officer who gave you the ticket as a witness.

And the officer wil say "yes I made a mistake on the ticket, the actual location was ...... " and the case will continue.


A mistake on anFPN or NIP is only sometimes relevant if you are misled by it, from the Op post it appears they were stopped at the time, so can hardly claim to have been misled as to the location of the offence.

Tinks74

fivetide wrote: »

spot on. No one 'misjudges a braking distance' for traffic lights. The OP is just finding a different way to say "wasn't paying attention and/or floored so I could save 30 seconds of my uber precious time"

The thing to remember is traffic lights do not "suddenly" change. If they are green then the next change is only going to be to red. Anyone driving properly covers the brake and gets ready to stop not bury the foot and try to scoot through.

5t.

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

What happened to amber?

Quite right Shaun.

I was once stopped at 2am on the way home from work after having passed through a very open junction (i.e. I could clearly see the approaches to all other junctions and the fact they were empty) on an amber light.

The Police officer did the usual "Do you know why I've stopped you?" routine, I answered that "I went through the lights on Amber", at which point I could see the Police officers face change and he let me go. I maintain that if I'd answered "No, i don't know why you've stopped me", that he would have said I'd gone through on red and issued me with a ticket.

However to the OP, you don't appear to deny going through a red light, you were caught by a Police officer at the time, you were wrong, don't try to wriggle out of it on a technicality. Just consider it a lesson learned.

iolanthe07

My understanding is that minor inaccuracies on a ticket do not invalidate it. It will be corrected in court.

Farzackerly

If they feel bloody-minded enough they can just cancel the ticket and re-issue one with the correct details. That makes the defendant very popular with the mags, not

birkee

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

What you could do is claim that you weren't in that street at that time as you were in ***** street, and cite the police officer who gave you the ticket as a witness.

Love it! :rotfl:

A copper bottomed alibi!