Little off topic and old, but in some countries speeding tickets are proportional to your income so this guy got a $103,000 ticket for doing 47 when the limit was 31. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1759791.stm

To the OP, sorry about that fine, I think you will either pay the county or an attorney about the same.
But on a lighter note, the scenario in this picture did happen to me about 3 weeks back. I was first in line at an intersection with an officer from a different town & county on my left. Her lane was straight or turn left, my lane straight only. However within 250' after the light, my lane merges left. Knowing how the lights function at the time of the morning, I was able to get the hole shot and come out ahead of her Ford Escape w/ the pursuit package. The tires on my slightly modded turbo hooked up perfectly and I was a good car length ahead of her when I signaled and moved left. She did flash turn her lights on to show her superiority to me, but not having violated any traffic laws she was forced to stay behind me for several miles where I only exceeded the speed limits by 10% or less. I immediately thought of this picture when it happened and finally found a topic to share my story.
I hope this cheers you up slightly.

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Something seems off.
A couple years ago I recieved a speeding ticket for 98 in a 55 and I believe the fine was around 480$. Maybe NY isn’t as strict?

Note to self- don’t speed in Georgia.

IMHO, pay the fine and move on with your life. Chalk it up as a pricey learning experience.

Georgia State Troopers are a Unique group.....They are in a polite word, "Tough"
The state Traffic violations, and court follow ups, are among the worst!
(Way too many stories from Florida as We have to go through Georgia)

I hope whatever direction you go, my friend, it isnt too hard or painful....

Here in Pittsburgh, its an epidemic. 9 (10) times out of 10 its someone from Ohio...

In IL, >30 over is a class b misdemeanor and >40 over is a class a, so you'd be an idiot not to get a lawyer involved. Make sure you don't get tagged with something like that.

Personally I'd do it anyway just because that insurance hit isn't going to be fun either, assuming reciprocity between, I assume, GA and FL. If there isn't, and no misdemeanor, then I suppose I'd pay.

Keep right except to pass, surely you've heard / read this on a road sign somewhere in your life! I drive through Ohio all the time and they are some of the worst left lane bandits in the world, it makes people pass on the right which just makes the roads less safe.

Many, many moons ago, my wife and I are driving separate cars coming back from Charlotte, NC. We are on I-77 She is ahead of me and comes up on a State Trooper. He is doing about 50 in a 55. She pulls into the left lane to pass...he speeds up to about 60 at which point, she falls back behind him. He slows back down to 50, she tries again, he speeds up again. Tries a third time, same thing happens. So my wife pulls into the left lane but doesn't speed up, just cruises there for a bit, so trooper backs down to 50 at which point she guns it and whips past the trooper. Lights her up and pulls her over for doing 60. Really a crappy thing to do.

Was it this guy?

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The fine you received is fairly high but not unique to GA.

Penalty for reckless driving in Illinois. In this state, traveling 30 mph or more over the speed limit is automatically considered reckless driving. First-time violators may: Be fined up to $2500

If you want to potentially try for a lesser offense in court then you should hire a local lawyer there who nows all of the judges and is in traffic court every day. You ARE going to spend more than what they are telling you to pay but if that's important to you and you want to try and ensure that your insurance rates don't go bananas then that's what you need to do. Getting the right lawyer who is on a first name basis with the officers and the judge is absolutely ESSENTIAL to having success. Again, this is going to cost you likely double of just paying the fine but it can pay off over the long run.

In my personal opinion, they are doing you a HUGE favor by offering you what they are offering you. I am super surprised that they aren't making you appear in court.

I would take this deal in a nanosecond if it was me.

Pay the ticket and purchase a car with much more mid range torque.

I live in Atlanta and I was traveling to Indiana. Just before I left the state. I received a ticket for 88(?) in a 70 zone. I don’t remember if it was a construction zone but it was a super speeder ticket.

I went to court in this rural part of the state for my arraignment. I did a little research on the type of equipment the officer used and asked some questions of the judge and prosecutor. I asked if instead of me coming back to court and eating their time as well as the officers time they could reduce the ticket to 14 miles over the speed limit which would still result in a fine but no ticket against my license and no increase in insurance.

The judge said that if I paid the full amount of$380 that day that he would void the ticket and wouldn’t be reported Tony insurance. I happily agreed.

I've got a buddy who is an attorney and he gave me some pretty good advice once.

He basically told me to show up to court and ask if the cop who busted me was actually licensed and approved to use the mechanism in which he caught me. I think he was using a laser gun or something like that. Or it might have been old school with a scope, I honestly don't remember.

Anyhow, long story short the guy wasn't approved to use it so they threw the ticket out.

In your case it sounds like they're some hardcore mofos in GA. I'm willing to bet those cops are approved for catching speeders any means necessary.

Good Luck!

Well, it was a lawyer from Brooklyn

You must be a blast at parties...

You sure Steve Ritchie wasn't driving your car??

Quite a coincidence but as I'm reading this thread Sammy Hagar's "I Can't Drive 55" just came on XM Ossy's Boneyard.

Unfortunately unless you have a friend in law you are probably best off just paying the fine. I can understand the situation you were in and you seem like a pretty reasonable person but you did get clocked going 100 and 30mph over the speed limit. A good lawyer has decent chance of getting your off completely but it will cost you more then the ticket. So you need to decide if it has additional benefits for it not to be on your record and if lawyer fees and court dates are worth it. The first thing a good lawyer is going to do is request the calibration records for the radar the cop was using. Police departments are historically terrible about recalibrating and certifying them on time and if it's not certified they have to throw out your result. Lots of other little tricks a good lawyer will know that can help you get a reduction or the ticket thrown out.

I would dig into it a little deeper. Judges still sentence people to road gangs there ? 20 over usually judges like to see you.

You admit you were speeding. Send money. Be done with it. No sense making it a lot worse. Or be made an example of.

LTG : )

I don't really think you have much of a choice here. If you don't pay the fine and tell them to pound sand they will simply chuckle at you and issue a bench warrant. If you don't live in that state that may not bother you too badly...at first...until you want to refinance your home or start a new job that runs a background check and finds it (and then thinks you are fugitive from justice because there isn't much information on the background report).

That's what I was asking about having a "good" lawyer. If we all know about the calibration thing, I would assume every lawyer in the world has heard of it....
I just don't see what could be so involved with a speeding ticket that there's even a slight difference in lawyers.?

God Bless Texas.

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Totally right...none of the "good" lawyers make a living in the speeding ticket world regardless (seriously...not a single one). If you are any good there is far more high paying work out there for you as an attorney than arguing about speeding tickets and trying to get someone who doesn't want to pay a $500 ticket to pay you $500 for your time crossing a law enforcement officer on the stand about his calibrations...

A "good" lawyer, in the context of resolving this particular speeding ticket, would be someone who would have a good rapport with the prosecutor or law enforcement agency who issued the ticket...

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So not so much with knowing/arguing the law and more to do with who you know? huh.

You're saying you walked into court and said I don't think the cop is certified to use the speed device and the judge was like "shucks you caught us, you're free to go"?

not sure in Georgia, but in mo. they can take you to jail anything 100 mph and up, no questions asked.

so 2 road ragers are better than 1 ?????

Don't do that high of speeding in NH .... you'll be arrested on the spot and make the morning news with your mug shot (I see it quite a bit)

Too bad you were not driving through Hazzard County Georgia. You could have just jumped a dirt ramp over the police car and gotten away.

With regards to speeding tickets...sure.

If you go to a city court / traffic court, you simply do not see legal arguments being made (not with any frequency anyway). There will be no lawyer sitting around in a $2,000 suit waiting to make legal arguments for his client about the law over moving violations. That said, if you look at the docket from earlier in the morning on who all was supposed to be heard that day, you'll note many people are simply never called during the day, in any way...they weren't refixed, they weren't deemed a no show, they just vanished off the docket (if they made it there to begin with...).

And let's say you do get an out of town big city lawyer super star (unknown in the court you are being tried in) who comes in and razzle dazzles everyone with his legal knowledge and questioning abilities...at the end of his magic show you may just get a judge who wasn't paying attention anyway who would just say "guilty, and the fine is $____; next"...then what would you do? Appeal? Over a traffic fine? The judge wouldn't care if you do, its not like your appeal hurts his record.

I usually go with Lupe's escape.

There are good lawyers and then there are good lawyers that are the right one for a specific case. Relationships play a huge role into minor offenses like this. A decent law firm will use an intern or new hire for a case like this for all the work. If you are an important enough client they send the higher up with the right connections with the intern at the day of court. There's really no arguing the law if you are truly clocked at 30mph over the limit and the police offer is following proper protocol on everything. Most people that hire a lawyer in these types of cases are to keep it off their records or at least greatly reduced for reasons other then insurance.

Slow the hell down. Don't want a ticket? Don't speed. Don't want a $1100 ticket? Slow down and crawl along, say, at 89. Who drives over 100 and comes to a pinball group to whine when he gets a $1100 ticket?

Sorry, this is crazy, and I'm not talking about the $1100 ticket.

I think anywhere toasterdog drives, he's the hazard....

Agree with most others, the best option is find the "speeding tickets" lawyer in the county to deal with it for you... Here is a good story about a similar issue from a Georgia guy on Vinwiki, a great youtube car channel.

If you go on the High Speed page and look up "Where to play," there are none listed in Georgia.

Just discovering the Valentine, I've been looking for a reliable one for a while, reliable as in that rings at the right time but doesn't ring all the time for no reasons. It's not cheap, but probably worth it.

How good is it ?

Hopefully that hefty fine will slow you down a bit before they start getting really big.

Back in 1989, in the space of one month, my son totaled his Accord, my wife totaled her Prelude and I received a warning from the state that I was about to lose my licence for points violations which were mostly from speeding tickets.
Our insurance company dropped all three of us (no surprise there) but we could not find an insurance company that would cover us. We had to use a high risk state insurance program for 2 years at approximately 10 grand a year.

I quit speeding and I have not had a ticket since. After a few months you'll get used to driving the speed limit.

They will see what your record was even 7 years ago. It doesn't matter.
It would not go in your favor if you try to fight it. Not at that limit. Passing that moron
especially at that speed, forget it just pay and suck it up. Be happy it wasn't reckless driving.
Don't ever get caught in VA with that detector by the way. Southern hospitality begins in Virginia!
It may be for lovers but not speeders.

pay the fine
here you would have copped a fine and lost your license for 6 months

I once got 7 no-front-tag tickets in one summer.

I'm scared of this since I bought my new car. 100 isn't that fast in the right car. Used to be the speed limit was 55 on I75... Now it's 75 where I live, and everyone drives a touch over 80.

I'd pay the fine. Thanks for the reminder that I need to slow down. I've caught myself north of 90 when passing.

Just a little speeding ...

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Up here in Ontario your car would be impounded, on the spot, for one week, a very hefty fine, and a court appearence to explain why you should be driving again. That much over is called "stunt driving" and you would be very happy with just that fine. Chalk it up to a learning experience...

Too funny!