How can I avoid paying a speeding fine and not getting three points on my licence?
Please no sarcastic remarks like slow down, I have read them all. Just give me pure straight advice to try and get away with it.
There is a lot of assuming going on with many answers. Many states you can’t "take a class".
If you were pulled over via camera, you could easily go with the excuse that you have your car up for sale and the "test driver" must have gone too fast. You’d have to go to court to argue your case.
I would guess that you got pulled over. Three points probably means you were speeding over 10, maybe over 20. This is what you can do: Go to court on the day of your arraignment (that is the first time you appear). The DA’s will bring everyone forward one by one and try to avoid a court case by making many plea agreements. If you can afford to bump your ticket down to a lesser-point offense, you could easily say to the individual, "I was speeding, but not by 20 miles an hour. It was 10 according to my spedometer. I had cruise control set." Many times they will drop the charge down a bit just to avoid the added time they usually don’t have to see all these cases and burden the police officer with having to appear (taking him off the streets doing his job and putting him in court and still paying him).
If the fine is due by April 30th, you can go in there and say you’ve lost your job and are looking for one and don’t have any income or some other thing stating "I can’t pay this whole fine at this time" and they will spread out the payments. You can even appear before they are due to request more time… as long as you pay a few bucks here and there, they usually grant the time.
The worse thing about getting a ticket is getting screwed by your insurance company as, usually, you were speeding. Paying a speeding fine sucks, but paying an insurance company more for your mistake is complete BS. There is no context only the thought that "speed kills’ while driving too close is widely ignored and definitely causes many serious accidents.
If you were going 10 MPH over, you could purchase a used speedometer from eBay (if reasonable) or simply a cheap spedometer cable and bring the receipt to court and say your spedometer was broken. Usually you’ll wind up paying the fine, but the charge will be changed from "speeding" to "equipment inoperative". Same cost, no points, no insurance screw-over. I think most court houses don’t care as the insurance company typically doesn’t lobby every local government in the area…only state & federal levels!
Good luck. I’ve learned to ALWAYS go to that first appearance because they’ll often allow you to plead down. Sometimes they will even remove a charge if you say "I’m guilty of speeding, but not the turn signal violation." And you can even bring in proof of insurance that is faked in many states and they’ll fall for that. Luckily, I live in a state where proof of insurance isn’t needed and, oddly enough, insurance rates are cheaper.
take the class
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I know someone who told the authorities that her vehicle was up for sale in the local paper and at the time of offence it was being taken for a test drive. She, of course, had no record of the persons name or address as it was just a random person that had answered a newspaper ad. She told me that they accepted this defence and waived the penalty.
I am assuming that you were caught by an automatic speed camera.
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My mate Stephanie.
to be honest,you cant get away with it.If you’ve been speeding,you should be penalized for it.You must’ve been going very fast to be getting points on your license or it would’ve just been a fine.Be a lot more carefull in future,speed restrictions are there for a reason.
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get someone else to take the blame, they could take the points for you and you would not risk losing your licence by being points barred.
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I really don’t advise not paying this… First of all, a cop pulled you over, correct? And they wrote down your name and license and info and all that, right? So chances are they’ll know if you don’t pay it, and you could get into trouble.
But, if you really wanted to try, I’d go with what Spyderfly said, in the case that a cop didn’t pull you over or whatever (which doesn’t make sense to me because I don’t see any other way you could get a speeding ticket): say you’re going to sell your car and someone was taking it for a test drive.
Again, I don’t advise that you avoid paying it. It could end up costing you more.
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No lectures. There are some (very expensive) lawyers who make a business out of this sort of thing. Did you ever hear of Mr Loophole? To be honest, it’s more trouble than it’s worth, not worth fighting unless it’s absolutely vital to you to keep the points off your licence. And the courts have heard most of the excuses by now.
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the only way i think you can get away with this is – so i have heard.
state that you were not the driver – and that a relative from other sea’s had taken your car without your knowledge and it was them that was speeding, and that they have now returned home – the further away the better)
the authorities will write back asking for some proof of this and idally copies of flight tickets – all you need then is a letter sent from overseas acknowleding responsibility – nobody keep old travel tickets for long if at all
enclose the envelope when you forward it to the police as this will be marked with the counrty of origin – ensure the letter is also general Hi. you just have to make it sound convincing.
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My brother said he’d picked up a hitchhiker and they were sharing the driving…he couldn’t possibly say who was drivng the car at time he went thru speed camera so neither were prepared to take fine/points…it was waived…imaginary hitcher!!
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find someone with a licence who hasnt got a car or isnt driving right now, chuck them a few quid to take the points for you.
although this is illegal so i wouldnt advise it but thats a way ive heard of in the past.
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hire an attorney to reduce it to improper equipment points will be on license but not insurace to get points off of license you have to take a dmv approved driving class
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there isnt any way here in florida.i know after a 135mph ticket
in a 45 mph zone,huge fine trip to jail,and 3 points.
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Why should you get away with it? You sped you pay , same for us all.
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There is a lot of assuming going on with many answers. Many states you can’t "take a class".
If you were pulled over via camera, you could easily go with the excuse that you have your car up for sale and the "test driver" must have gone too fast. You’d have to go to court to argue your case.
I would guess that you got pulled over. Three points probably means you were speeding over 10, maybe over 20. This is what you can do: Go to court on the day of your arraignment (that is the first time you appear). The DA’s will bring everyone forward one by one and try to avoid a court case by making many plea agreements. If you can afford to bump your ticket down to a lesser-point offense, you could easily say to the individual, "I was speeding, but not by 20 miles an hour. It was 10 according to my spedometer. I had cruise control set." Many times they will drop the charge down a bit just to avoid the added time they usually don’t have to see all these cases and burden the police officer with having to appear (taking him off the streets doing his job and putting him in court and still paying him).
If the fine is due by April 30th, you can go in there and say you’ve lost your job and are looking for one and don’t have any income or some other thing stating "I can’t pay this whole fine at this time" and they will spread out the payments. You can even appear before they are due to request more time… as long as you pay a few bucks here and there, they usually grant the time.
The worse thing about getting a ticket is getting screwed by your insurance company as, usually, you were speeding. Paying a speeding fine sucks, but paying an insurance company more for your mistake is complete BS. There is no context only the thought that "speed kills’ while driving too close is widely ignored and definitely causes many serious accidents.
If you were going 10 MPH over, you could purchase a used speedometer from eBay (if reasonable) or simply a cheap spedometer cable and bring the receipt to court and say your spedometer was broken. Usually you’ll wind up paying the fine, but the charge will be changed from "speeding" to "equipment inoperative". Same cost, no points, no insurance screw-over. I think most court houses don’t care as the insurance company typically doesn’t lobby every local government in the area…only state & federal levels!
Good luck. I’ve learned to ALWAYS go to that first appearance because they’ll often allow you to plead down. Sometimes they will even remove a charge if you say "I’m guilty of speeding, but not the turn signal violation." And you can even bring in proof of insurance that is faked in many states and they’ll fall for that. Luckily, I live in a state where proof of insurance isn’t needed and, oddly enough, insurance rates are cheaper.
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