Mike T.
Ding! Best answer yet.
My original response was how she should handle her (obvious) guilt: mail in the fine and be done with it; learn the lesson.
If you want to fight, you should have things in writing. You can call the clerk and reschedule, then wait for the new notice to appear in the mail. But if you call close to the appearance date and the clerk's office screws something up and fails to actually reschedule (and you have no notice in the mail), then it's worse for you because now you have a "failure to appear" as well as an outstanding speeding ticket.
Speeding Tickets 2960Scott - Name ONE road that is located in the continental United States, and has a speed limit POSTED at the 85th percentile (within 5MPH). Good luck on that. Most are posted near the...
The last speeding ticket I chose to fight, in Michigan, was dismissed when the officer failed to appear with me in court. But (it was automatic then), the case was dismissed "with prosecutorial option to re-file". So I still had to wait some time to be certain it was a dead issue.
Speeding Tickets 2961Can it be called prejudice or even bias when IT'S USUALLY RIGHT??? Traffic engineers are influenced by politicians, who in turn are influenced by a VERY VOCAL MINORITY, the "speed kills" crowd. If the...
I don't know what points are worth in insurance costs any more, since I don't have any. But I recall that when I did there was a threshold number below which it didn't really matter. Has that changed? It's unlikely that her first ticket (as described, simple speeding) would add enough to matter, if she learns enough to avoid tickets from now on. It's the accumulation that will do her in, if it becomes a habit.
