I was driving down a road and got pulled over for speeding.
The police officer gave me a speeding ticket, but wrote down that i was going 30mph in a 30mph zone by mistake.
What will happen?
It is a hand written ticket, in the UK and i was caught by a speed gun he was holding.
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Eventually, the mistake will be discovered and it will be changed to the correct speed. Then you will pay the ticket.
You need to understand that any ‘traffic ticket’ come under the Traffic Act, therefore any ticket is only a ‘Statute’, a statute is not law as it is not anywhere in the constitution, it is a ‘contract’, and is only enacted as law ‘If you agree’.
Read your constitution, ‘Anything not in this constitution belong to the people’, that’s you.
The speed will be corrected in court.
The ticket is the statement of facts for the Court. Personally, if it was me, I’d challenge the ticket so that when the officer has to come to court and admit his mistake the first question you or the Court could ask is “what other mistakes did you make when it comes to this ticket? Is it possible you made a mistake with the use of the radar/lidar gun as well?” Of course, this will cast the whole thing in doubt and the Court should dismiss the matter.
Challenge it in court.
Ask this question:
If the officer made THIS mistake, isn’t it possible he ALSO made a mistake in ticketing me in the first place?
Generally, most errors can be corrected by the officer in court. However, in this case, that is almost impossible for the officer to do. I would suspect that the only record he has of your speed is what he wrote on the speeding ticket. In court, he would have to guess at how fast you were going. A guess is not going to be accepted by the court as evidence.
Unless he can produce some other documentation of your speed, the citation should be dismissed.
30mph? I thought you folks used the metric system. . .
Laws/rules vary from state to state. But here on the east copast USA, This CAN be taken as a defense. And it can help you get the ticket thrown out of court. Logic/reasoning being that IF the officer made a mistake on the ticket that he could have made a mistake on the speed. No garantee but it could go either way.
Good chance of acquittal. The ticket is a legal document. It cannot be altered and you should ask for the case to be dismissed on the basis of the fact stated on the ticket.
Many of the earlier posters have given you good answers.
Here is my personal experience…Several years ago, when police cars first had computers to print tickets, I got pulled over for going 40 mph in a 30 mph zone on a one-way street. I was guilty!Unfortunately, the officer’s computer was down so he hand-wrote the ticket. He wrote that I was going 30 mph in a 40 mph zone; but he also stated that I was going east. The street was one-way west! (Of course, he did not ticket me for going the wrong way — which I was not.) He just wrote it down wrong.
I figured that when I got to court, it would be thrown out because of the errors in the ticket. Boy was I wrong! When I pointed the speed error out to the judge, the cop testified that I was going
“dangerously slow.” When I pointed out the direction on the street error, the cop testified that I was going “dangerously slow the wrong way on a one-way street!” (Would it have been better had I been going “dangerously fast” the wrong way on a one-way street?) I was found guilty/guilty! I had to appeal the decision and get an attorney to represent me at the next hearing. The cop did not even show up for that one so it was thrown out!
I hope you have better luck than I did when you get to court!
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The ticket will be cancelled. So contact and highlight this to the ticket office immediately. You will then get a letter telling you it is cancelled.
The ticket HAS to be accurate.