Speeding Ticket

Speeding Ticket

We can help fight your speeding ticket. Never just pay a speeding ticket as this will be deemed an admission of guilt and will put conviction on your record and points on your driver’s license. Convictions with the points that come with them can give your insurance company the open door to raise your insurance rates for the indefinite future. Speeding tickets usually carry the largest fines of all tickets. They also tend to be the most likely ticket to be dismissed by the judge if the proper arguments are made by your Fort Lauderdale speeding ticket defense attorney handling your case. The reason for this is that the police officer must use a speed measuring device to monitor and prove your speed. Speed measurement devices can include a pace clock (the speedometer of the police officer’s car), radar gun or laser gun. Sometimes the use of a stop watch and observations of vehicle travel through distance markings on the highway can be offered to assess speed. The law requires that all of these speed measuring devices be accurately calibrated before they can be used. If the device is not calibrated and maintained properly its use may be disallowed by the judge hearing your case. It is best to have an experienced traffic attorney who is familiar with all of these devices and the rules and regulations that must be followed for them to be used accurately. The attorney will point out to the judge any errors or omissions that were made by the police officer in the process. With close scrutiny and subsequent argument to the judge, a speeding ticket is much more likely to be dismissed. The rules and regulations that govern these devices sometimes change. It is almost impossible for a lay person trying to represent himself to be aware of the applicable rules themselves, never mind these changes when they occur periodically.