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re: Help. Going 80 MPH. Cop clocked me at 98. Any advice?

Posted on 8/3/25 at 12:43 am to
Posted by TutHillTiger
Mississippi Alabama
Member since Sep 2010
49636 posts
Posted on 8/3/25 at 12:43 am to
Did you ask to see the radar gun? I did once and it didn't go over well, but then I got out of the ticket and the black racist cop was fired a year later
Posted by speedybaw
Member since Apr 2025
358 posts
Posted on 8/3/25 at 3:54 am to
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80 is still speeding so you would be admitting to speeding. What am I missing?

5 mph over vs 23 mph over. Big difference bub.
Posted by TT9
Global warming
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Posted on 8/3/25 at 5:38 am to
Posted by Tridentds
Sugar Land
Member since Aug 2011
23247 posts
Posted on 8/3/25 at 7:59 am to
You have zero shot in a court. Admit you were going only 56 and you admit you were speeding. You will be guilty of the ticket.

Best route is to get something done, reduced, dropped, etc…before actual court.
Posted by Artificial Ignorance
Member since Feb 2025
1424 posts
Posted on 8/3/25 at 8:02 am to
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Help. Going 80 MPH. Cop clocked me at 98. Any advice?


Quit lying to yourself is my advice.

If you do it, expect others to do it to you.

Your ceiling in life will be low.
Posted by stout
Porte du Lafitte
Member since Sep 2006
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Posted on 8/3/25 at 8:22 am to
How much were you saving at 98 MPH?
Posted by nicholastiger
Member since Jan 2004
53433 posts
Posted on 8/3/25 at 8:51 am to
He nailed your arse
It happens when others in front of you get lucky
Cop must have been finishing his donut and missed the real speeders
Posted by Doctor Strangelove
Member since Feb 2018
3302 posts
Posted on 8/3/25 at 9:04 am to
Years ago I fought a ticket in traffic court and won. Highway patrol had me going 82 in a 55 mph zone and I was just over 60 with several cars blowing by me. I think he clocked one of them. I questioned the patrolman in court and asked him if he was sure he clocked me and not the other two cars and he couldn’t say for sure. The judge let me off.

I felt like Vinny LaGuardia Gambini.
Posted by LSUAlum2001
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Member since Aug 2003
47991 posts
Posted on 8/3/25 at 9:36 am to
Pretty much happened to me.

My Life360 said my top speed was 78 and the cop said he clocked me at 90.

It was pretty congested and everyone was basically the same speed. He probably clocked someone else going eastbound on I-10, not westbound.

Did not get a ticket.
Posted by Gris Gris
OTIS!NO RULES FOR SAUCES ON STEAK!!
Member since Feb 2008
49636 posts
Posted on 8/3/25 at 10:36 am to
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For context I was going 80 in a 75 zone


Why? How much time were you going to save?

I'm always curious about folks who set cruise control above the speed limit and then get upset when they get a ticket.
Posted by MMauler
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Member since Jun 2013
23817 posts
Posted on 8/3/25 at 10:40 am to
Get a dash cam that records your speed so that the next time this happens you can go to court and make the cop look like the lying a-hole that he is. You can also go to the DA to try to press charges against the cop for lying on a government form. Good luck with that though.

Until then, suck it up buttercup.
Posted by aTmTexas Dillo
East Texas Lake
Member since Sep 2018
22093 posts
Posted on 8/3/25 at 10:48 am to
Get an attorney who can convince the judge that larger faster vehicles were moving round you and the radar picked them up instead of you.

You driving on 130 in Texas? That's the only highway with an 80 mph speed limit I'm aware of.
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