Got a hefty speeding fine last night!!

[Old Guy with 87 GT]

82gt .......i would have to say in most cases that peaple fight speeding tickits ,they lose and wind up going through more trouble then it's worth
sounds like the cop has a pretty solid case .....radar has been proven to be pretty acurate .............your only defence would be if the radar wasn't calibrated recently

most likely if you fought this , it would wind up coming down to your word agianst his ........so even if you were going slower ,most likely the judge would side with the cop

mustangII460 .......the occation i mentioned was a rare instance ,
.........out of the five times i've been clocked in the ol 87 ,4 times my speedo was right on the money ......the instance i was talking about ,i was clocked by vascar timing and what my speedo said was 8-9 mph slower then what the cop said i was doing (witch was 1 mph into the next fine range - 51 in a 35)was a smalle township cop and he didn't seem to be mad at me ,he was actually pretty friendly ,.......i pretty much sumed it up as his reaction time might have been a little slow and that was just the speed he dicided to put on the paperwork..........didn't think he did it milicoisly or out of spite ,i figured he wasn't big on fast cars and just wasn't going to cut me any breaks

i was going to fight it and go for the same claim as mentioned above .....argue that i was speeding but not going as fast ......but well when i thought about it a day in court woulda meant a day of missed work witch woulda cost even more money then just paying for the fine ......

out of my experience ,being honest and admitting it when your guilty seems to get you alot more breakes then giving excuses ....most cops have heard em all anyway .........last time i got stopped was in delaware ,state cop pulled me over and asked why i was going 81 mph ........i told him " cause i couldn't get the car in front of me to go any faster " ........ he grined and wound up only putting me down for doing 75