speeding ticket insane price??

[silvia R]

ok the other day my mother got pulled over by a cop and they gave her a speeding ticket for going 15 mph over the limit. and today she got the bill in the mail and it was $850 dollers!!!! now in my opinion this is an insane price for a speed ticket. but i never got a ticket myself so i cant compare it to anything. is this accurate or is this just way overboard? i live in california can anyone quote me the price you payed for a speeding ticket. just soo i can compare? any info would be great. thanks, later nico.

[MinisterofDOOM]

Well lets see...

Only ticket I ever had was for 55 in a 45. Cost me $75. So yeah. That's outrageous. Sure you didn't miss a decimal sign in there somewhere? $85 would not sound bad for a 15 over ticket.

[SeVa-S13]

That is indeed ridiculous but I've never lived in the foreign country that is CA so who knows...

[DAEDALUS]

Was it a construction zone or something? Never got a ticket but damn that sounds rediculous to me too. Who pulled her over? CHP, Sheriff, City Police, etc?

Seva! How's Hawaii?

[SeVa-S13]

Wonderful really, pants and jackets are obsolete here and cops have to have bright blue running lights on at all times so they're easily visible. It's good times really.

[silvia R]

ok it also says they charged for no proof of insurence ( sorry cant spell lol) but we do we got AAA. so is that really fair? just cause we dont have the papers to prove it but the cop see's it on his monitor in his car. he even checked and ran her plates and sayed that everthings fine. and we dont need the papers cause he see the proof on his monitor. soo if the cop run's her plates and see's the proof, he can still bill us for not having the papers?

sorry everone if this is a little confusing, it's 2 in the morning where i live and im pretty tired lol.

[DAEDALUS]

cops have to have bright blue running lights on at all times so they're easily visible.

Whoa, really? That's how it was when I was growing up, but when I came back from college (and every time I've visited) I've seen a lot of cops with the lights out, so I figured they changed the policies or something. What neighborhood/town are you in?

[DAEDALUS]

ok it also says they charged for no proof of insurence ( sorry cant spell lol) but we do we got AAA. so is that really fair? just cause we dont have the papers to prove it but the cop see's it on his monitor in his car. he even checked and ran her plates and sayed that everthings fine. and we dont need the papers cause he see the proof on his monitor. soo if the cop run's her plates and see's the proof, he can still bill us for not having the papers?

sorry everone if this is a little confusing, it's 2 in the morning where i live and im pretty tired lol.

No, there's no way for them to check for insurance as far as I know, just registration. But last I checked the insurance ticket can be dropped by going to court and proving you were covered at the time you were pulled over. It's a fixit ticket and they'll charge you something small, maybe $10 or something like that, and drop the other fee. Surely there's a date on the ticket that gives you the option of going to court?

[silvia R]

ok well i will let her know about showing proof at court. she is gonna fight the insureance thing not the speeding thing. ok thanks everone for all your help.

[MinisterofDOOM]

I had that happen when I got hit one time (had the wrong card with me). But I showed it when I paid the ticket, and they reduced it. I don't think it was THAT high...or anywhere near it though...even before I showed my insurance.

[SeVa-S13]

I'm in Hawaii Kai and most of the "cop cars" I see are just personal vehicles with the little blue light up top. I've never had a problem spotting 'em in the day, but at night it could've got dangerous. I know what the Crown Vics/Caprice/Impala lights look like, but without a standard squad car per se, it'd be hard to tell without those little lights they have on at night. (Sorry, I kinda left the night part out in the other post)

[MinisterofDOOM]

Hmmm....that's pretty damn convenient.

[metalsyth]

they'll charge you something small, maybe $10 or something like that, and drop the other fee.

I know in Georgia that having no proof of insurance is a $400 dollar ticket but it can taken care of in court with proof of insurance over the time of ticket.

Also speeding tickets of 11 mph over can be from $115 to $250 dollars and this is without the being in a construction zone or a school zone.

[180crafter]

ok it also says they charged for no proof of insurence ( sorry cant spell lol) but we do we got AAA.

Last time I checked... AAA was not insurance.

[Jesda]

AAA is a full-service auto insurer now.

[Jesda]

...but the question is, do you have AAA insurance or just AAA roadside service?

[180crafter]

exactly My point... and thanks for clearing up the insurance question.

[gabossie]

I've gotten two tickets for 15 over and they were both a little over $300 in norcal. That, coupled with the no proof of insurance, and that ticket isn't so suprising. Get the insurance thing taken care of and tell her to go to traffic school for the ticket.

[LaughingBull]

They have a cool thing here in kansas not sure if anyone else does it, but you can double the price of a ticket and they reduce it to a non moving violation. Only once a year though.

[nsrZ32]

damn....another reason not to move to cali. Would be like 100 or less here.

[NSR_s30]

Thats crazy.

[KDashy]

I got a speeding ticket in a school zone, for going 35 in a 25, it was only 55 bucks.

And this is in so cal.

[Anand]

it's not that bad in So Cal...

$800+ is ridiculous for a speeding ticket. If you have insurance... go to court, show them the papers, get it cleared.. and pay $10 for that part.. I dont'; know what they will charge her for the speeding part...

[gniknave]

Make sure that when your Mom goes to court, the 1) shows proof of insurance and 2) See's the judge. The judge will almost ALWAYS reduce the fine vs. just going to the window and paying the fine. I got pulled over for speeding in a school zone and my fine was $280 reduced to $90, and I had no proof of insurance.

[hansQ45]

I just got a speeding ticket in the Q45 in Maryland.... 81 mph in a 65 mph zone on I-70... It costs $75.00. I'm trying to do community service and have the ticket thrown out and pay some type of reduced fine.

I don't want the points and potentially get hammered by my insurance company.

It's extremely difficult for me to keep the Q45 at 55 mph or 65 mph on the highway. The car seems to naturally want to run at about 80 mph on the open four-lane highway.

[andrave]

I've received two tickets in WV, both for 11mph over the limit. One was a town cop in a 35 mph zone, the ticket was around $130, and the other was 66 in a 55 and it was a state police officer in an unmarked car, and it was like $150 I think. But they raised all the court costs so now they are closer to $200 I believe. And construction zones double the fine, but only the fine. in a $200 dollar ticket the fine is usually less than half of that, most of it is administrative ****. I know the fine on my $130 dollar town ticket was only 30 dollars, the rest were other fees (court costs, etc).

[gniknave]

It's extremely difficult for me to keep the Q45 at 55 mph or 65 mph on the highway. The car seems to naturally want to run at about 80 mph on the open four-lane highway.

I hear that! I force myself to use cruise control out here. Funny thing is that in this area the stupid Highway Patrol reports to media outlets where they'll be patrolling. Then the news stations report it. So I'm always prepared

[andrave]

ps buy a radar detector. saved my *** a thousand times. even a cheap $50 one is worth it if it keeps you from getting a $100 ticket.

[MinisterofDOOM]

I don't want the points and potentially get hammered by my insurance company.

I just sat through a class. Not bad, really, and the ticket and points are no longer on my record. No icrease in insurance cost, and at the time I was delivering pizza so I got to keep my job. Lots of good reasons to sit and endure a lecture. I can't remember what the class cost me.

[Florida240sx]

Last ticket was in March. Got in Chesterfield, Virginia. 82 in a 60. Paid it Nov. 4th cost me $187. I was suppose to go to court but being I'm 900miles away I got out of it. Would fo cost me more $$$ to drive there than the ticket. Was a wreckless speed ticket.