No one likes being pulled over and getting speeding tickets, but chances are that you will at least once during your car driving days. When this unfortunate event occurs, it is best to be prepared ahead of time. Knowing how to act when you are receiving speeding tickets may make the experience a lot less painful and keep you from being charged more due to inappropriate behavior and comments.
Things to know when you are being pulled over for a speeding ticket:
1.Get to the right shoulder as soon as possible. Never pull to the left shoulder, even when in the left hand lane. This will keep you and the officer from being in the path of oncoming traffic, making the experience safer for you both. (A happier officer is a more generous officer when it comes to getting speeding tickets!) Pull as far over onto the right shoulder as is possible.
2.At night, with unmarked police cars (and even marked ones), continue driving to a lighted area. A gas station or all night convenience store is a good place to travel to, as there are other people around. Officers should not have any problems when you do this, as it keeps everyone involved safer.
3.Keep your hands on the steering wheel in plain sight at all times. When the officer arrives at your window to give you the speeding ticket, this shows the officer clearly he has no reason to be aggressive. In reality, this officer has no idea who you are, and even with something as simple as giving a speeding ticket he or she can be taking a big risk.
4.Keep all your movements while you are interacting with the officer to a minimum. The officer may be able to see you are moving, but he or she has no idea what you are going for. State what you are doing and keep your movements slow at all times.
5.Don't insult the officer's intelligence by calling him or her "sir" or "ma'am" constantly. The officer will not be flattered or impressed, and this can show on the amount charged on your speeding ticket.
6.Don't hurt yourself by volunteering incriminating evidence. Answer questions with a "yes" or "no" and keep answers short and too the point. The only time you should expand on speeding is when there is a medical emergency, and in that situation the officer can actually be of assistance.
7.If your license and registration are in your glove compartment, tell the officer that and ask if you can retrieve them. Once you have taken them out, leave the glove compartment open. If it happens to be in the compartment between the front seats, tell the officer that and ask if you can retrieve them. Once you have taken them out, close the center compartment. With the center compartment, the officer may be concerned there is a weapon inside, so closing it can give the officer a more secure feeling while writing out the speeding ticket.
8.Never argue about your speeding tickets on the side of the road. The officer will not listen, as the court will decide if the speeding was justified.
9.Keep paperwork dealing with your speeding tickets! a.A copy of the ticket. b.License plate and ID number of the officer's car. c.Make and model of the radar gun used. d.A personal account of events, including place, time, weather conditions, amount of traffic, officer's attitude... whatever detail that you think might be relevant.
If you follow the first several tips on this list, the officer may let you get off with just a warning. By being cooperative, the officer may give you a break. However, if the officer is definitely going to write up the speeding ticket, follow the end of the list to make the experience as quick and easy as possible.
I recently quit my job to work at home and sell my first book? Directed Dreaming, Success From the Subconscious. It has been really nice not having to answer to anyone else but myself. I get to sleep in, I have time to analyze my dreams, and it was all good!
One day I decided to take off for the mall about 3:00 in the afternoon to buy some baby shower gifts. I got my gifts and headed for home. I was traveling down a road that I have gone down a million times before, and my mind was wandering, thinking about all the work I had to do when I got home. Then suddenly it happened ? I looked back and saw a policeman on a motorcycle behind me with his flashing lights on! I was certain that he was after someone else; I pulled over, only to find him pulling in behind me.
I didn't know what to do because until then I had a perfect record. No accidents, no tickets, nothing! At first I thought I might muster up some tears, but then I felt foolish about that so I sent up a prayer, and tried to focus all the energies in the world on the hope that this officer was a nice guy, and I was a nice person, and he would not give me a ticket. I begged the officer not to write me up, but to make a long story short, for the first time in my life I received that dreaded speeding ticket!
As I was driving home, I wondered why I had never seen a policeman on that road before, and what had changed that day? As I said earlier, I had traveled down that road a million times, but never once noticed a policeman, or even saw anyone pulled over.
As I was thinking about it, the only thing that changed was my freedom. Usually when I am on that road, it's full of other travelers ? doing errands on weekends, at lunchtime, etc, I never thought about the speed limit before, because I never got up enough speed to even be concerned about it with so many others on the road. On that day, I was driving at a time when I am usually not out, and even though the road and the surroundings looked the same, they were, in reality, completely different than usual.
I guess what I'm trying to warn you about is to be careful in your normal surroundings, but even more importantly, when something in your life changes, be especially aware of your surroundings until you get a feel for them. There are small changes that happen thought the day ? and things are not always as they seem.
Of course now I found this book on ?Proven Tips to Avoid and Fight Speeding Tickets? The Author is a person like me, who wants to prevent others from getting in this sticky situation, and I found out that it was a good thing that I didn't cry.
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