Speeding Ticket “Arresting Officer”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I COMPLETELY understand your concern, OP. But paying a ticket is admitting guilt to violating the law. It seems like you think there’s some category of “ticket infractions” versus “real offenses” when actually it’s a spectrum. What you did was super super minor but you broke the law, admitted guilt, and paid the penalty.

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How fast were you actually going?

Probably 5 mph over the limit. The speed limit was 15 mph. I had just turned onto the 15 mph street from a 25 mph street and didn't slow down quickly enough as the radar was set up to catch folks like me who were turning onto the lower speed road from the higher speed road.

Speeding is strictly enforced here because bicyclists, dog walker & horses with riders are welcome on our roads--but none were present at the time.

I asked to be given a warning since I had a clean record. The officer called HQ and was told not to give a warning.

But, and this may be important to OP and to others, when I went to municipal court, I pled "No Contest" rather than "guilty". And, yes, I do know that a nolo plea is tantamount to a plea of guilty for the offense charged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I COMPLETELY understand your concern, OP. But paying a ticket is admitting guilt to violating the law. It seems like you think there’s some category of “ticket infractions” versus “real offenses” when actually it’s a spectrum. What you did was super super minor but you broke the law, admitted guilt, and paid the penalty.

+1

How fast were you actually going?

Probably 5 mph over the limit. The speed limit was 15 mph. I had just turned onto the 15 mph street from a 25 mph street and didn't slow down quickly enough as the radar was set up to catch folks like me who were turning onto the lower speed road from the higher speed road.

Speeding is strictly enforced here because bicyclists, dog walker & horses with riders are welcome on our roads--but none were present at the time.

I asked to be given a warning since I had a clean record. The officer called HQ and was told not to give a warning.

Your original post says you were on the PA Turnpike. Where does the turnpike has 15 mph limits, horses and pedestrians?.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A few months ago I got a ticket for going 6mph over the speed limit on the PA Turnpike. The ticketing officer said he bumped it down from a speeding ticket to a ticket for failure to follow the rules of the Turnpike. I paid the ticket in a timely manner and thought that was that. However I’ve since noticed that when you Google my name a Pennsylvania court document comes up that lists the ticketing officer as an “arresting officer,” and other things that make the infraction seem more serious than it was. It references sentencing, my guilty plea, lists my full name, date of birth, city and zip code, refers to me as a defendant, etc. While it lists the section of the PA code I was ticketed under it does so under a section titled “Charges.” It doesn’t note the underlying facts, namely that I was going 6 mph over the speed limit. It does, however, reflect that I paid my fine. Would it make sense to write the clerk of the court that issued this document and ask whether they can take it offline? I don’t want people, potential employers for example, to Google me and incorrectly assume I was arrested and charged with a crime.

No, it doesn't work like that. All of that is factually accurate and is public information. You were, in fact, arrested. Most employers won't care about a traffic infraction.

A traffic ticket for speeding or not obying a sign is an arrest?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A few months ago I got a ticket for going 6mph over the speed limit on the PA Turnpike. The ticketing officer said he bumped it down from a speeding ticket to a ticket for failure to follow the rules of the Turnpike. I paid the ticket in a timely manner and thought that was that. However I’ve since noticed that when you Google my name a Pennsylvania court document comes up that lists the ticketing officer as an “arresting officer,” and other things that make the infraction seem more serious than it was. It references sentencing, my guilty plea, lists my full name, date of birth, city and zip code, refers to me as a defendant, etc. While it lists the section of the PA code I was ticketed under it does so under a section titled “Charges.” It doesn’t note the underlying facts, namely that I was going 6 mph over the speed limit. It does, however, reflect that I paid my fine. Would it make sense to write the clerk of the court that issued this document and ask whether they can take it offline? I don’t want people, potential employers for example, to Google me and incorrectly assume I was arrested and charged with a crime.

No, it doesn't work like that. All of that is factually accurate and is public information. You were, in fact, arrested. Most employers won't care about a traffic infraction.

Technically, yeah. I received a warning for failure to yield (pedestrian waves at me to proceed through crosswalk but stepped into the crosswalk three lanes over from me before I exited the crosswalk) and the warning includes “arrest location.” I didn’t want to make the officer mad and ask if I should have slammed on the brakes once the pedestrian entered the crosswalk.






A traffic ticket for speeding or not obying a sign is an arrest?

[Anonymous]

This is so weird. My kid was instructed to drive 5 miles above the speed limit when taking a road test in Nova. His friend got same instructions. No one in DMV seems to care to slow down to the speed limit even when passing a state trooper checking speeds. That is the first time I ever head of a ticket for going 1-5 miles over. Does radar even have that kind of precision?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I COMPLETELY understand your concern, OP. But paying a ticket is admitting guilt to violating the law. It seems like you think there’s some category of “ticket infractions” versus “real offenses” when actually it’s a spectrum. What you did was super super minor but you broke the law, admitted guilt, and paid the penalty.

+1

How fast were you actually going?

Probably 5 mph over the limit. The speed limit was 15 mph. I had just turned onto the 15 mph street from a 25 mph street and didn't slow down quickly enough as the radar was set up to catch folks like me who were turning onto the lower speed road from the higher speed road.

Speeding is strictly enforced here because bicyclists, dog walker & horses with riders are welcome on our roads--but none were present at the time.

I asked to be given a warning since I had a clean record. The officer called HQ and was told not to give a warning.

Your original post says you were on the PA Turnpike. Where does the turnpike has 15 mph limits, horses and pedestrians?.

This is my question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I COMPLETELY understand your concern, OP. But paying a ticket is admitting guilt to violating the law. It seems like you think there’s some category of “ticket infractions” versus “real offenses” when actually it’s a spectrum. What you did was super super minor but you broke the law, admitted guilt, and paid the penalty.

+1

How fast were you actually going?

Probably 5 mph over the limit. The speed limit was 15 mph. I had just turned onto the 15 mph street from a 25 mph street and didn't slow down quickly enough as the radar was set up to catch folks like me who were turning onto the lower speed road from the higher speed road.

Speeding is strictly enforced here because bicyclists, dog walker & horses with riders are welcome on our roads--but none were present at the time.

I asked to be given a warning since I had a clean record. The officer called HQ and was told not to give a warning.

Your original post says you were on the PA Turnpike. Where does the turnpike has 15 mph limits, horses and pedestrians?.

This is my question.

Different posters.

Maybe Amish country ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is so weird. My kid was instructed to drive 5 miles above the speed limit when taking a road test in Nova. His friend got same instructions. No one in DMV seems to care to slow down to the speed limit even when passing a state trooper checking speeds. That is the first time I ever head of a ticket for going 1-5 miles over. Does radar even have that kind of precision?

right. Officers will pull you over for 15 over but if they write a ticket will lower it to 5 over. They do this hoping you will just prepay and not go to court.

[Anonymous]

Yes, of course radar is precise enough to measure one's exact speed. If it wasn't, then all tickets based on radar could be dismissed. Plus, the law specifies the penalty for speeding 1 to 5 mph over the limit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, of course radar is precise enough to measure one's exact speed. If it wasn't, then all tickets based on radar could be dismissed. Plus, the law specifies the penalty for speeding 1 to 5 mph over the limit.

. Your logic has holes. If radar was only +/-5 precise and indicated you were going 20 over the speed limit, an officer would give you a ticket for going 15 over and you wouldn’t be able to prove that your speed was lower than that.