Failure to obey traffic sign in VA

[Anonymous]

I got one of those once. The cop gave it to me because it was a cheaper ticket than the ticket for making a right turn on red when you're not supposed to turn right on red. I was genuinely flustered when he pulled me over (hadn't seen the sign), and very polite, plus I have a clean driving record so I think he felt sorry for me.

It's not an expensive ticket (back then, it was $30 plus the $50 admin fee) and it doesn't come with points. I'd just pay it and be glad it's not a bigger ticket.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I got one of those once. The cop gave it to me because it was a cheaper ticket than the ticket for making a right turn on red when you're not supposed to turn right on red. I was genuinely flustered when he pulled me over (hadn't seen the sign), and very polite, plus I have a clean driving record so I think he felt sorry for me.

It's not an expensive ticket (back then, it was $30 plus the $50 admin fee) and it doesn't come with points. I'd just pay it and be glad it's not a bigger ticket.

http://www.dmv.state.va.us/drivers/#points_3.asp


points.

[Anonymous]

I'm the OP. My husband has zero points. I have zero points. Many of you are incredibly naive about the racket that goes on between police, judges, lawyers and their county jurisdictions. This is a money making mechanism and nothing more.

By "fighting" the ticket, you pay a lawyer to go to court for you, the judge gets paid for hearing the case, a penalty is paid to the county and the officer gets a little something as well.

If my kids were pulled over? They'd lose their car for a good long while.

My husband is an adult. He was going 44 in a 35. So was everyone else. Hence the lesser ticket. The officer was perfectly pleasant and so was my husband.

Our speeding tickets happened in our early 20s. We are in our mid 40s now.

Thank you to those who posted helpful info. Much appreciated!

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm the OP. My husband has zero points. I have zero points. Many of you are incredibly naive about the racket that goes on between police, judges, lawyers and their county jurisdictions. This is a money making mechanism and nothing more.

By "fighting" the ticket, you pay a lawyer to go to court for you, the judge gets paid for hearing the case, a penalty is paid to the county and the officer gets a little something as well.

If my kids were pulled over? They'd lose their car for a good long while.

My husband is an adult. He was going 44 in a 35. So was everyone else. Hence the lesser ticket. The officer was perfectly pleasant and so was my husband.

Our speeding tickets happened in our early 20s. We are in our mid 40s now.

Thank you to those who posted helpful info. Much appreciated!

You are a moron.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband is an adult. He was going 44 in a 35. So was everyone else. Hence the lesser ticket. The officer was perfectly pleasant and so was my husband.

Please don't do that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like the officer gave him a break. Just pay it.

This.

It happened to me. I recently got my first ticket in 25 years of driving..

Officer caught me on a downhill section of road. I think I was clocked at 13 mph over the 25 mph limit on a wide straightaway. So I was going 38.

He wrote the "failure to obey a traffic sign" ticket, which was about $100 including court fees (I just paid it online and didn't go to court -- I was guilty). The speeding ticket would have been double, I think -- $6 for each mph over, plus all the court fees and the like. He even described it as giving me a break.

FWIW, I did get an unsolicited letter from a lawyer trying to put the fear of GOD into me about needing representation. But I just paid the damn thing -- there was no fuss. You don't have to go to court for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I got one of those once. The cop gave it to me because it was a cheaper ticket than the ticket for making a right turn on red when you're not supposed to turn right on red. I was genuinely flustered when he pulled me over (hadn't seen the sign), and very polite, plus I have a clean driving record so I think he felt sorry for me.

It's not an expensive ticket (back then, it was $30 plus the $50 admin fee) and it doesn't come with points. I'd just pay it and be glad it's not a bigger ticket.

http://www.dmv.state.va.us/drivers/#points_3.asp


points.

NP: But I've lived in VA 20 years without getting a ticket. I have negative five points already, so getting one of these would leave me at negative 2. I'm not going to worry about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm the OP. My husband has zero points. I have zero points. Many of you are incredibly naive about the racket that goes on between police, judges, lawyers and their county jurisdictions. This is a money making mechanism and nothing more.

By "fighting" the ticket, you pay a lawyer to go to court for you, the judge gets paid for hearing the case, a penalty is paid to the county and the officer gets a little something as well.

If my kids were pulled over? They'd lose their car for a good long while.

My husband is an adult. He was going 44 in a 35. So was everyone else. Hence the lesser ticket. The officer was perfectly pleasant and so was my husband.

Our speeding tickets happened in our early 20s. We are in our mid 40s now.

Thank you to those who posted helpful info. Much appreciated!

Um, judges do not get paid by the case OP. And they sadly have enough on their daily dockets as it is without having to go look for more work. I realize you are upset but you are being a bit inflammatory here.

[Anonymous]

Do whatever you want. Tell your asshole DH to slow down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm the OP. My husband has zero points. I have zero points. Many of you are incredibly naive about the racket that goes on between police, judges, lawyers and their county jurisdictions. This is a money making mechanism and nothing more.

By "fighting" the ticket, you pay a lawyer to go to court for you, the judge gets paid for hearing the case, a penalty is paid to the county and the officer gets a little something as well.

If my kids were pulled over? They'd lose their car for a good long while.

My husband is an adult. He was going 44 in a 35. So was everyone else. Hence the lesser ticket. The officer was perfectly pleasant and so was my husband.

Our speeding tickets happened in our early 20s. We are in our mid 40s now.

Thank you to those who posted helpful info. Much appreciated!

In other words, he was speeding. My advice to him is to stop doing that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm the OP. My husband has zero points. I have zero points. Many of you are incredibly naive about the racket that goes on between police, judges, lawyers and their county jurisdictions. This is a money making mechanism and nothing more.

By "fighting" the ticket, you pay a lawyer to go to court for you, the judge gets paid for hearing the case, a penalty is paid to the county and the officer gets a little something as well.

If my kids were pulled over? They'd lose their car for a good long while.

My husband is an adult. He was going 44 in a 35. So was everyone else. Hence the lesser ticket. The officer was perfectly pleasant and so was my husband.

Our speeding tickets happened in our early 20s. We are in our mid 40s now.

Thank you to those who posted helpful info. Much appreciated!

I believe it would qualify as a racket if your husband were going 34 in a 35 MPH zone and not exceeding the speed limit.
Because he was going 44 in a 35 MPH zone, he was given a ticket. How much was it? Do you need a gofundme site to pay it? If not, have your husband either pay a lawyer more than the cost of the ticket to appeal the racket or pay the ticket.

[Anonymous]

Drivers are the most entitled people on the face of the earth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm the OP. My husband has zero points. I have zero points. Many of you are incredibly naive about the racket that goes on between police, judges, lawyers and their county jurisdictions. This is a money making mechanism and nothing more.

By "fighting" the ticket, you pay a lawyer to go to court for you, the judge gets paid for hearing the case, a penalty is paid to the county and the officer gets a little something as well.

If my kids were pulled over? They'd lose their car for a good long while.

My husband is an adult. He was going 44 in a 35. So was everyone else. Hence the lesser ticket. The officer was perfectly pleasant and so was my husband.

Our speeding tickets happened in our early 20s. We are in our mid 40s now.

Thank you to those who posted helpful info. Much appreciated!

What, exactly, are you implying the officer "gets?"

He or she gets paid for being in court. Because, you know, he's working. most would not be in traffic court by choice. My husband has gone as many as 21 days without a complete day off, and as long as 3 months without 2 in a row unless he took a vacation day because of having to go to traffic court for morons like your husband. 44 in a 35 is more than 20% over the posted limit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, absolutely, "points will be awarded" (congrats!) and insurance will learn of the "award."

No. I got the same citation and no points were awarded. The officer was clear on this when he gave me the ticket and it was indeed the case.