Process for contesting camera tickets

[Anonymous]

What a surprise, another entitled driver who thinks he or she is above the law.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a two-step process:
1. Pay the ticket.
2. Move on with your life.

You forgot the third step: slow the F down.


There should be speed cameras on every road in the state. Or better yet, a automated sensor system in your car, like a EZ pass with embedded GPS, that keeps track of where you are, which road you’re on, and fines you accordingly every time you go more than 10mph over the limit.

That would be the ideal situation.

I’m sick and tired of people doing 50 mph through my neighborhood.

This thank you.

I once got to sit in at a meeting with a local politician with a bunch of people bitching about their traffic camera tickets. So MPD brought in the video and still footage of every single violation the people in the room were complaining about.

And every single video and every single photo showed a clear violation of the law - these were almost all for red light violations for people who either made aggressive right on reds or stopped 10-20 feet past the stop bar.

It was just one whiny complaint after another "well right on red is allowed at this intersection" and "well I did stop for the red light."

One of the most vocal complainants made the aggressive right on red with pedestrians in the crosswalk who had to wait for him to make his turn and he still thought he was in the right and was an aggrieved party!

So OP what is the citation for that you think you didn't commit and should be left off the hook?

1. Relax Matlock.
2. It was a speed camera ticket on Macarthur Blvd, but in an area with such high traffic during rush hour that it’s impossible to speed without plowing into other cars. I only drive that way during the work week in the 8am hour, so I’m puzzled as to how I could have been going over 25. I’m contesting it because I need actual proof that I was speeding, not a machine that likely hasn’t been serviced in god knows how long. They’ve just admitted during a an audit last month that over 55% of speed cameras in work zones weren’t properly inspected issuing tens of thousands of tickets improperly.
I don’t know about you, but I’m not wasting $100 for something that can be handled during my lunch break and possibly save other drivers from being falsely ticketed.

There is a ton of speeding on Macarthur so you are delusional if you believe otherwise. And since you believe otherwise you are likely a suburban commuter cutting through a residential neighborhood driving on a residential street so as is always the case with this complaints your work around to avoid tickets is to just drive the speed limit.

And what a weird argument - you actually believe it isn't possible to speed on a congested road? Have you never driven on the beltway.

Why isn't the traffic citation proof?

I follow traffic enforcement issues in DC pretty closely and don't recall ever seeing anything about a problem with the machines being calibrated improperly so speaking of citations please provide one for this allegation.

And you can't even get a ticket in DC unless you are 11MPH over the speed limit so the machine would have to be really poorly calibrated.

But enjoy wasting time fighting this citation - at least it will be time you aren't on the road.

What must it be like to go through life making false assumptions? I live in the city - DC proper, not the suburbs. No, the automated speed camera ticket is not proof. A simple Google search would demonstrate how often those cameras are wrong not including the February 2019 study that I already mentioned.

But my original request was about how this actual process works, not to have you make silly remarks that aren't true and have no bearing on the question at hand. But thanks for playing!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a surprise, another entitled driver who thinks he or she is above the law.

Thanks for your useful input. Oh wait...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a two-step process:
1. Pay the ticket.
2. Move on with your life.

You forgot the third step: slow the F down.


There should be speed cameras on every road in the state. Or better yet, a automated sensor system in your car, like a EZ pass with embedded GPS, that keeps track of where you are, which road you’re on, and fines you accordingly every time you go more than 10mph over the limit.

That would be the ideal situation.

I’m sick and tired of people doing 50 mph through my neighborhood.

Im sick of people doing 13 mph in a 25 and coming to a complete stop in front of the cameras.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a two-step process:
1. Pay the ticket.
2. Move on with your life.

You forgot the third step: slow the F down.


There should be speed cameras on every road in the state. Or better yet, a automated sensor system in your car, like a EZ pass with embedded GPS, that keeps track of where you are, which road you’re on, and fines you accordingly every time you go more than 10mph over the limit.

That would be the ideal situation.

I’m sick and tired of people doing 50 mph through my neighborhood.

This thank you.

I once got to sit in at a meeting with a local politician with a bunch of people bitching about their traffic camera tickets. So MPD brought in the video and still footage of every single violation the people in the room were complaining about.

And every single video and every single photo showed a clear violation of the law - these were almost all for red light violations for people who either made aggressive right on reds or stopped 10-20 feet past the stop bar.

It was just one whiny complaint after another "well right on red is allowed at this intersection" and "well I did stop for the red light."

One of the most vocal complainants made the aggressive right on red with pedestrians in the crosswalk who had to wait for him to make his turn and he still thought he was in the right and was an aggrieved party!

So OP what is the citation for that you think you didn't commit and should be left off the hook?

1. Relax Matlock.
2. It was a speed camera ticket on Macarthur Blvd, but in an area with such high traffic during rush hour that it’s impossible to speed without plowing into other cars. I only drive that way during the work week in the 8am hour, so I’m puzzled as to how I could have been going over 25. I’m contesting it because I need actual proof that I was speeding, not a machine that likely hasn’t been serviced in god knows how long. They’ve just admitted during a an audit last month that over 55% of speed cameras in work zones weren’t properly inspected issuing tens of thousands of tickets improperly.
I don’t know about you, but I’m not wasting $100 for something that can be handled during my lunch break and possibly save other drivers from being falsely ticketed.

There is a ton of speeding on Macarthur so you are delusional if you believe otherwise. And since you believe otherwise you are likely a suburban commuter cutting through a residential neighborhood driving on a residential street so as is always the case with this complaints your work around to avoid tickets is to just drive the speed limit.

And what a weird argument - you actually believe it isn't possible to speed on a congested road? Have you never driven on the beltway.

Why isn't the traffic citation proof?

I follow traffic enforcement issues in DC pretty closely and don't recall ever seeing anything about a problem with the machines being calibrated improperly so speaking of citations please provide one for this allegation.

And you can't even get a ticket in DC unless you are 11MPH over the speed limit so the machine would have to be really poorly calibrated.

But enjoy wasting time fighting this citation - at least it will be time you aren't on the road.

What must it be like to go through life making false assumptions? I live in the city - DC proper, not the suburbs. No, the automated speed camera ticket is not proof. A simple Google search would demonstrate how often those cameras are wrong not including the February 2019 study that I already mentioned.

But my original request was about how this actual process works, not to have you make silly remarks that aren't true and have no bearing on the question at hand. But thanks for playing!

Again where is the citation that there is a calibration problem with the DC Cameras?

And the traffic citation which comes with evidence from the camera and has been accepted as proof so in fact you are wrong about this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a two-step process:
1. Pay the ticket.
2. Move on with your life.

You forgot the third step: slow the F down.


There should be speed cameras on every road in the state. Or better yet, a automated sensor system in your car, like a EZ pass with embedded GPS, that keeps track of where you are, which road you’re on, and fines you accordingly every time you go more than 10mph over the limit.

That would be the ideal situation.

I’m sick and tired of people doing 50 mph through my neighborhood.

Im sick of people doing 13 mph in a 25 and coming to a complete stop in front of the cameras.

That doesn't bother me in the least. Safer all around for my DSs and my neighbors.