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[quote=Anonymous]The violation was there.  If a police officer stopped you, your explanation may or may not have been persuasive in inducing giving you a break, but automated ticket enforcement mechanisms have no discretion.  X amount over the limit and that's it.  It seems unlikely to me that you'd be absolved of responsibility well after the fact by a hearing officer or judge, especially given the fundamental irrelevance of speeding to your ultimate medical outcome in this case - any layman would reasonably infer that arriving a few minutes earlier to the ER would make no practical difference to your survival or recovery from an infection, given that you were sufficiently well to drive yourself in the first instance.  And, most people know that non-ambulance arrivals at ERs can end up waiting around to be seen anyway, depending how they are triaged as to the severity of their situation.  You were not having a heart attack, stroke, you could breathe, weren't having a potentially fatal anaphylactic reaction, were not going into a diabetic coma, were not exsanguinating, etc - you're probably not going to get a whole lot of sympathy using a severe infection which had probably been present for some time as an excuse for why you were cited.  [/quote]

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