OT: red light camera ticket for right turn and 0.1 secs

[Coronita]

[quote=desmond]Flu,
I can see it now:
http://life.nationalpost.com/2011/12/05/4m-car-crash-in-japan-takes-out-eight-ferraris-one-lamborghini/%5B/quote%5D

I’m sure we see a lot more pileups from big SUV drivers or people that still yap on the cell phone.

Just a few days ago, a soccer mom in a LX 570 was backing out of the driveway while I was walking. I saw her start to backup then she stopped… So I thought she saw me and started to walk across her driveway. Little did I know that she only stopped to get her cellphone and then she proceeded to back into into…It wasn’t just rolling off the driveway. She floored it and barely missed me. She did say sorry though profusely…Those idiot drivers that crashed their 8 ferraris would have done so regardless if what rules were on the road. Because they suck. Tighter licensing rules probably would have helped.

[ucodegen]

[quote flu]Consider taking off your front and back license plate. If you get pulled over for it, it’s a cheap “fix it” ticket[/quote]Except for one problem. The officer could impound your vehicle if it doesn’t have plates but the registration shows that it does. It is at his discretion. Potential damage in the tow yard (they are not that careful of other people’s cars), tow fees and impound lot fees more than counteract any potential gains here.

[Coronita]

[quote=ucodegen][quote flu]Consider taking off your front and back license plate. If you get pulled over for it, it’s a cheap “fix it” ticket[/quote]Except for one problem. The officer could impound your vehicle if it doesn’t have plates but the registration shows that it does. It is at his discretion. Potential damage in the tow yard (they are not that careful of other people’s cars), tow fees and impound lot fees more than counteract any potential gains here.[/quote]

Not really, just keep the back one it in the trunk say it fell off and show him some loose screw… And say that you didn’t know you had to put the front ones on.

I don’t have front plate one of my cars for the past 12 years, because I don’t like getting my bumper drilled in front. And it’s never been a problem..Rarely do they make a fuss about the front plate, and the only time when they do is when they pull you over, and decide to give you a warning but feel an urge that they have to write you for something…

Well, that, or just dont run a red light or stop sign.

[Hatfield]

They don’t enforce front plates much in SD but they do up in LA. A friend of mine used to commute between here and Pasadena and got hassled about it all the time. When he bought his next car, he decided to put NO plates on it. He just left the paper dealer advertising plates on and put the DMV plates in the trunk. For like three years he did this! When the paper plates started getting faded he’d go back to the dealer and ask for new ones.

He got stopped at one point and the cop, after looking at the registration and seeing that plates had been issued, asked why the plates aren’t on the car. My friend spun some long spiel (some of which was true but most of which was highly exaggerated) about how the plates arrived in the mail right when he was moving, they’d gotten lost in a moving box and they had just turned up last week, hadn’t gotten around to putting them on yet, they’re in the trunk I can show them to you, etc. Cop gave him a lecture but let him off without so much as a fixit ticket.

I was tempted to try the same thing but didn’t have the balls to pull it off. I’m a terrible liar and I’d probably blow my story.

[Coronita]

Bump…

This is awesome..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FN_wcDgDWwc#!

Hide a plate.

[Anonymous]

I recieved a similar ticket. Same situation with a rolling stop into a right turn at the red light. With the photos provided it is not clear that a violation occured. One photo has the vehicle stopped, the next proceeding to turn right on the red light.

How did your predicament turn out?

[Scarlett]

I got my ticket dismissed because of some “admin” reasons I suppose. I’ve use ticketkick.

[The-Shoveler]

Scarlett,
you used ticketKick ?

My Wife got a red light camera ticket and we were thinking of using one of those guaranteed to get you out of your ticket or your money back, just wondering if anyone has experience using these services such as ticketkick.

[bearishgurl]

In January, I processed a TicketKick appeal for a friend who got a red-light camera ticket in MV. Their ticket had a “Declaration” from an “officer” who stated he wasn’t present at the scene but located in AZ. My friend paid $200 to TK for a Trial by Declaration and was subsequently found guilty by a SD traffic judge. I then processed TK’s money-back guarantee and my friend had the $200 credit on their cc within 30 days.

My friend could have then requested a “real” trial but they chose not to because they are too busy with work.

The court gave them 4 more mos to complete traffic school. After they completed an online course, I sent in the Certificate of Completion and subsequently called the court to verify that the ticket has been dismissed. And it has.

Note: You have to post the bail (in this case, $480) within the required time frame and file the Trial by Declaration before your appearance date.

Total cost was $508 (after the TK refund was processed).

[The-Shoveler]

Thanks for the feedback BG,

I guess sometimes it works sometimes it don’t

[bearishgurl]

[quote=The-Shoveler]Thanks for the feedback BG,

I guess sometimes it works sometimes it don’t[/quote]

You have nothing to lose by trying. My friend’s photo was blurry also but he was found guilty anyway.

[CricketOnTheHearth]

I hate the Mira Mesa Blvd at Black Mountain Rd and Westview Parkway lights. It seems like those lights have slightly short yellows. They “love to” turn yellow just when I am too close to stop without throwing every loose thing in the car into the windshield; but just far enough away that I have to gun it to make it through the yellow light. I hate being mousetrapped like that. I’m still watching the mailbox in case one of those times I got “flashed”.

I hate to slow down for the lights when they’re still green– it annoys the drivers behind me and I feel like a real doofus if the light stays green the whole time I go through it.

It’s better when the crosswalk signal is still flashing the red hand and numbers; that way I know I still have a little time but better get through there. It’s when the light is green but the crosswalk is just the plain red hand… that’s when I’m really not sure how much time I have until the yellow.

Funniest was when my housemate was driving the big slow truck from his work through one of those intersections while I rode shotgun. The light turned yellow just as he got to it. No way he could stop that big boat in time. So he sailed through the intersection giving the light a two-handed middle finger salute. Bet that looked good on the cameras.

[ucodegen]

The signal cameras should not ‘arm’ until the light turns red. When it turns red, there is a sensor near the start of the intersection, just beyond where you stop.. that will trigger the camera. It is basically a wire loop put into the pavement by cutting a slot in it (kind of an over sized metal detector). There should be two picts taken, to verify that you didn’t ‘stop’ on that sensor.. and to validate speed.

Technically, the yellow light should last 1 second for every 10mph of the speed limit on the road that the red light will be stopping. This value is roughly tied to the amount of time a car takes to stop from that speed (safely), as a minimum. The lights don’t always obey it. NOTE: For 45mph, that would be nearly 5 seconds of yellow.

[Diego Mamani]

[quote=Hatfield]They don’t enforce front plates much in SD but they do up in LA. [/quote]
My experience, more than 10 years ago, was the opposite. I had my rear license plate stolen, registration tags included, from just outside USC in L.A. I filed a police report, moved the front license plate to the back, and then I paid $15 to the DMV for replacement tags/stickers (month and year). I then drove in L.A. w/o a front plate for over a year, before moving to San Diego. After about 5 months living in Point Loma, a cop stopped me and gave me a fix-it ticket.

My original plate was blue and started with 1G…, the new plate was white and started with 4AL…

[no_such_reality]

You ran a red light. It is that simple. A yellow light means the light is. Hanging to red And you should do so unless unsafe. It does not mean ‘I think I can make It before the red, go!’

Simply said you were racing the light which is actually one of the most dangerous things out there

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