Beat a Speeding Ticket
One thing that no person wants to face is the prospect of receiving a speeding ticket. It's costly and if you're looking up at a police officer who has stopped you in traffic to write you a citation, it's embarrassing as well.
Hundreds even thousands of times each day people everywhere are pulled over or stopped on the road by a police officer who has spotted them speeding. It's alarming to glance into your rearview mirror and realize that the siren you hear is directed at you. You pull to the shoulder, up walks the officer who asks that dreaded question, "Do you know how fast you were going?"
When we are just learning how to drive, every individual has to pass not only a written test but a driving examination as well. The written test normally consists of dozens of questions all related to safe driving. A common question that is posed on these tests is what the speed limit is if you don't see a sign posting the limit. It varies for each city and county and also it generally changes depending on if you're on the highway or driving a city street.
It seems almost inevitable that if you've been on the roads for anytime, that you'll find yourself with a speeding ticket. It's never pleasant to be pulled over by a police officer and to have to hand over your driver's license and insurance so that he can write you up a ticket that's not only going to cost you some money but a piece of your pride as well.
So you find yourself with a slip of paper that contains both a dollar amount and a date. It's the dreaded speeding ticket. You look at it and realize that you have two choices. You can pay the fine and subject yourself to the possibility of higher insurance premiums or you can plead "not guilty" and appear in court.
With the advent of the radar gun the police are able to determine a motorist's speed effectively and efficiently. They just point and shoot and in that split second they can tell how fast over the limit you were speeding.
Some people naturally seem to have a lead foot. They glance down at the speedometer only to find that almost always, they are whizzing along the road above the legal posted limit. These are generally the people who end up with several speeding tickets within the course of a few years. Considering that each ticket amounts to points taken off of their driver's license and increases in their automobile insurance rates, it's a matter that needs to be taken very seriously.
Regardless of how we view it, speeding is breaking the law. Granted it's not as serious an offence as theft or murder, but under the watchful eyes of the law, it's an infraction. Any time a human being breaks a law there are consequences. In the case of speeding tickets it would seem that the consequences aren't that great. However, that's not the case if you are a repeat offender and you've gotten so many tickets that you are facing time in jail.
As you're racing down the expressway you'll probably notice that many other people are doing exactly the same thing. They are traveling as fast if not faster than you are. The only problem is that if a law enforcement official is ahead with a radar or laser gun you might be the one who is recorded because you're traveling just a bit faster than those around you.
In a road full of traffic it wouldn't seem to matter which lane you were in unless you were planning on exiting onto a side street. However the lane that you are in could be the difference between whether or not you get a speeding ticket.
