Apparently a Speeder
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- Jurisdiction
- Pennsylvania
I'll try to make this brief, but I'm a 20 year old who has never been pulled over or received any citation prior to this and I really need some help. I was driving back to school and on the last stretch of divided highway where the posted limit is 55 mph, I may have been going closer to 65. The highway ends and approaches an intersection where I make my turn, also where the speed limit changes to 40 mph. I believe I could have been speeding, but I was slowing down anyways to make the turn and certainly did not have to slam on my brakes, which would of been the case if I was in fact going 67. I was then pulled over, was very polite to the officer, had all my information ready before he walked up and informed me I was doing 67 in a 45, which he then said "well its actually a 40 mph zone but nobody goes 40 there", and my citation says 67 in a 40. The officer that recorded my speed is not the officer that pulled me over. He said he realizes this is a bad citation and told me to show up in court and he could help me out. Looking over my citation, I see that out of the speed recording options of " Radar, Clocked, A.O.V., ESP, Vascar, and Other", OTHER is the box that is checked. I do not know how they would have measured my speed then. Also in my citation, there is a box that reads Miles Followed which is blank, Miles Timed which is hard to read but it really looks like it says 3 ft, and Seconds Timed which is blank. I do not know exactly how they do it, but if they were to use a stopwatch to measure the time it took me to travel 3 ft and if I was doing 67 mph, the officer would have had 3 hundredths of a second to push the buttons on the timer which is in no way accurate. I really need some help here as my license could get suspended. If it matters, my home town is spelled wrong on the defendant address box. Also under the Nature of Offense box where Speeding the checked, the other box is checked and FNRADO is written in the lines provided. I do not know what this means. PLEASE HELP. Thanks in advance.