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Fighting a Traffic Ticket in Court - UPDATE: I WON!!!!!!!!!!!

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ChadTower:

--- Quote from: shmokes on January 09, 2008, 12:51:50 pm --- You clearly could have stopped safely when you saw the yellow light (assuming you were paying attention and actually saw the light turn yellow).

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I'd love to see someone present an "I wasn't paying enough attention to stop safely" defense.    ;D

You may also want to consider whether or not you want to spend your time in court fighting a traffic ticket.  Is it worth burning a day off work?  If your record is so immaculate, odds are you won't get more until after this one is out of range for higher penalties, so it may not be worth your time.

Samstag:

--- Quote from: Jdurg on January 09, 2008, 11:13:07 am ---2):  I was already in the intersection when the light turned red, and according to the statute I was ticketed for that means I have every legal right to continue on my way.  "14-299 (2) Yellow: Vehicular traffic facing a steady yellow signal is thereby warned that the related green movement is being terminated or that a red indication will be exhibited immediately thereafter, when vehicular traffic shall stop before entering the intersection unless so close to the intersection that a stop cannot be made in safety; pedestrians facing a steady yellow signal, except when directed by separate pedestrian-control signals, are thereby advised that there is insufficient time to cross the roadway before a red indication is shown and no pedestrian shall then start to cross the roadway."
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You're misinterpreting the bolded section.  This applies to the yellow signal.  You are expected to immediately slow down and not enter the intersection unless it is unsafe under a yellow light.  Unless the light was malfunctioning, you were well above the speed limit, or you weren't paying attention, you ignored the yellow and so were in the middle of the intersection when it went red.

I'm not aware of any states where your logic would win in court.

tommy:
There are times when a person is going the speed limit and just so happens to be in the "point of no return" area under the light and can be seen as breaking the law, when they really are not. The problem is so many people like to use this lie that when it really happens to a person it is laughable to cops.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: Samstag on January 09, 2008, 01:03:26 pm ---I'm not aware of any states where your logic would win in court.

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Confusion... delusion... and Alabama.

Jdurg:
The court is actually within a moderate walking distance from where I work.  Also, the intersection where this occurred isn't a classic "two roads meet" intersection.  It is where the two-lane off-ramp from the highway meets Route 12 which is two lanes in each direction, and then it also intersects with Kings Highway which is one lane in each direction.  To make a full turn from Kings Highway onto Route 12 (which is what I was doing) takes 3 seconds if you are going the speed limit.  The way the traffic light functions there, it is very probably for you to be entering the intersection with your light being yellow and still be in the intersection when the other side is just turning green.

Below is the Google Map satellite view of this location.  I've labelled it to describe the event.  Where my car was when the light turned red meant that I had every right of way according to Connecticut Law to be continuing my left turn onto Route 12 North.  In addition, with this officer being a new officer I question whether he truly knows this light and that he can have a green light showing and I can still be in the intersection when his light turns green.

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