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ChadTower:

Yep.  Traffic court.  Speeding ticket.  Got snagged doing 25.  On an unmarked 15mph street at the bottom of a hill.  Didn't even have my foot on the gas, I was coasting down the hill.    :banghead:

RI has a law that if you have no moving violations within the previous 3 years they will forgive a ticket like this.  So I go to get my driver's record this morning... the only other speeding ticket I've ever had was 2 years 11.5 months before this one.   :banghead:

So I guess I show up at court today and say "uh, I was clear for 2 years 11.5 months, and this is only 25... please don't kill me".   :laugh2:

MustardTent:
IIRC, you're in MA.  Was this ticket out of state (in RI)?  If so, was your ticket 2 years 11.5 months ago also in RI?

ChadTower:

Yep, live in MA right on the RI border.  The ticket was in RI.  That ticket was in MA.  They don't verify themselves, though, they make you get an official copy of your driving record from the state that issued your license.  Then they look at that copy.

shardian:
That is a pretty neat law about letting you off for having a clean record. How did you find that out? I would be interested in seeing if my state has something like that.

The only time I ever got a speeding ticket was in an unincorporated coal town in central WV. Tickets are their only source of city income, so noone ever gets off there.

ChadTower:

The officer who wrote out the ticket told me about it.  Then when I got the summons in the mail it also had details on it.  And when I got my Driver's Record from the MA RMV the teller told me about it.

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