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Originally Posted by MightyDog
Wouldn't you be somewhat indignant about being written a ticket for going 3 miles over the speed limit (and for $400!)?
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Florida Statue 318.18 does NOT allow police to write tickets for less than 6 MPH over the limit.
For speed exceeding the limit by:
1-5 mph..........Warning
...UNLESS you are in a School Zone. Fruitland Park schools opened on August 12. The schools close at 3PM so if you were driving by "just a after 3" the school zone was active. And the signs I saw say "WHEN FLASHING" nothing about when children are present.
Fines are doubled in school zones so your $150 ticket (for 18 over) was doubled. (When I was in Las Vegas school zone fines were $100 per single MPH over 20!) The fine would have been $1,800!
My experience is the Ticket Clinic only asks to waive the points--the fine stands--you just don't pay the points. I have never seen a Ticket Clinic lawyer "fight the primary ticket". People pay the TC $99 to waive the points...NOT fight the ticket per se.