How To Fight A Laser Speeding Ticket In Alberta

This article was originally published on aug.

How to fight a laser speeding ticket in alberta. Laser stands for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. The information i will share with you in this article is based upon my 20 years of experience as a sworn law enforcement officer and my 18 plus years in the speed counter. Many speeding tickets result from the police officer following or pacing a suspected speeder and using his or her own speedometer to clock the suspect s speed. You will not have to miss school or work as we will represent you in court on all your speeding careless driving stop sign or driving while unauthorized tickets among many other violations under the traffic safety act.

Trust in alberta traffic defenders for all your court appearance needs. Fighting a traffic ticket may feel like an uphill battle. I plead guilty and asked the crown prosecutor to reduce the amount of the fine. In most jurisdictions minor traffic violations such as speeding are infractions not crimes meaning you don t have the same rights as defendants do in the criminal courts such as the right to a jury or the right to a free attorney.

I recently received a traffic ticket for speeding. It is possible to successfully fight a traffic ticket in court. To successfully challenge a laser speeding ticket in court you must understand the working of a laser gun. I was going 85km h in a 60km h zone.

Radar the device calculates the speed of the vehicle based on the length of time it takes the radio waves to return to the unit from the target vehicle. Home guides how to beat your ticket guide how to beat photo radar and red light camera tickets how to beat your photo radar and red light camera citation forward. Working of a laser gun. A calculation is made based off the time the laser takes to travel back and by the difference in laser burst distances.

Infrared light is emitted from the device targeting the vehicle in question and bouncing back to the device. To challenge a speeding ticket the motorist or attorney needs to know which device the officer used to measure speed and the basics of how that device works. With this technique the officer must maintain a constant distance between the police vehicle and the suspect s car long enough to make a reasonably accurate estimate of its speed. But if you base it on something you ve seen in a movie it might not work.

I received a fine 250 and 3 demerit points i attempted to fight the traffic ticket on my own and i was not successful. He told me i could pay the fine and not get any demerits or reduce the fine to 70 from 115 but keep the demerits.