a speeding ticket =/.
Does anyone know how much a speeding ticket cost?
The cop told me like 150-170 but other people tell me its over 300 =[.

 

It all depends on how much over you were goingand what the local laws are for speeding. Expect at least $100.

 

+1, how fast were you going?

 

+1 I got a speeding ticket in Louisiana once for doing 70 in a 55 and the ticket was somewhere around $180 if I remember correctly (but this was like 15 years ago). I got one in Oklahoma for roughly the same thing once and it was something like half of that. Just depends on where you are.

After paying high premiums on my insurance for a while (this is where tickets really cost you) I learned to keep my foot out of it. Some life lessons are expensive!

 

It will all depend on how fast you were going. Not sure how it works for adults or whatever, but a couple of my friends have been able to plead their tickets down to lesser things as long as they go back to driving school. It will cost about the same as paying the ticket but you wont lose the points and if you get it pled down to a non-moving violation, your insurance premiums wont increase.

Also, If you were in an old mustang and not a newer car, you might be able to plead it down to a vehicle malfunction if you get a good judge. Just tell him your speedo was off cuz its old and you didnt know you were speeding.

 

+1 Thats what I plan to do if I get a ticket. bt. I'm in CA and if you are going less than 20mph over the speed limit and you have no moving violateion in the last 18mo you can go to traffic school and get it wipped out completely.
Kip

 

Seems odd you wouldn't know how much it was as soon as the officer gave you the ticket. Around here, they write the amount on the ticket they hand you (I've never gotten one, but I was in the truck with my dad when he got one). Of course we don't deal with "points" on our licenses here either, wyoming is a bit old fashioned.

 

how does it work then?

 

Getting a ticket? You get pulled over, the cop gives you the ticket and you sign it to verify you got it, then you either pay it at city hall, or get a little court date thing set up if you want to bother contesting it in any way, then you pay it and it's done. Pretty straight forward. Speeding up to 80mph is a maximum of $25 fine, past that the officer determines it, but from everything I've heard and read in the paper under the court records they aren't very much.

 

I need to move to Wyoming.