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    Default Speeding Ticket After Entering Highway

    My question involves a traffic ticket from the state of: Indiana.

    Friday,4pm. I exit work and travel about a mile on a county road before entering a 4 lane,divided highway.As I wait for southbound traffic to clear to get across the median to go north,a marked State Trooper goes by. I enter the highway and get up to speed to get in front of the on coming northbound traffic.I get up to speed and roughly 7/10ths of a mile later the cop in front of me pulls over into the turn lane waiting for me to go around and then pulls me over.Confused as to getting pulled over he takes my license and registration and returns minutes later informing me that I was speeding and wrote the ticket for 75mph in a 60 zone.I was surprised at the speed as I don't typically speed and never that fast.(4 1/2 years with license and no tickets),and the truck has a terrible vibration at speeds over 65 so I avoid it).I've went back on my way home from work on the following days trying to re-enact how I was driving that day and just can't buy into the 75 mph. I'm on the highway for a total of 1.09 miles.I was pulled over at roughly 7/10th of a mile.My question is to more of how I could of been clocked.The cop explained nothing and I didn't think to ask at the time.Can someone explain how the radar would work from due behind the car?Could it of picked up my acceleration from zero up to highway speed and falsely mistaken as a rapid acceleration from highway speed upwards like from a car already traveling at highway speed?I just feel that from acceleration from 0 up to speed has the radar thrown off versues a typical situation where a car is already traveling up to speed.

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    Default Re: Speeding Ticket After Entering Highway

    Here's a website that explains how radar guns work: http://www.howstuffworks.com/radar-detector1.htm

    I think it'll answer all you questions. Your bigger problem now is contesting that ticket though. Since it's your first, you have a good chance of getting a deferred sentence so that it doesn't end up on your record. So be sure to ask for that at traffic courts.

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    Default Re: Speeding Ticket After Entering Highway

    Does not sound like the OP wishes to contest, just had ? about radar that a 10 second google search could have discovered ... I don't have high hopes for this one contesting ...

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    Default Re: Speeding Ticket After Entering Highway

    Thank you.So does it seem plausible that as I accelerated from a stop up to highway speed,that the radar mislead him as if I was speeding from highway speed to a higher rate of speed?

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    Default Re: Speeding Ticket After Entering Highway

    Quote Quoting DTB
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    Thank you.So does it seem plausible that as I accelerated from a stop up to highway speed,that the radar mislead him as if I was speeding from highway speed to a higher rate of speed?
    If this is your defense that's fine. You going to have an expert to testify to this? If not, think of another defense.

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