My question involves a traffic ticket from the state of: California
Lil did I know a cop in an unmarked car can site me for a traffic violation, but they can (very common mistake). He can as long it's not his primary duty to enforce traffic laws. Anyways, I was going 77-78 in a 45mph zone that is on the outskirts of my town(medium size, about 125k pop.) where it's a 4 lane, divided by a wide island, road with no houses or sidewalks on either side of the street. The street has a big curve to it and there is nothing in the way of me completely seeing through the whole curve and on down the street once it straightens out. there were just 2 cars on the road besides me.....the undercover cop and 1 other, and they were plenty far enough apart to where I safely changed lanes as I sped by the undercover cop and then changed lanes, then passed up the other car. So he sticks it to me and impounds my car and charges me with reckless driving. Fortunatly 11 days after my car was towed I talked to the main Sargent at the ploice station and explained what all happened in great detail and he released my car 2/3rds early. Cost me $720 instead of $1385. So today I look at the ticket cause the court date is soon and I see that the officer wrote that the posted speed limit is 40....but it's actually 45. He put my speed down as 80+ with it being a visual estimate only. Obviously he isn't trained to do traffic stops cause he is undercover. I know there are certain things that if written down wrong will get the whole thing thrown out. Is the wrong speed limit one of them? They also had to send me a correction in the mail cause he didn't even write me up for the correct violation (which of course is within their legal rights, but shows he barely knows what he is doing in regards to traffic citations). I do know that speding alone isn't enough to get a reckless driving ticket. On top of all that like I said, the Sargent saw the case file and felt I had been punnished enough already and let me have my car back WAY early.
Thx for taking the time to read all that. What kinda feedback do you guys have for me?

