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    Default Speeding Ticket Based on Pace

    My question involves a speeding ticket from the State of: WA

    Driving from Seattle to Walla Walla on -I 90 eastbound. I'm keeping pace with everyone(going 73) in the right lane. Trooper on the side of the road, no radar. Decides to join the traffic and is one car behind(so a car between him and I), keeps driving for a couple of miles, then takes the left lane and speeds up. Two cars, myself and the car infront take the left lane soon after, go for a mile, the car infront changes back to right lane, I keep driving. Trooper still ahead and slowing down due to traffic infront if him. I'm still on pace, he pulls over to the right lane and waves me to pull over.

    Comes by the passengers side window and tells me that I was speeding and I'm being recorded, I tell him I am only keeping pace, he asks who's car and I reply my father inlaw, he leaves.

    I'm driving a fairly new Mercedes SUV with plates from British Columbia, Canada. He comes back 5 mins later tells me I was speeding and I can fight it, all the information was on the ticket, I tell him I will.

    I feel I got this ticket because of BC, Canada plates because on the way back another trooper just outside of Walla Walla followed me for 5 miles before turning back. They probably think I'm not going to fight it

    Can I fight it, I don't think he was using a radar to clock me approaching him even though the ticket is checked for SMD

    thanks,

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    Default Re: Speeding Ticket Based on Pace

    Nowhere in there did I read, "I was not speeding". What did I miss?

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    Default Re: Speeding Ticket Based on Pace

    I did say I was going 73. He says he paced me at 80 while I was approaching as he was still driving ahead of me, so I don't know his speed limit

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    Default Re: Speeding Ticket Based on Pace

    And the speed limit was....

    Although even at 73, you were speeding, right?

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    Default Re: Speeding Ticket Based on Pace

    yes, I was speeding more than the 70 but as was everyone around me that was within a couple of car lengths

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    Default Re: Speeding Ticket Based on Pace

    Does the fact that he couldn't distinguish in broad daylight between a green color car and as stated in the ticket 'black' color anything I can bring up?

    Furthermore, he was a few car lengths ahead of me driving, could he both pace and smd me coming from his rear?

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    Default Re: Speeding Ticket Based on Pace

    You can argue what you want to argue in court. But "everybody else was speeding" doesn't mean you weren't speeding, and neither does, "I was only going three over, not ten over".

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