My question involves a speeding ticket from the State of: California
Driving home this evening, I was unexpectedly pulled over. Quite honestly when I saw the lights I wasn't sure what it was going to be for as I didn't think I was doing anything to constitute being pulled over at the time.
I was cited by the officer (not a CHP) with CVC 22350 with an approximate speed of 60 in a 50 mile an hour zone. When cited, the weather was clear as it has been for several weeks here and it was 9:30 at night so traffic was minimal on the 6 lane secondary road (which is also a highway overpass). The officer told me he paced me at 60mph on his speedometer as evidence, and did not have radar or laser evidence.
He told me the reason he cited me with 22350 was because sprinklers (that were on the city owned median) were, in part, watering the road causing some wet spots thus making driving conditions unsafe.
Does this make sense?
The section says it applies to weather, visibility, the traffic and the surface and width of, the highway. To me, poorly aimed sprinklers do not qualify under any of those categories and quite honestly sounds like the city is solely liable for causing the unsafe conditions.
Also, the location of the citation is specifically marked Road 1 & Road 2. To me, this means that there were sprinklers in the middle of the intersection. However, after checking on Google maps, the first place after this intersection where there are sprinklers spraying on to the road are just over 500 feet past this intersection. Is the location provided specific enough?
I would gladly accept the fact that I was wrong if I was doing 70 or 80 and was cited with an actual speeding violation and head to traffic school, but being cited with 22350 and with the sprinklers as the reason, things don't seem to add up with this particular citation and what I was charged with.
How should I proceed with this?
EDIT: The officer also wrote in the Comments (Weather, Road, and Traffic Conditions) field the following: C. D. M.

