Originally Posted by UPS6009
Being that you were pulled over by probably a highway patrol RCMP member, do you really thing he filled out the ticket wrong. All that member does each day is.. write tickets. You sped, and broke the law, fess up and pay the consequence. That big number on the sigh does not say "Anywhere in the neighborhood of 90 Km/h"
Radar or not RCMP members are trained in vehicle speed estimation and they're word and judgment holds up in court. Luckily he reduced the fine which is why no speed was written on the ticket.
every single person makes mistakes on the job sometime. If the transport you were trying to pass was impeeding your ability to do so, you could argue "necessity" as a defence. IMHO the best place to argue these types of minor tickets (in alberta they are called type 1 and type 2 provinical statue tickets) is to saunter down to the handy dany crown procescutors office and show them the ticket is incomplete, your driving history is clean for the last 18 years, your were passing another vehicle at the time, hardship on thefine, and any other type of sob story you can come up with. If there is even the slightest chance that they can not get a conviction, it is easy for the Crown to withdraw the charge administratively and it saves the system a lot of money in the mean time, that's their incentive (think of it as your own little plea bargin). Once you show up to fight it in court, and the RCMP is on overtime, and the judge is there, and it's on the record, the Crown is going fight to make sure you pay. It's all about saving face and saving court time and money, the particulars as you describe them sound like an easy compromise with the crown if you approach with the right attitude before it gets to court.