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Originally Posted by Banshee
LEO of 26 years (1988)
If you are innocent of the issue...and believe you are, why are you asking people who weren't there their opinion?
If you were speeding...whatever you were doing....YOU were there. Unless you have a Go Pro with 4 angles with telemetry, whats the point in asking OUR opinions? ONLY you know what you were doing...by listing all those mods to your cas (presumably as an excuse for your driving) makes me feel you are looking for a reason or excuse for what the officer observed.
Seriously...
What the hell do the damn mods to your car have to do with anything the officer observed?
Excuses...
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Because its his word vs the officer's and there are no other witnesses especially an unbiased 3rd party witness but yeah MAYBE we should have a LAW introduced to require automakers install dashcams in consumer vehicles like they do in some countries so that situations like this can be refuted by the truth rather than what the officer really wants to have happen.
But two questions come to mind for the OP:
1. was the officer actively using a radar gun? If so, he doesn't need to pace you; I don't know much about using a radar gun while in active traffic but out on the side (on the shoulder) sure why not? (and mind you; there's also two lanes of traffic, getting the wrong person has happened before). But you also said that he was in traffic in the adjacent lane so using a radar gun would be unlikely but not impossible?
2. WERE YOU actually speeding? What's the posted speed limit for the off ramp? I've seen off ramps have 2 different speeds; yellow sign with a number indicating a speed is NOT compulsory in many states (note I didn't say ALL) WHITE sign with black numbers indicating speed IS COMPULSORY so there may have been a sign as soon as you got off the exit (like many in Oregon do) and then further down just before you reach the intersection a new sign will appear indicating the speed limit before entering the intersection.
25 mph doesn't seem out of the ordinary for off ramp speeds when approaching an intersection unless say 20-15 mph were posted? But you also pointed that you were going 15 mph over so that would make the off ramp speed limit 10mph???? I don't think so; 25+15=40 I wonder if that's the case?
In any case; we're not lawyers but some say you should try to fight it. I'd say at least research it, I don't usually fight my tickets unless its blatantly wrong.