Should I fight it if I got stopped for speeding and received a traffic speeding ticket if I was on my way to the hospital emergency room
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Should I fight it if I got stopped for speeding and received a traffic speeding ticket if I was on my way to the hospital emergency room
I was doing 24 miles per hour over the
speed limit got stopped for speeding
received a ticket but I was on my way to
the emergency room cuz I fell down the
stairs
Asked on June 12, 2019 under General Practice, Ohio
Answers:
SJZ, Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 4 years ago | Contributor
It doesn't matter why you were speeding--it's still illegal. The law does not recognize going to the ER as grounds to legally speed. Furthermore, the judge would undoubtedly--and correctly--say "If you were hurt so bad that you had to get to the emergency room that quickly, you should not have been driving and should have called 911 or for an ambulence...and if you weren't hurt that bad, you should not have been speeding."
So you should not "fight" the ticket per se--you will lose if you plead not guilty and go to trial. But you should speak to the prosecution the day of trial, when you get there: if you have an otherwise clean driving record and explain the situation, it is likely that they will let you plead to a lower speed or lesser offense.
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