The Hard Facts On How To Get Out Of A Traffic Ticket

Traffic ticket victims remind me of the old Bill Cosby skit. You know the one I’m talking about, where the kids are running around the house acting like a bunch of lunatics knocking stuff over until finally the mother comes down and screams “I have had enough of this!” And the kids look at her with this look of shock like, “What did I do?” Well, that’s what traffic offenders are like. They know they screwed up, but they plead innocence.

Okay, here are the cold hard facts about how to get out of a traffic ticket. Trickery doesn’t work and either does claiming innocence or ignorance or whatever you want to call it. The tactics you need to use are more subtle and more effective if you use them correctly. Let’s start with when you’re approached for the offense initially.

You’ve run a red light, the cop pulls you over and he says to you, “License and registration”. As you look for it in your glove compartment, you say to the officer. “I ran a red light. I know.” And don’t say anything else. Hand him your credentials and just sit there looking upset, but not with him. Nine times out of ten, the officer is going to initiate a conversation.

He’ll start with a simple question. “If you know you ran a red light, why did you?” Here is what you tell him. “I didn’t see it until it was too late to stop and I was afraid if I did I would cause an accident. I saw nobody was coming in either direction so I kept going.” Say this calmly and with conviction. You have to sound like you mean it.

You will find, a good part of the time, that the cop will let you off with a warning if you just sit there, accept your fate and say nothing else. The key is to let him initiate the conversation. Don’t start out by trying to defend yourself. It doesn’t work. Let him feel that he is in complete control.

This is just one method that works quite often. In my signature, you’ll find a review of a great resource that will give you quite a few methods for getting out of traffic tickets, even the ones that you’ve gotten, that work quite well. The key is not making stupid excuses. You do that, and you’ll be just fine.

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