TexasCHLforum.com

...to the San Antonio police officer who pulled me over for speeding. Coming back from having the vehicle serviced in preparation for a trip down to South Padre, exited the freeway and was just moving along on the access road listening to the radio and thinking about preparations for the trip. Guess I was what we used to call "velocitized" from traveling at highway speed. Saw the flashing lights in the mirror and moved over into the other lane hoping they'd just go by but no such luck. Pulled over, opened the window and put the hands on the wheel in plain sight. Handed over both DL and CHL when asked, then waited while she went back to her vehicle. Hoping for a warning, no tickets or accidents in years but again, no such luck. 61mph in a 50mph zone. Ticket is gonna run me $176.10 so might not be going to the next gun show or two The officer never asked me if I was armed, overall the whole thing went very smoothly. First ticket in almost 20 years. Nuts

Take the defensive driving course. Won't have to pay the ticket plus instead of your insurance prem. going up you will get a break. Good Luck Glad to hear it was a good LEO encounter.

seniorshooteress wrote:Won't have to pay the ticket plus instead of your insurance prem

I would say you are 1/2 correct.
While you do not technically have to pay for the ticket, it seems that the costs to take defensive driving and the costs you still have to pay to the municipality always seem to about cost the same as the ticket cost.
you are correct though on the insurance part, and if you do take DD, and can get your DD instructor (unless online) to give you 2 copies, you can turn 1 in for the ticket and 1 to your insurance for an insurance premium deduction (at least my insurance gives discounts for DD)

Or just do deffered adjudication. Costs the same as the fees + cost of the course and you do not have to do the course.

X 2 on the deferred adjudication

Outbreaker wrote:Or just do deffered adjudication. Costs the same as the fees + cost of the course and you do not have to do the course.

I've never heard of that for a speeding ticket.

How does that work?
Are you on some sort of probation period in which once completed
with no additional infractions, the ticket is dismissed or removed?

Pretty much, I did that for a 45 over ticket. Because I didn't get another ticket within a few months it was dismissed.

Sometimes it's just a local probation period, so if you don't get ticketed again in X city within the next 4 - 6 months or so you'll have it dismissed.

Fangs wrote:Pretty much, I did that for a 45 over ticket. Because I didn't get another ticket within a few months it was dismissed.

Sometimes it's just a local probation period, so if you don't get ticketed again in X city within the next 4 - 6 months or so you'll have it dismissed.

Thanks Fangs. I learned something today.

Fangs wrote:Pretty much, I did that for a 45 over ticket. Because I didn't get another ticket within a few months it was dismissed.

Sometimes it's just a local probation period, so if you don't get ticketed again in X city within the next 4 - 6 months or so you'll have it dismissed.

My wife did this with a ticket she got in New Braunfels. She was still within the one-year period from a previous DD course for a ticket she got in Seguin, so she got DA with a probationary period in New Braunfels. She doesn't drive so fast anymore.

This is why I like this site, so much good advice on different topics. Already thinking about DD course, just gonna have to find time to fit it in or do it online if that's still available (I know my wife did that some years ago). Overall, just ticked at myself for letting my mind wander and getting my first ticket in a long time. And the nerves were sure going wondering how the LEO was going to handle the CHL situation. I've heard stories of good encounters and bad, just glad mine was one of the good ones. Thanks everybody!

81aggie wrote:Already thinking about DD course, just gonna have to find time to fit it in or do it online if that's still available

It is but DO NOT, under ANY circumstances, be fooled into thinking that the online "Comedy Defensive Driving" has anything approaching "comedy" in it. I would rather sit in a fire-ant mound at a 10 hour classroom version of the class than go through that torturous experience again. Ugh! The plain old bland regular version covers the material better, and there the comedy is unintentional, but much better than the cringe-worthy Christopher Walken impersonator I had to sit through.

You may check with your insurance company first. Many of them are getting wise to the backwards idea of discounting ones insurance for getting a speeding ticket (given thats really the only reason someone would take a defensive driving class). Its a good idea to take it to keep the ticket off your record anyway.

Fangs:

You got deferred adjudication for a "45 over" ticket?? Wow.

Buy me a lottery ticket, will you? :-)

45 over is a "handcuffs" rather than "ticket" violation, as I
understand it.

Luckily another guy got the ticket (no radar detector in his F-150)
when we were both rolling about 110 MPH east of Mexia, TX
on US 84. A DPS trooper snagged him.

SIA

""You got deferred adjudication for a "45 over" ticket?? Wow.""

But with or without a lawyer?

surprise_i'm_armed wrote: 45 over is a "handcuffs" rather than "ticket" violation, as I
understand it.

I HIGHLY doubt it. It would be a featherleg arrest IMO. You CANNOT be arrested for speeding or open container in Texas. The officer would have to prove reckless driving. There would have to be other people that were on the road and clearly in danger due to the driving of the subject.

Easily fought in court.