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by daniel
Mon Mar 09, 2015 12:49 pm
Forum: Exceeding the speed limit by 30 to 49 km/h
Topic: 2 Officer Speed Trap - Heading to Court
Replies: 6
Views: 2657

Re: 2 Officer Speed Trap - Heading to Court

Visual observation tracking history: Before an officer can use lidar or radar, they're (theoretically) required to visually observe traffic to pick out someone who is speeding. Police officers are trained in determining the approximate speed of a vehicle by visual observation. Once they have an estimate that a vehicle is speeding, they can then ...
by daniel
Mon Mar 09, 2015 8:58 am
Forum: Exceeding the speed limit by 30 to 49 km/h
Topic: 2 Officer Speed Trap - Heading to Court
Replies: 6
Views: 2657

Re: 2 Officer Speed Trap - Heading to Court

Not really sure that will work, the officers will likely say that they radioed each other and that's it (which, they almost surely did).

Have you looked for any other issues, such as no indications of testing the speed measuring device, no tracking history (i.e. visual observation of the vehicle), etc?

Everything else looked good - device was ...
by daniel
Sun Mar 08, 2015 8:32 pm
Forum: Exceeding the speed limit by 30 to 49 km/h
Topic: 2 Officer Speed Trap - Heading to Court
Replies: 6
Views: 2657

2 Officer Speed Trap - Heading to Court

I have a court case in a few weeks now. I received the disclosure for my offence (31 over the speed limit on the 401).
The disclosure has notes from Officer 1 (with the lidar) and no notes at all from Officer 2 (the one who wrote the ticket).

I'm going to court to try my options, but I'm wondering if anyone has any advice about working with 2 ...