Anyone ever heard of..

[bumpinne0n 10+ year member]

..having to go to court for a failure to yield r/w ticket? A few weeks ago I was in a minor accident. I was sitting at a light waiting to turn and I thought this other car was turning, but she wasn't. I went ahead and turned and she hit me. It didn't hurt the truck I was driving but she had some minor damage on her car. We had her car fixed in less than a week and returned it to her.

The court date on the ticket is for next week sometime, so I called today to see how much it was gonna cost. The woman I talked to told me she couldn't find the ticket in the system so I had to explain what it was for. She told me it was a mandatory court appearance. This really doesn't make sense to me. No one was injured in the wreck and I don't have any tickets on my record other then a seatbelt ticket, which I was told won't add points to your license. I don't have anything to prove -- I'm guilty and I know it and so does the cop that wrote the ticket. It just doesn't make sense to me that I have to go to court, miss school and drive 30+ miles to get there for a ticket that I know there's no way of me getting out of it. Any ideas as to why it's mandatory?

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[2loud4u 10+ year member]

Dont go they will just find you guilty and issue a warrant

 

[Idealrealist 10+ year member]

I had to go to court for pretty much the same thing.

 

[bumpinne0n 10+ year member]

Dont go they will just find you guilty and issue a warrant

Yeah that's all I need.

I had to go to court for pretty much the same thing.

Damn. I was thinking about calling back tomorrow to see if she made a mistake. I'm gonna feel like a dumbass because I'm just gonna be agreeing with whatever they say. Is this like a speeding ticket where if the cop doesn't show up it gets thrown out? My parents have had them thrown out before because the cop never showed..

 

[Idealrealist 10+ year member]

Yeah that's all I need.


Damn. I was thinking about calling back tomorrow to see if she made a mistake. I'm gonna feel like a dumbass because I'm just gonna be agreeing with whatever they say. Is this like a speeding ticket where if the cop doesn't show up it gets thrown out? My parents have had them thrown out before because the cop never showed..

Come to think of it that was another ticket I had not the one like yours. I just paid the ticket and went on my way, no court date.

 

[yne721 10+ year member]

my failure to yield ticket was $110.

my advice, show up in court, say you can afford the ticket but not the points, and give them some bullshit about how this confined incident doesn't reflect your driving habits.

everytime I do that, they drop the points. really all they care about is the money anyway.

and IIRC if the cop doesn't show for ANY traffic violation it gets waived... so you could get lucky.

but yeah, just ask for no points and pay the $110 or whatever it is and be on your way.

 

[John3000 10+ year member]

Shouldnt be mandatory, call back again and ask. As far as court NOLO