I'll say. He got a ticket in the mail saying he was speeding on Chester Avenue at East 71st Street. He was cited for going 48 mph in a 35 mph zone.... Hatala brought the measuring device. Butler measured the location using markers from the pictures. He determined Hatala's real rate of speed.
"Dave Hatala was traveling 40.5 mph," Butler said.
He also found the real speed for that other car, too -- 48 mph.
Hatala brought the findings to court to challenge his ticket.
"Becomes pretty clear that it wasn't your vehicle that was speeding," the judge said.
But a REAL judge would have found him speeding regardless (40.5 in a 35 mph zone)
Nah, almost no jurisdiction will write tickets for that low of a speed difference. In fact, here in GA, only State Troopers can write one for less that 11 over. This is supposed to prevent towns from setting up cash cow speed traps for minor violations.
If the ticket is less 14 mph or less over the limit then it doesn't even go to your insurance. Of course that is GA and all states will vary.
Except that enforcement of the speed limit against this person would be arbitrary and capricious (especially since he would appear, based upon available data points, to have been travelling below the median speed of traffic).