Arizona Highway Patrol

[mprincess]

Please help me out here! I received a speeding ticket 82 in a 65 zone. When I stopped the officer reached into my car, rifled through my glove box and took out what appeared to be my registration. The ticket was handed to me after the officer asked if my address was correct on my drivers license. I explained the correct address is on the registration. He corrected the info on the ticket, but today I looked at the ticket again and he had grabbed the wrong registration it was for my old car a 2000 KIA Sportage which I traded it in last year. The ticket shows KIA as make of my car, not Hyundai and Sonata as the model, which IS correct, but the year is actually 2004 not 2000 and the VIN is for the KIA, not for my Sonata. Here's the question, is this ticket even legal now? The officer didn't have my permission to go through my glove box, as it was he didn't even get the right form, and now most of the info on the ticket is for a car I wasn't driving at the time of the ticket and no longer am in possession of. Should I just pay to go to traffic court or do I stand a chance of having this dismissed?
Thank you for your help!
Mprincess

 

[mightymoose]

Is the license plate on the ticket correct?

police are human and make simple mistakes like this... it might embarrass him in court, but won't necessarily void the ticket. If the license plate is correct then they will quickly figure out the mistake.

You can make the appearance in court, and if the citation is not tossed you can ask the judge if you can attend traffic school. If you take traffic school off the bat and just pay the fine then you have zero chance of beating it.

I don't think the error will be enough though. The officer gave YOU the ticket, not the car, and YOUR info is likely correct. It just wouldn't be too convincing to argue that since you were doing 82 in a different vehicle the cittaion should be dismissed... but ya never know.