cited for illegal lane change

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vladmire

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I was involved in a accident with a semi-truck. I was on a 6 lane highway. I turned on my right turn signal looked in my mirrors and proceeded to merge into the right hand lane as I got into the lane I noticed a semi- with trailer coming from the opposite side of the road. I blew my horn,braked and tried to move as far to left of the lane as possible there was no way to get into the left lane due to a Cadillac Escalade being in the left hand lane. The trucker keep come til he knocked off my right side mirror and scatched up my front passenger fender and door. He proceeded to keep driving for several miles over 30mins. later I got him to pull over after I honked waved got in front and slowed down. I called my insurance and gave them the info. Filed a police report the cop citied us both. he wondered why we were in a totally different county then where it happened. He also wrote the wrong date on the citation. My insurance wants a taped conversation of what happened should I do it? I think the deductable will be more than the price for me to fix the damages. What should I do. Do I have to file a claim. I'm going to court to plead not guility, do I have a chance of getting the citation dropped.
Any help would be appreciated
 
The officer did not see the accident and cannot testify to what actually happened. Enter a plea of not guilty or go to court and talk to the officer and see if he will dismiss the citation.

The damage is probably less than your deductible. Your main problem is that your state may list it as an at fault accident and this will hurt your insurance just as much as the ticket. You may want to talk to the DMV to see if it can be changed to just an accident.

If you don't cooperate with your insurance company they will probably drop you.
 
Improper lane change

I wrote that it says illegal lane change it says improper and it has the wrong date on the citation. Is there anyway to get out of the ticket I will plead not guility, but do I have to file a claim right now or can I wait to see if I can get the citation dropped. By going to traffic school or somethin
 
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