Speeding Tickets Issued By Airplane
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Speeding Tickets Issued By Airplane
My name is David Haenel and I’m one of the attorney’s at Finebloom and Haenel. I spend every single week in traffic court across the State of Florida. My sole job is to represent people on criminal and traffic ticket cases. My office gets more calls about the Aircraft Speed Enforcement Program in Florida than anything else. Let me explain to you how this process works.
The State of Florida is broken into troops. Each troop has their own sergeant pilot who operates a fixed-wing aircraft. That pilot is trained to clock cars. That is all they do all day. Let me explain to you how this process works. There are a series of white lines, you notice them as you travel across the State of Florida typically on the Interstate. As your vehicle crosses that first white line the pilot will start his stopwatch. As you crossover the second line, one-quarter mile distance, he will stop the watch. He will then, based on the calculations built in to the stopwatch, determine what your speed was and the distance you had to travel. He will then call down to a Trooper on the ground, who will then pull you over. He will issue a citation for unlawful speed.
Many times motorists will call my office, in fact on a daily basis, and say ‘I saw the Trooper on the side of the road’. He probably clocked you a mile to two miles back down the road. By the time you see the Trooper on the side of the road you are already clocked.
The question now becomes are there possible legal defenses? The answer is absolutely yes. I fight these tickets daily across the state. They have to be able to identify you as the driver, that’s why they need the Trooper in court who actually pulled you over and they need the Trooper in the air, the one who was flying the plane. He needs to bring certain documentation to establish the reliability of the stopwatches.
Give my office a call at 1-800-FIGHT-IT. That’s 1-800-344-4848. We’ll review your driving record, we’ll review the facts of your particular case, we’ll explore any possible legal defenses as result of a possible issues on the citation. We’ll do everything we can to get the ticket dismissed or keep the points off your license.
Give me a call, I am here to help you.