Fighting Tickets in Alberta
May 25th, 2004On the day of my last exam in the spring semester, I raced home from the university so happy to finally be done for summer. I raced home at 105 km per hour according to the photo-radar bastards, exactly 15 km an hour over the posted limit. Now they want me to pay a cool $90 but I’m thinking of asking for a reduction. Gary shares his ticket fighting strategies and unless I’ll lose more money from not working that day, I’ll probably take his advice.
Update: I never got the reduction because I waited too long to act on it.
May 26th, 2004 at 8:21 am
Opps, I deleted my previous comment. What I wanted to say was: Go on a day when you are not working. The date shown on the ticket is the last day you have to go in. If the office is open you can go any old day you want. This makes it much easier for people to take part in the legal system by giving them time to trade shifts or come in on a regular day off. If you work in the afternoon, go first thing in the morning, and you’ll be done by 9:30.
It’s totally worth it.
February 5th, 2006 at 9:06 pm
hi i got a failing to stop at a stop sign ticket last night and i live in edmonton. the thing that threw me off was that the cop didnt pull me over for like 5 or 6 blocks later any advice for fighting this ticket
February 6th, 2006 at 10:01 am
I’ve never actually tried to get a ticket reduced, but the way I understand it, you just go down to the courthouse sometime before the date on the ticket and they will give you instructions as to how to ask for a reduction. Being sincere and saying something like I’m currently a student and not working may help too - if, of course, you are a student.
June 7th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
This past may long weekend was great all ecept for the fact that I and the rest of my friends that drove out to Robb (a small town by Edson) all got photo radar tickits in the mail from the city of Edson. we are not from Edson, all of us living in the Edmonton area. We all got the tickets from the same camera at around the same time. It is to my opinion that they did not have enugh sinage to indicate speed limit or the fact that the speed limit was photo enforced. I was wondering If I could use that as a defence if I decide to try and contest the ticket in court.