and the cop said, and wrote on the ticket that id get notice in the mail.

never happened.

should i give up getting the mail everyday before the parents? haha

what should i do?

 

they have 30 days to notify you by mail.. if its past that time, then the ticket is void because they failed to follow due process

 

cool

its been about 2 and a half months

im free

 

i would check up on it because my friend got a red light ticket in san franisco where they tooked the picture of thier plate but he never got a ticket and the ticket was 300+ and going to suspend his licence. but he went to court and explaned and got the ticket to 130 bucks.

 

on tickets there is an appear in court date, if you fail to follow that date, regardless of what is sent in the mail, or not sent int he mail for that matter, it is considered failure to appear if I am not mistaken

-Zoeb

 

believe this, and nothing else.

 

it said on the ticket "notified by mail" or something like that.

there was no date on it besides the date of the incident.

 

plus they havent come looking for me yet, so oh well.

 

all of my tickets say on the bottom the date... its better to talk to a judge about it than to get a failure to appear.

 

i recently got two speeding tickets and was in court a month ago. take it from me, although your ticket doesn't say a court appearance date and they haven't sent you a mail notification about it, it is still YOUR responsibility to appear and pay the fine.

a few things might happen:

1.) judge puts a failure to appear in court in your record and fine you from $1000-$10000 or a possible trip to jail.

2.) unpaid fine will accumulate over months and your 200 dollar ticket will stack up into a 1000 dollar ticket.

3.) failure to pay the fine, you get a permanent point in your license. hence your insurance company and DMV will be notified.

4.) you'll miss out on traffic school. the points will stay on your record for 3 years!

5.) get your car towed when the next time you get pulled over when they check that you have an outstanding ticket and that failure to appear.

hope that helps.

spidey

 

the judge threw out my FTA on the grounds that i wasn't properly notified, and acted on the FTA as soon as i was notified. so my $300 ticket was dropped to $10 (it was a fix it ticket).

 

so what im getting is, if i do get the FTA, ill just inform the judge i never got anything about it?

i mean, couldnt the cop have not turned in the ticket?

 

This isn't a correct statement. I thought the same and for a while, I thought I was in the clear because I never received any notice in the mail. To my surprise, the ticket became a warrant. And when it came time to renew my DL, they told me I couldn't because I have a warrant out on me. And I explained to the cleck at DMV that I never received any notice in the mail and she said that the ticket hadf a court date (which it did) and that I should have followed that because it is not their job to notify everyone. They notify you out of courtesy. So if I were you, I'd call the courts...

~joe

 

right, if u have ever gotten one of those notices before u would note that it says "courtesy notice" on the top.

 

i guess id better find the ticket and see what it says