Legal Question in Traffic Law in Pennsylvania

Re: Speeding Ticket question

Cops can do about anything they want when pacing traffic with a speed timing device. Specifically, the PA Code establishes what the police can and cannot do. How did the cop time your speed, vascar, vehicle speedometer, stop-watch, laser or radar?? The manner the cop used determines what the specific requirements are to support a conviction at a hearing later on. Driver's can challenge the accuracy/calibration of the instrument used, etc...

The ability to observe the Driver's vehicle is crucial to the operation of most speed timing devices. Also, a driver, when fighting a speeding ticket, should return to the area to determine the posted speed limit as well as the posted speed limit a mile or two before the observed area. The PA Code requires that Boroughs & Township provide drivers notice of a change in speed limits. Remember, all siezures must be "reasonable" or they will violate the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution as Article 2 Section 9 of this great Commonwealth's Constitution.