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When people get speeding tickets, they immediately panic and contact their lawyers to defend them in court. The truth is, statistics show that nine out of ten traffic violation cases would have been better resolved if the people given the tickets only defended themselves in court. This means that once you know your rights, you can effectively defend yourself in court. Speeding ticket defense is easy to learn, and this article provides you with some of the basic information you need to know.

The first thing you must remember is that the court is your friend – and you should treat it as such. Once you are given a speeding ticket, a case against you is automatically up for trial. To make a good name and reputation, try calling the clerk often and call him or her by his or her first name. Your purpose is to get updated on any news as regards your trial, specifically deadlines and other important dates. When the clerk becomes a friend, try asking for continuances, which are basically delays for your trial, as often as you can. This is because when you are out of the memory of the police officer who gave you the speeding ticket, you’ll have a better chance at not getting a conviction. In some cases, too many delays finally led to dismissals of the cases in view of the police officers being transferred. This only proves that sometimes, you don’t even have to start on your speeding ticket defense; you just need to be polite and friendly enough.

Another thing you can do as an early speeding ticket defense before your trial actually starts is to ask for alternative punishment. Having tickets in your record can hurt your insurance. Since it is the clerk that has the authority to keep the speeding ticket off your record, ask him or her to let you go to driving school instead. Sure, you’re going to have to pay court expenses, not to mention for the ticket itself, but at least the premiums on your insurance won’t go up. That certainly saves you more money.

If all of your pleading fails, it’s time to accept that you are indeed going to trial. Your best speeding ticket defense, according to some speeding violators who won their cases, is to appear in court on the time and date of your trial. Do not skip it just because you are afraid; in some cases, the accused in a traffic violation automatically wins the case because the police officer fails to show up. What you are facing is only a misdemeanor case, and if you did not admit to your guilt when the police officer stopped you for supposedly speeding, then you’ve got nothing to worry about. You can plead not guilty again during your hearing, and can finally plead your case during your trial. Remember to stay cool-headed and respectful towards the judge (or jury, if you wish) and, most importantly, find out about your rights before you go to court.

Of course, the most efficient speeding ticket defense you can employ to stay away from traffic cases is to avoid speeding at all cost when you’re out on the road. If you did commit the speeding you are accused of, learn your lesson from your first mistake so you won’t be making the same one ever again.

Fighting a speeding ticket comes in heaps of stratagems. If you desire of getting out of your subsequent over speeding ticket, a religious adherence of these lines of tactics should be warily determined.

Fighting a speeding ticket can be thwarted if a police officer is not able to secure your speed in their records as well as in their radar. The inability of the police officer to do this would mean unbound and void offense since an officer cannot issue a ticket without further evidence. Thus, when an officer happens to pull your car over, it is vital that you search for the radar used together with the speed.

Fighting a speeding ticket can also be done by means of resigning yourself to any forms of guilt. Unconsciously, people tend to set themselves in a situation where they somehow say yes to a question they do not intend to utter. If an officer exclaimed, ‘You were speeding’; an immediate reply of ‘Yes, a little bit’ is also a means of saying ‘Yes, I am guilty’. This should not be the case; remember to be extra cautious of how you answer to an officer’s queries. Unthought-of answers oftentimes lead to further offenses and might pave the way for further violations. What to do in this kind of situation? The situation can be simply reverted like this: An officer exclaimed, ‘You were over speeding’, your reply can be ‘I’m sorry officer but I think I’m just in the right phase and speed’. This answer somehow gives the officer the gut feeling that you are either saying the truth or just making excuses. Therefore, a convincing statement would help you get out of a possible speeding ticket.

Another way of fighting a speeding ticket can also be done by means of responding positively and respectfully to any queries an officer might ask. Hot tempered drivers mostly end up not taking the table to their advantage rather incur further violations as the conversation progresses. With this, you need to be weary of every words and statements to be exclaimed the moment you come face to face with an officer. Keep in mind that officers are given discretion by their superiors and any form of rudeness can immediately resort to auxiliary charges.

Once you’ve been pulled over by an officer, the first thing that comes to mind is, ‘there will be no way out here’. Nevertheless, there are still ways of fighting a speeding ticket even if it entails going to court. If you can formulate continuances to interrupt the hearing then you can do so. If luck permits, failure of an officer to come out and be present during the hearing can mean greater advantage on your part.

Fighting a speeding ticket can also mean being watchful of the rules and regulations set while on the road. It could also be of great help to look at the points left on your license. At times, a mere point left can be a positive drive towards being more alert and watchful while steering your wheels.

A recent visitor to my site inquiring about speed reading asked, “How can I move away from actually saying the words, and learn how to identify the symbols?” The question demonstrates a knowledge of one of the difficult habits to overcome in learning to speed read – sub-vocalization. Sub-vocalization is seeing the words, then saying the words in your mind, then hearing the words, and finally understanding them. It is a four step process. Reading is defined as getting meaning from printed materials – seeing them, and creating understanding. Theoretically, reading should be only two steps. This article will give 7 tips to overcome and transform this process.

Sub-vocalization is heralded by most uninformed pundits as the primary block to slow reading. It is a difficult habit to overcome. Too often speed reading learners get too hung up in the beginning because they become so focused on this habit. It is a problem for speed reading depending on how you define speed reading. If someone currently reads at 250 wpm (words per minute), and then learns to read at 500 wpm, is that speed reading? If so, that is still a speed in which the spoken word can still be understood, but it is below the visual reading threshold which occurs at about 600 wpm. From my experience of using and training tens of thousands of learners, speed

reading occurs much faster than that.

Tip One – Get physical – learn to move the eyes more rapidly and fluidly over the print. All speed reading programs cover some sort of physical eye training. Unfortunately, most programs stop with the physical training, and that is one reason why speed reading programs often get negative reviews. Keep in mind the eyes are the mechanics in reading. Learning to move the eyes more fluidly and getting them unstuck from focusing on single words and phrases is very important to getting the mind to respond faster. You do need to see the words faster. But in the early stages, this can be unsettling. Know that you are making dramatic changes to your perceptual processing of

the material and stay focused and disciplined.

Tip Two: Since sub-vocalization occurs below 600 wpm, increase your rates far beyond that. In fact, you should consistently move at least twice that speed. Breaking sub-vocalization by fast practice is useful in stimulating the brain’s nervous system in a way that is similar to driving a car. You might feel comfortable driving at 30 miles per hour.

Then you drive on the freeway. As you accelerate, you focus on controlling the car as you ramp up to 70 mph. After a couple hours you exit the freeway and slow back down 30 mph. It feels very, very slow. Training your eyes and brain to focus and understand at accelerated rates follows a similar principle.

Tip Three: Think about what you are seeing. After all, reading is a thinking skill. As your eyes are passing over all the words, think about what the material is about. Do not focus on saying to yourself, “Stop Sub-vocalizing!” Paying attention to your sub-vocalization and telling yourself to stop only interferes with any comprehension. Your mind will be thinking about the sub-vocalization, not the material.

Tip Four: Use multiple rapid exposures to the material. The brain has an incredible capacity to recognize patterns and relationships of visual symbols at extremely high rates. Seeing something very fast more than once leads to recognition and then comprehension.

Tip Five: Ask questions of the material as you pass over it. Questions have a powerful impact on the mind. Questions seek answers. Allow your mind to start stringing things together. Use any clues you get to start forming a mental picture of the material.

Tip Six: Monitor your thinking. If your mind is not responding to the material below, or in front of your eyes, notice what you are thinking about, and then bring it back to the material. Constantly ask yourself, “What is this about?” When you speed up the eyes moving over the material, the mind will naturally become more engaged until you get to an overload point. When that happens, combine the above tips. The experienced speed reader can read in almost any environment with precision concentration. He/she has full control of the mind’s focus.

Tip Seven: Practice, practice, and practice some more. Overcoming sub-vocalization is a tough habit to beat. Your old ways will easily slip back until you remind yourself to behave in new ways. Don’t “practice” in materials that are important for you fully understand and retain. Comprehension and retention are a separate part of the process. Use materials that are interesting to you, but you don’t need to master. You can work on comprehension and recall after you’ve reached a level of some comfort with the basic mechanics.

Overcoming sub-vocalization is only part of the process. There are other strategies and tactics in learning speed reading, such as the comprehension process and building memory and recall. All the above tips should be done together. However, the goal of overcoming sub-vocalization is not to quiet the mind. You do not want your mind to go to sleep. You want to replace sub-vocalization with your mind’s response to the print. A skilled speed reader’s mind is very active. It’s not sounding out the words verbatim in the order of the printed sentence, but rather, you are summarizing as you go.