My question involves a traffic ticket from the state of: California
I received a notice to appear from a policeman last night in my local town. There was very heavy traffic, due to a tree lighting event.
I was travelling southbound on the main street at the main intersection, which has a crosswalk on the southside of the intersection. The light was green when I entered the intersection and proceeded across on green. When I crossed the crosswalk on the opposite side of the intersection, the car in front of me stopped short, so rather than rear ending them, I stopped. My front tires were outside of the crosswalk (and according to my daughter who witnessed), my rear tires were still slightly in the cross walk, but enough so that people could pass behind my car.
At the point I was stopped, I had no visibility to the traffic signal, which was directly above the cross walk (now behind my head from the driving position).
When the car in front started going, I proceeded forward. Soon after, flashing lights in my rear, and the policeman asking me to pull aside.
He ask me if I knew why he stopped me. I said no. He asked me what color was the light, I said green when I went across the intersection. And then he proceeded to issue the ticket.
I want to turn up to court to defend myself, on the basis that:
1) when I entered the intersection, the light was green.
2) I was forced to stop partly inside the cross-walk by the car in front
3) when the signal turned red, I had no visibility to the signal.
4) Furthermore, there are several technical errors on the notice a)- He wrote the wrong car model. Correct make, but incorrect model; b)-he said traffic was medium (it was heavy), and c)-he said speed approx was gtr > 5, and there was no way it was greater than 5, since at the time the light was red and i moved, I was going super-slow.
My daughter can come and testify to all of the above.
Does this seem like a reasonable defense?
Any suggestions?
I received a notice to appear from a policeman last night in my local town. There was very heavy traffic, due to a tree lighting event.
I was travelling southbound on the main street at the main intersection, which has a crosswalk on the southside of the intersection. The light was green when I entered the intersection and proceeded across on green. When I crossed the crosswalk on the opposite side of the intersection, the car in front of me stopped short, so rather than rear ending them, I stopped. My front tires were outside of the crosswalk (and according to my daughter who witnessed), my rear tires were still slightly in the cross walk, but enough so that people could pass behind my car.
At the point I was stopped, I had no visibility to the traffic signal, which was directly above the cross walk (now behind my head from the driving position).
When the car in front started going, I proceeded forward. Soon after, flashing lights in my rear, and the policeman asking me to pull aside.
He ask me if I knew why he stopped me. I said no. He asked me what color was the light, I said green when I went across the intersection. And then he proceeded to issue the ticket.
I want to turn up to court to defend myself, on the basis that:
1) when I entered the intersection, the light was green.
2) I was forced to stop partly inside the cross-walk by the car in front
3) when the signal turned red, I had no visibility to the signal.
4) Furthermore, there are several technical errors on the notice a)- He wrote the wrong car model. Correct make, but incorrect model; b)-he said traffic was medium (it was heavy), and c)-he said speed approx was gtr > 5, and there was no way it was greater than 5, since at the time the light was red and i moved, I was going super-slow.
My daughter can come and testify to all of the above.
Does this seem like a reasonable defense?
Any suggestions?
Traffic Lights, Signs and Controls: 21453(A) Red or Stop Vehicles Stop at Limit Line or X-Walk
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