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>I have an appointment (mandatory court appearance for "Failure to Give Full
>Time and Attention) this Thursday at the Fairfax County Court.
>
>Does anyone have any experience and suggestions for protesting the ticket
and
>hopefully reducing the points and/or fine?
>
>Help?
>
If this is your first court appearance on this charge, its going to be
continued if you plead Not Guilty. Which you should do. The officer will
have the witness(the other driver) subpoenaed for the next court date,
hopefully either the witness or the officer won't show up next time. The
judge will dismiss the case then. Responsibility is on the following driver
to be prepared to stop, this time it was a goose, next time maybe a kid that
the car ahead is stopping for. So don't use the defense that it was illegal
for the other car to stop. Bring a diagram, pictures of the sight at the
time of the accident, showing amount of traffic, signs, sunlight, etc. Ask
the other driver and officer questions, anything -maybe they'll make a
mistake. Best bet is to have your insurance company fix the other car before
the next court date-most time they won't show up since their car is
repaired, if they were injured they prob will still show up.
Couple other things, officers are not required to write a ticket at
accidents, they may tell you that. Get to court early, parking is a mess and
it will stress you out more. Good Luck, hope you get this in time.