I too only have about 5 in my lifetime but I have always taken defensive driving to keep them off my record. Curious why you went the lawyer route…
The rules are set locally. Not always possible to expunge record by taking class, hence attorneys.
OK yours is a joke. But how about: police car with flashing lights following car of criminals on a high speed chase through Swiss cities. Criminals are arrested but policemen are taken to court for speeding during the chase (caught by speed cameras). This is not a joke. Happened multiple times here in Switzerland.
So anyone driving with a mask on, with fake license plates, can essentially do whatever they want because the police will never chase them above speed limit and with no way to ID them from cameras there is no way to catch them?
Fake news. Read the law.
I wish this was also the case in the UK - here you (or the company owning the car) are legally obligated to provide driver information relating speed camera fines and most of the time will get points.
It’s applied case by case. In general the police *can* chase above speed limit yes, but there’s a weird law prescription by which the police on a chase (“courses urgentes”) need to keep into account all the circumstances and determine and apply a level of caution proportional to the situation. (arrêt 6B_755/2020 du 3 novembre 2020) .
Many US locations have the similar laws. Only in very rare situations does it make sense to engage in a high speed car chase. They frequently end in death, severe injuries, and heavy property damage, and often to innocent people who were not involved. In today’s age of cameras, helicopters and other means to investigate, there are often smarter ways to accomplish an arrest. So it has to be life and death situation to chase and create another life and death situation.
If your boss provides your name as the person driving the company vehicle which got photographed speeding, is the burden of proof is on you to prove if it wasn't you? Say you prove it wasn't you because you had a solid alibi, but your boss says their records say it was you, Does the ticket get thrown out?
Read the numbers reported by the police. Perhaps the police and the people who run from the police lack your depth of understanding of the law. For example:
There are laws which govern high speed chases in the US as well, intended to safeguard the general public. A lot of them make sense. However, the more recent laws that were added had to do with political police reform movements such as require the police remove themselves from situations where the suspect might have mental health issues, protect against targeting minorities, etc. The laws were written badly and very ambiguously, but attached personal liability for officers who might violate them, so the police went back to legislature to clarify but they won't, therefore the police were forced to interpret them as generally as possible to avoid liability.
To be fair, the numbers are current numbers and they don’t appear to have any historical data to compare against.
