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its a catch all or umbrella ticket. there really isn't a true definition and i have gotten one before without it pertaining to an accident or the like.
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Yup. It's a great tool for when you have someone who commits more than one violation and rather than hammering out multiple tickets, you can just give the one that covers everything. In this instance, there's:
1. Speeding ("You were going a little fast there.") I know you don't believe you were speeding and that he would've just written you for it, but the latter is not necessarily the case.
2. Failure to keep right (Which is a simple way of saying cruising in the left lane) I know you don't believe this either as you were, by your account and perception, passing.
O.P., as I said earlier, fighting the actual violation assigned and actually winning: Chances are slim to none. Talking to the prosecutor and downgrading to unsafe (Which still exists and costs about $400+ and avoids points): Better odds. Whatever you do, please take everything posted here as opinion.
If you are thinking of contesting the ticket and going to trial, the best course of action would be to ask the advice of a lawyer.
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yep I fight every ticket with that "PACE" marked because one a cop always guns it to he's on your bumper, by this time any person normal person would have slowed down or shift to a lower gear. and on top of that i ask in court when was the speedometer last calibrated and since no one every been able to come up with that paper work bye-bye ticket
well you can fight it because the cop has to prove u was driving careless which you wasn't .. you can even if the cop does come to court get him to put himself in a hole if he is asked to recall the date in question. in which you pass him and a group of cars then pulled back over to the right lane.
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The department I work for now frequently calibrates the speedometers by dyno, and the department I worked for years ago did it a few times a year by having a trained officer drive every car in the fleet past another trained officer working a calibrated radar unit. As far as the date in question, it's on the ticket. On the officer's copy of the summons, there's a spot for remarks. The wiser cops use this space to make sure they don't forget details. Remember that if you choose to go to trial, barring physical evidence, it becomes your word against that of someone who routinely testifies in court on the side of the prosecution, as well as that of the prosecutor. In the ten years of doing what I do, I can count on one hand the number of times I saw someone represent themselves on a moving violation and win.