Ignoring it will always make the problem worse and more expensive. Unless you’re going to be a complete putz in court, the worst possible outcome is that you wasted perhaps an hour of your time and still have to pay the ticket that you already had to pay anyway. This is the only way to get out of a ticket or reduce the cost.

There are no court costs. Points are set by statute, a judge cannot give you points off your license because they’re having a bad day. You may wish to pursue free legal assistance to clarify the laws in your area before disputing the ticket.

Just don’t try violence or threaten or curse at the judge or the pig and the worst that will happen is that you don’t get the ticket reduced or dismissed. There is no consequence for disputing the ticket.

If you cannot afford to pay the ticket by the deadline, you must show up in court to dispute it.

If the cop shows up beforehand, they may try to talk to you and try to screw you into admitting guilt. DO NOT TALK TO THE COP!!!

Fuck cops.

But yeah pay your ticket and don’t go on yellow

To add on to what the other person said. If you show up in court for it to contest it the cop themselves needs to show up as well AFAIK. A decent amount of the time they don’t bother to show up so the ticket ends up getting dismissed. However sometimes they do show up in which case I’m not certain if disputing it puts you in a worse spot than not like points on your driver’s license if as mentioned the judge is spiteful that day. If the cop made their quota and then some chances are greater that they probably won’t bother to show whereas if they didn’t there might be some pressure to make sure they get close by closing your ticket out with a win but it’s all up in the air.

They won’t accept inability to pay as an excuse or go easy on you over it, at most you can get a payment plan so I guess try for that.

When is ticket deadline until you get charged extra? I am running a little low on money currently but in late feb I might be able to donate you some cash to help pay

Ignoring it will make it more expensive or worse.

Contesting it gives you a small chance of getting out of it, though. The cop might not show up and if they don’t then you’ve got a very good chance with making your case of, “no I didn’t run that light”.

However, if you have to take a day off work or drive a long ways, you’re still losing that cost, so factor that into your decision.

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cops ticketing you for absolute bullshit

Oh yeah, it’s filling a quota time. Do the risky shit the first 3 weeks or so but never on the last few days. Ironically, stopping at that same light would probably have been more risky as you’d have to slam on the brakes.

Like, okay, even if I BLATANTLY ran it I can’t even justify 200 fucking dollars for it.

In my third world country that would cost you at least twice as much, and you’d also lose your licence for at least 3 months.

But on the other hand the traffic cams won’t record you unless all 4 of your wheels were in front of the traffic lights when they turned red.

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I really thought as long as you were fully in the intersection during the yellow, then you’d be good. I see people run worse than that all the time.

Real talk, I know it’s unfair and stupid, but it def won’t go away if you ignore it. If you straight up don’t do anything, it’ll probably end up as a minor warrant*. They won’t kick down your door to find you, but they could haul you into jail for a bit if you get pulled over sometime in the future. It just gets more expensive with fees and hassle if you let it sit.

I’ve paid similar tickets in installments before, but that was a long time ago. It can’t hurt to drop by the spot where people pay the tickets just to see if the folks at the counter can get you a payment plan or something like that. Just keep in mind that they’ll probably be meaner than the DMV and try to keep your cool.

You might be able to dispute it in court, but that has the potential of getting a judge on a bad day and making things a lot messier.

I’m sorry you have to deal with this. This shit is absolutely the worst.

*- Assuming you’re in the U$

I have never gotten a ticket for running a red light. I may have done so once or twice but I guess I was just lucky no one was around to see it. But I have gotten my share of speeding tickets and especially parking tickets and I definitely get the impression they are always looking for the slightest excuse to milk money out of you. It’s all the more frustrating when you know that you are actually a pretty safe driver and they get you on the tiniest step over the line while you see others who are behaving really recklessly and nobody seems to care.

Is running yellow not a violation in where you are?

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