Fighting a Photo Enforcement Notice?

I recently got a photo ticket. It clearly shows my car prior to entering intersection (by few feet) with red light on. I didnt consider fighting it.
Your ticket sound kinda weird---no photo of license plate, just of you? There must be another photo which linked you to the car, but since that wasn't included in your ticket package, maybe you have a case.

Sorry, i'm of no help, but perhaps this will help for your 'next' phototicket:
"PHOTOBLOCK". It's a clear spray on reflective coating that supposedly causes too much reflection off the camera's flash, making your license plate numbers illegible.
I just sprayed my plates today. Small rattle can for $30. (better than $350 ticket plus $100 traffic101.com traffic school).

Good luck

 

A little loop hole pending on who the car is registered to. If you are driving the car, and the car is registered under your wife's name, have your wife take the ticket into any police station and proof that the registered owner was NOT the driver in the photo.

She can claim the driver was an out of town guest, friend, relative...etc that borrowed the car without permission, and she can't do anything about it now since they have returned back to their home/country...etc.

 

I challenged one of these and won. The onus is on the city/judge to prove that the person in the picture (the driver) is also the registered owner of the car. There is no responsibility on the registered owner of the car to make a claim as to who the driver was. In my case I was wearing a hat and sunglasses and it was impossible to make a visual i.d. on me since there was no officer present during the violation. The judge had no choice but to dismiss it. He didn't even ask me who was driving the car, that was irrelevant.

So have your wife go to court to defend herself. The only thing that matters is that she wasn't driving the car and there is no proof (i.e. the picture) that she was driving it. She shouldn't need to have a story ready to tell the judge about who was driving the car since it's irrelevant.

 

Have your wife appear. She doesn't have to testify, nor tell them who the person is or isn't in the picture. It clearly isn't her, and with that she should walk. They can't force her to testify, 5th amendment to the constitution.

Art

 

there's actually a lot of photo intersections in the SB area -- there's at least 2 that i know of that also take video