I was taking a friend to a bus station parking lot because i didnt want to drive the whole distance to someones house, it was raining that day and i didnt know the area pretty well. at the last minute when i had to take a right into a empty parking lot area my car's back end slipped and its my first rear wheel drive car and has a decent amout of power its a lexus. so it semi went sideways. i corrected it and panicked and hit the gas when correcting vs the brake. but my traction control is semi to blame also because it went off but didnt really do much to the situation but made it worse locking a bit. when i finally stopped i saw the cop come in the same entrance from a left turn so im not sure if he saw the whole thing or just herd sounds. and asks me if i am having fun doing circles.
but i got a ticket for reckless driving and he didnt really listen to my story and said i was there to drift. whats my options? it litterally was open no people around at all so i wasnt endangering people|||my advise......learn to drive.....|||Even if your version it the truth, you still admit that you "got the brake and gas mixed up". Whether on accident, or on purpose, what happened to you was reckless driving and you are at fault for it, as you admitted a few times. The defense "my car has more power than I can handle" isn't going to hold up in court.
Take the ticket, go to driving school and mark it up as a lesson learned.
Good luck|||Were you taking a short cut through a parking lot at some point? To me, that's what is sounds like.
You don't take short cuts through parking lots. That's a no, no.
It was raining, you're skidding (going too fast), trying to get car back in control.
You can't justify the "cars" performance, weren't familiar with brake system. Parking lots are 15 miles per hour...cars or no cars. Doesn't matter.
You were driving too fast for conditions. The officer wasn't blindly giving you a ticket .... he/she saw you or could have been watching you slip, sliding away, which adds up to reckless driving.
Police officers see what we don't see. They've been doing their job for so long, they don't miss too much at all. They also have heard every story there is to tell. He even said, were you having fun doing circles? Yes, he saw you. He didn't give you a ticket by sound alone.
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