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Old 07-29-2011, 12:39 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by BullittSVT View Post
An officer does need to witness it, I work as a parking jockey for a police station and there's been plenty of near accidents, light taps of cars on pedestrians stuff like that and when an officer comes and hears the complaint from someone I've heard directly "If I didn't see it I can't ticket it"
Can't do much here Jeff, sorry.
This can't be 100% true, otherwise there wouldn't be any tickets given at the scene of an accident unless it was witnessed by the responding officer.

If I remember correctly, my MIL was in an accident a few years ago, completely not her fault. However, the idiot that hit her went to the police station and said she was speeding. She was mailed a ticket. She was able to fight it in court (if I remember correctly the responding officer showed up to court with her and basically backed her up), but she still had to go.
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