What happens if you're caught driving with the wrong license plates?
Where I worked, this was called “fictitious plates or registration.” It was regarded as considerably more serious than driving without registration.If an officer found a car bearing plates registered to another car, his first suspicion would be that the car is stolen, because that is frequently the case. A smart car thief will steal a set of cold plates from a car of the same make and model, but most car thieves aren’t that smart. If you run the plates on a Ford and they come back to a Volkswagen, you start thinking, “stolen car.”If the officer thinks he is dealing with an occupied stolen car, he may conduct a high-risk stop, which is where everyone inside the car is brought out one at a time and proned on the pavement, at gunpoint. It will be an event you will not quickly forget.Less commonly, I would stop someone with fictitious plates, and they would tell me, “My plates expired, so I put these on it so I could drive it.” Having the wrong plates on the car might make it less noticeable to the cops, but the consequences of getting caught were considerably more grave.If you were driving a car with no plates or expired plates, we would write you a ticket for “registration required.” That was a $15 fine, and the court would almost always dismiss it if you got the car registered by the time you went to court.If you were driving a car with fictitious plates,The car would be impounded.The plates would be seized.You would get a ticket (or possibly be arrested) for driving with fictitious plates ($375 fine), and probably also for driving without insurance, because unregistered cars are seldom insured.The DMV would suspend the car’s registration, meaning there would be more hoops to jump through to get it registered.You might be on the receiving end of a high-risk car stop.Just get the car registered. It’s cheaper for everyone.
Can someone report me for speeding?
Do not return to the house. She's probably over it by now, however there is no need to risk the possibly she isn't over it. Most likely she went inside, complained about the idiot in the street and has moved on with life. However, she has already exhibited violent behavior, any attempt to contact her could escalate in a bad way. Nevada is a castle doctrine state with a high rate of firearm ownership, knowing that, I would personally not go looking to contact anyone where I know there is a high probability of confrontation. I would most likely choose to just let it go. If contacted, the police will take a report. They'll look up your records, assuming it is clean as you've stated, it will get logged in the computer and that will be the end of their interest. If they're bored, or if you did or she claims you were aggressive/violent, they'll come knock on the door and want to talk to you. They will add your testimony, if any to their report, maybe give you a lecture about driving and etiquette, but they cannot cite you based on hearsay. If you are ever pulled over in the future, that incident report may or may not be available to the officer in the field, and depending on how the officers wrote it up, may or may not influence their decision to give you a ticket or a warning, but that's about all the legal leverage she has against you.If you if feel you were seriously threatened by this woman, write down the street, what block/house numbers the encounter occurred at, a description of the woman, and report her yourself. If nothing else, it's a record of events on the off chance you ever encounter this stranger again.
Traffic Law: How does a speed camera distinguish a speeding car moving among multiple vehicles in close proximity?
While I do not know for sure, I can envision one simple solution. The sensor triggers the camera when it detects anything moving above the speed limit in a small frame, e.g., a square 10mm. The thing that triggered the sensor will be in the center of the frame, hence the vehicle or part of the vehicle. An algorithm can adjust the center of the frame based on camera shutter speed and target speed if required for accuracy.While this method can pick a speeding vehicle out of a very crowded scene, there does need to be a sufficient portion of the license plate visible to make a positive identification.
Red light camera ticket?
Unless the car is stolen, a red light photo ticket will not get your license suspended lol. A red light camera takes photos of your vehicle and its license plate number. Law Enforcement may choose to act on it or not. If they do, They will most likely send a ticket in the mail. This goes to the registered owner of the vehicle, regardless of the driver at the time of the photo capture. It is as a normal ticket would be issued by an officer. 3 or 4 points for the violation. It takes 12 points in a 12 months period to result in license suspension in the state of Florida, and it is almost identical for all other states. Since this is your first ticket, ask about driving school to eliminate your points off of your license, so that it appears you have no record of that ticket. The course usually costs around 20-30 dollars, and is a 4 hour course, available locally or through internet, and it sometimes reduces your ticket cost. One more thing that may be helpful. If the "flash" that you saw is a little white light located right above the stop light. At most intersections this is there so that at any angle, when the light turns red, officers can see it (i.e. An officer is sitting at the intersection adjacent to you and cannot see the stop light, this white light shows the light is red, and allows officers to see that you have made a violation). Red light cameras are a fairly recent addition to intersections. Depending on your city, there may not be many cameras. When you see the video camera looking things, they are exactly what they appear to be... cameras, to capture violators, and in some cases monitor traffic. I hope that I was helpful in answering your questions :)
Will my probation officer find out I was involved in a traffic stop if no ticket was issued?
Yes, she will find out. If a driver I pulled over was on probation or parole, dispatch would inform me that there was a "P&P hit" on their record. I then had to provide a summary of the stop disposition. What they basically wanted to know was the reason for police contact, the outcome of the encounter, and the demeanor of the subject during the encounter. Generally my returns were pretty simple affairs, something along the lines of, "Stopped for expired plates, given verbal warning, cooperative" or "Stopped for failure to yield, moderately verbally resistant, issued two municipal citations and released."After I give dispatch this information, they enter it into their computer systems; I'm not conversant with the actual architectures here, since I didn't have direct access to them, but the information about the encounter is made available to your probation officer, I'm assuming by being attached to your file electronically. Once they pull your information up, they'll basically be able to see exactly what I said happened during the course of the stop.As far as all this is concerned, I'm in no position to dispense legal advice, but I wouldn't worry about the outcome of her finding out about a simple traffic stop, especially if no enforcement action was taken. Probation officers realize that police officers can collectively make hundreds of stops a day in a decently-sized jurisdiction, and that many of these stops are more proactive policing than meant to stop egregious behavior. This may be mentioned in passing, but as long as you were respectful during the encounter, it's very doubtful to have any effect on your probation status whatsoever.
Do attaining traffic tickets violate probation in the US? Why?
Getting a traffic citation may violate the terms of probation or parole. As the anonymous reply stated, most probation and parole orders prohibit violating any law, including traffic laws. However, unless your probation prohibits driving or the violation is particularly egregious, it probably won't effect your probation.Police don't typically report a basic traffic citation to the probation officer unless there's some other issue involved. I have forwarded the in-car video of a stop or two to the probation officer when the driver has MF'd me a lot or been a particular pain in the ass. I don't expect the driver will get violated for that, but it does usually create the opportunity for a heart-to-heart chat between the probationer and the probation officer.
Can police track owners from their vehicle number plates?
I’m not quite sure of what you mean by track. If the operator is the legal, registered of a vehicle the plate attached will give the police a great deal of information if that is your intent.Name, address, age, SSN, criminal record, outstanding warrants or any other wants by law enforcement agencies such as state and Federal. Vehicle status relative to being properly registered and insured will be available. Complete driving history will show all citations, accidents, court results, jail time, probation status, etc. much of this information is available by computer with specific actions all stemming from the original entry of the registration number.The insurance company will be listed as well as when the last state inspection was made and the status of the inspection sticker. You can even check other states information and the FBI information relative to Federal involvement, fingerprint info, pictures, etc.There is quite a list of things that can be learned from a registration or license status check through the computer system. As I said most are subsequent requests with specific codes but can all be initiated with the first basic inquiry.