ticket for driving lights

02GTRX said:

The volation is as reads Violation HL & Spotlight w/glaring beam. Statute 66-3-831B. essential facts Driver failed to dim high beams when given the signal to do so. This is in New Mexico

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hate to burst your bubble but you are gonna lose; i was given a written warning by the state police for the same thing; the cop said he flashed me and i did not turn off the fog lights (or what ever you want to call them); after i checked that it is state law that if you are flashed you have to turn them off -- now i know that this is rarely enforced but if your law reads like ours which it appears from what you say in your quote you are goona lose; why he didnt warn you i dont know. good luck; by the way i am in nebraska/

What a bunch of BS!!! If you win and the ticket is thrown out, I would send the town/city a bill for lost wages.

If he loses then there's no justice. He didn't even have his "high beams" on like the cop said, he was just driving around like everybody else thinking he was legal with what can argued are fog lights.

If a cop blue lighted me or whatever he did to signal the guy, I wouldn't even know what he was doing if my high beams were not even on. He should have been given a warning at the MOST.

The cop was fooled by the 4 horizontal lights plain and simple.

Whether or not they're too bright is an opinion, but I personally think they are as well as couple dozen cars who's flashed me.

The New Mexico statute shouldn't stick to the foglamps on the S197. You could obtain or pay for photometric testing that was sponsored by Ford Motor Company for FMVSS certification of the foglamps. You could demonstrate that the isocandela beam pattern for the foglamps is clearly different than the beam pattern for bona fide high beams. They need to understand that the Mustang GT has 2 headlamps and 2 foglamps.