Take the deferment and don't get another ticket.

I passed through that speed trap. Go to court, ask for a deferral and take the hit on the chin.

1. Contest the ticket. Check the contested box and mail it in. It doesn't hurt to do this, and gives you time to see what evidence they have.

2. Once you get your court date notice back, make a Request for Discovery and get the officer's notes and all proof of the infraction. Make sure that request is certified mail or some other traceable method. Look online for the language to use.

3. If you get the requested materials, review the evidence. Since it sounds like the officer lost sight of you, they will need some proof that they measured your speed and tag number (e.g. laser photo) so they knew they were pulling over the right car and not something similar. If there's no proof that it was your car, or if you don't receive the materials by the court date, go to court and request a dismissal.

4. Since the ticket was issued quickly, there's a chance you were measured by another officer. They sometimes work in teams on I5 with one officer on an on -ramp/overpass or airplace, and a group just chasing down drivers handing out tickets. These usually can be thrown out as heresay unless the ticket is issued (along with notes) from the measuring officer.

5. Even if they have proof, since you claim you weren't speeding, testify as such. Bring any evidence you have. Dashcam, passengers, etc. If this is your first offence, I've seen judges accept a defendant's testimony and lower the fine or dismiss. This is a last ditch effort, and low chance of success, but I have seen people admit to speeding but "had a screaming kid in the back", or "really had to pee", get let off. Really depends on the judge.

Did you have your phone on you? Turns out Googles mechanics have a good pretty good gps tracking mechanism that records your movement and you might be able to look up the history of the route you were driving? just a thought, but you could use the time positioning details to bascially calculate speed showing you were traveling at a lawful speed and not over the speed limit. Besides that, I'd also consider going to court, just by showing up it's almost gauranteed to get the ticket reduced and if the officer doesn't show up to court then it'll probably been even better.

Yeah, whenever people talk about these numbers being impossible, it's very strange to me. My number is certainly not that high, but that's because I got into a committed relationship at 22. If I just kept dating and screwing around at the same rate I was from 18-22 (particularly 21-22) it would have been easy to hit those numbers by 25.

A couple thousand people is probably good enough for getting the average of the country, but a little over a hundred is probably insufficient for getting the average in this part of the country. Sample size is really all that matters, not sample size as a ratio of a whole.

Third beach trailhead is open.

I went two weeks ago and it was fine. Never blocked and people were moving along quickly. Small construction after lake crescent which delayed about five minutes.

As someone who has had over 25 speeding tickets I can relate but going to court to fight it is a low success proposition. You can try one of those services that help you fight. Take a look at Ticket Doctor if you want to fight it. All else fails, take traffic school so your insurance doesn't go up.

Hope he doesn't show up to the court date when you contest it is basically your only hope, maybe hire a lawyer, but that's gonna end up costing more than the ticket so it depends how badly you don't want it on your record I guess.

The beach I grew up going to in SoCal was literally called "ocean beach" so I honestly think this is a step up naming-wise

As a person who grew up in the Palouse, just get off the highways and you'll see plenty. Take a side road through the fields and see where it takes you. You'll find more old buildings that way than along highway routes.

This post seems more about op justifying their body count than anything else

Shows "closed to the public" but sometimes these sites take a while to update.

https://www.nps.gov/places/000/first-beach-la-push.htm

Are these open yet? I know that many locations were shuttered due to covid...last year I rode out and it was still closed, but that was like 6 months ago.

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How’s the drive over there right now?

Better than naming it after some random British explorer

You can't draw any conclusions from a poorly constructed and methodologically unsound poll other than the pollster is an idiot.

I think you need to take a nap my friend, not sure why this has you so up in arms. I posted a picture of WA in the WA sub. I'm not in either Seattle sub because I don't live in Seattle.

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No, just boots. It's a popular trail.

I am not sure what the bee in your bonnet is about this is..? I posted a pic of WA's best known city in a sub dedicated to WA.

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Last I checked, Seattle is a city in Washington.