OsamaBinMartin

Hey, I was driving down a large 5 lane highway by my house one day, this is a very busy 45 mph road with lots of traffic usually. I guess a school bus stopped, i didnt see him because there was a huge freight truck right behind him so it blocked my vision while they were in the right lane and I was in the lane next to them going the same direction.

I accidentally went past this stopped school bus which supposedly was putting out its stop sign and it airhorned me and scared the crap out of me.

It was an accident, and I couldnt see the bus because it just looked like regular old traffic on this highway where sometimes one lane stops while the other keeps flowing normally.

Anyways, today I just received a citation in the mail that a vehicle registered to me was cited for failing to yield for a school bus. It says to provide the information to the best of my knowledge about who was driving my car at that time.

Then it says RCW 46.61.371
http://www.leg.wa.gov/RCW/index.cfm...eaction=section
states that if you resonably believe that provision of this information is self incriminating you are not required to do so.

Now, is this one of those Plead the 5th type of deals where I just say no comment and they dont have hard evidence to give me a violation since no officer saw it and i never signed it and they cant really indentify it was me.

They can only give the ticket if they can prove without a doubt that it was myself driving, so not answering at all should basically give them nothing to work with. Or does this mean not providing information shows that I feel it self incriminates me which shows them im guilty?

Also, any opinions on if I just reply to them and say I've had like 7 or 8 of my friends drive my car in the past month so I dunno if one of them may have done it when I let them "borrow" my car. You think that could stand up to get me out of this.

Let me know what you guys think. thanks.

OsamaBinMartin

also this was a letter from the sherrif's dept, not an actual ticket/citation

beanolo

if they don't have proof they really dont have anything on you... what if the bus driver got the plate wrong? its so up in the air... i would just call and say that i wasn't you... and how you could go about clearing your name... also posting this on a public board is the last thing i would do

samonkahonk

they are burdened with proof of guilt

you are innocent until proven guilty

dont rat yourself out plus it says you dont have to tell them it was you so just tell them your not telling or something

YeLLoWs2knVA

Well is it a citation or not? If it's not a citation why are you here asking this?

SilverKnight

hey how did it take for you to get the letter after the incident?

YeLLoWs2knVA

Probably because they got his plate. Similar to the way red light camera traffic tickets work...

no_really

plead the fifth - that is what it is there for. There is no moral victory by incriminating yourself over a minor infraction like this. Just don't do it again, or you could kill some kid.

Incubus

I think he wants to know how long it took. So let's have it...how long?

S2000boi

tell them it wasn't u... they have no proof