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Editor: Bob Battle
Profession: DUI Defense Lawyer

Category: Virginia Reckless Driving/Speeding

Henrico County Police Officer M.C.Pecka won top honors at the Chesapeake Bay Police Motorcycle Rodeo competition held recently in Portsmouth Virginia. A series of obstacle courses were set up in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart in Portsmouth. Pecka and Officer E.J. Leabough of the Henrico County Police Department finished first and second in a number of events and teamed up with officers from the Alexandria Police Department to win the team competition. Proceeds from the event raised $12,000 for the March of Dimes Foundation.

Click here to see how difficult the obstacle course was.

So what does Officer Pecka win for his first-place finish in the competition? Last week, the Henrico Division of Police received a new, hand-held radar unit from Kustom Signals Inc. as recognition of Pecka's accomplishments. Great, so now Henrico County police can write more speeding tickets. Virginia has already been ranked as the most expensive state in the country for speeding tickets.

So if you are speeding in Henrico County and you see flashing lights behind you coming from a motorcycle, do not attempt to elude the officer in the parking lot of the local Wal-Mart! Seriously, if you are ever stopped for speeding or other traffic offense in Virginia, you should always be polite and cooperative with the officer. This matters a lot more to judges and prosecutors than it really should. After all, who is ever happy that they have been given a ticket. However, I regularly see people get convicted of the criminal offense of Reckless Driving Speeding who otherwise would have had their charges reduced or dismissed because they could not keep their mouth shut at the roadside. As one ex-police officer told me, more people talk themselves into tickets than talk themselves out of tickets.

So what do you do if you have been charged with Reckless Driving Speeding in Henrico County or anywhere in Virginia? You contact an experienced Virginia Traffic Lawyer like Henrico County Reckless Driving Speeding Lawyer Bob Battle. Battle's law firm helps hundreds of motorists every year get their Reckless Driving Speeding charges reduced or dismissed, usually without the client even having to appear in court on the trial date.