State Sen. Mike Regan may have chosen not to challenge his speeding ticket in court but he intends to try to present his a case to a jury of his peers: his fellow lawmakers.
Regan, R-Cumberland/York counties, is seeking support for a proposed bill that would change a state law pertaining to speeding violations to say that police cannot presume a driver was speeding if a crash occurs.
Instead, the police would have to perform a full investigation to determine the driver’s speed, Regan proposes.
Regan is pushing to change the law after recently pleading guilty to two traffic citations stemming from the crash.
The two-term senator took issue with a citation he received for a violation of “driving at a safe speed” following his March 21 crash on South Mountain Road in Franklin Township, York County.
The other citation he received for driving an unregistered vehicle wasn’t debatable, he said. He admits his registration had expired but said he didn’t know it at the time.
Regan said he tried to plead guilty to the driving an unregistered vehicle offense but not guilty to the speeding offense when he mailed the citation back to the court. But he said it was returned to him saying he couldn’t divide his pleas for offenses that stem from the same incident.
“I was riding with two other guys, riding one, two, three. They were going to testify for me,” Regan said. Then he said his Senate schedule got busy and he didn’t think it was worth taking his friends away from their jobs to go to court to fight a citation to avoid paying a fine of roughly $70 so he paid it.
“But I do take exception to the law,” Regan said. “There was no police officer there. No one clocked me. No one saw me speeding but they can just automatically charge it which I thought didn’t seem very fair.”
Northern York Regional police was reported by WHTM as saying “driving at safe speed” citations are a commonly enforced violation for a crash when police don’t know how fast someone was driving but it is determined they were traveling too fast for conditions.
That strikes Regan as “a catch-all revenue gainer for the municipality.” So he is setting out to narrow its application through his proposed legislation that he hopes sees Senate action this fall.
Regan told PennLive in April that he believes it was an overinflated rear tire on his motorcycle that contributed to the crash. He said it caused his bike to slide out from under him as he rounded a curve.
The senator broke both legs in the crash and required surgery. He returned to the Senate floor four weeks later but continues to recover from his injuries.
Regan, a former U.S. marshal, said 99% of the time he stands with law enforcement officers.
In this instance, Regan said, “I certainly feel comfortable pitching my case to any police department or anybody else my rationale behind it. Nobody agrees all the time.”
Jan Murphy may be reached at jmurphy@pennlive.com. Follow her on Twitter at @JanMurphy.
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