Drunk Driving Research Paper

essay for ticket

On may third two thousand and ten, at nine o'clock in the morning i received a ticket for driving while in use of a motor vehicle. At the time of the suspected incident, i had just pulled up to a red stop light and was running a little late because of the traffic. So i decided to call my sergeant which is in charge of me to let him know what was going on, i picked up my cell phone after i had come to a complete stop and then called him, at this time the light is still red, i talked to my Sgt on the phone for maybe like a total of about forty seconds at the most . Hung up the cell phone on my end. At this point still stopped at the red light waiting for it to turn green, well i waited for the light to finally turn green this is when i proceed to drive on at this point, i got about maybe one hundred yards down the road and looked in my rearview mirror and i see red and blue lights, i began to pull to the side of the road to let the officer pass the next thing i know
The officer walks up to the car, gives his reason for pulling me over then gave me a citation then proceeded to tell me that had i ran a red light or ran a stop sign that he could have over looked the ticket or let me go with basically a warning, which made no sense because doing something of that nature seems a lot more dangerous than talking on a cell phone at a red light stopped, at this point now you know why i'm attempting to write this essay on why not to drive and use a cell