For a summary conviction or plea of guilty to going 25 over the posted speed limit PennDot will impose 4 points on your license.
If you are really worried about points on your license or any kind of traffic infraction on your record, call or speak with an attorney. You will not be appointed a public defender for the traffic citation, so you must contact your local bar association for a referral. An experienced traffic attorney can negotiate with the police, as well as spot any potential technical arguments. If the officer is unwilling to negotiate and you have to go through with a hearing, an attorney can properly cross examine the officer and make additional legal arguments.
Having said that, most police are willing to work with you if you have an otherwise clean driving record and explain that the points will increase your insurance or have some other deleterious effect.
For example, you may be permitted to plead to a "thirty-one eleven".
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Originally Posted by 75 Pa. C.S.A. § 3111. Obedience to traffic-control devices
(a) General rule.--Unless otherwise directed by a uniformed police officer or any appropriately attired person authorized to direct, control or regulate traffic, the driver of any vehicle shall obey the instructions of any applicable official traffic-control device placed or held in accordance with the provisions of this title, subject to the privileges granted the driver of an emergency vehicle in this title.
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This is a summary offense which carries a fine, but no points on your license.
If convicted of the speeding charge you could theoretically have the ticket and subsequent summary conviction expunged, but you would have to hire an attorney and it might be a difficult process. Also, this will not affect the amount of points imposed on your license.
The Pennsylvania Point system:
Provides that only after the accumulation of six points do administrative penalties set in (beginning with a lovely safety-refresher course).
3 points are removed every year after your violation in which you do not receive a ticket.
Read more about the Point System here:
http://www.dmv.state.pa.us/pdotforms...rms/dl-71p.pdf
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If you are interested in hiring an attorney to represent you at the hearing, feel free to PM me for a recommendation.