Received unfair fine, solution?

Last fall, I received a $250 fine for speeding and reckless driving. I appealed the fine and it was denied by the board. What would you suggest I do? They have threatened to double it unless I pay it. Here is the scenario of exactly what happened.

Upon leaving my house in the morning, I traveled my usual route to the entrance of the community. I drove down the street to take a right in the direction of the community entrance. While approaching the stop sign, I saw the other member passing my street. This street towards the entrance has a slight right hand turn down a hill and then back up a hill. I caught up to the other member upon the end of the hill/going up the next hill. This was in the fall so there were many potholes throughout the community. I did drive around a few of them behind the member to avoid them. We both began our ascent up the hill. The streets in the community are somewhat narrow so when no cars are around people tend to drive towards the middle of the street as the member in front of me was. He pulled the car to the right and slammed on his brakes to a complete stop. I stopped behind him. After a few seconds passed, I considered this as a gesture to pass so I began going into the other lane. This is when the other member accelerated parking his car perpendicular to mine and blocking me off. I slammed on my brakes and nearly missed hitting him. He proceeded to get out of his car and say "what the hell are you doing, all you new people are causing problems in the community" I sat in my car and told him I thought he wanted me to pass. He got back in his car and drove off. The other member noted in the complaint that he did not see me in the rear view mirror and then he did upon going up the hill (this was his reasoning for me speeding) and that I was driving erratically all over the road. The member is also on the board.

Since this event, I have taken video of other members also being many car lengths behind me and then catching up to me. I did not report them. A few months ago my girlfriend was also noted for speeding in the community and we were issued a $50 fine which we did pay.

Do I have any options?

BillyB - I meant to say seeking advice from an Attorney.

Billy - You can seek legal advice without going to court. Let them take you to court. Then you can defend. You need to find out if they are justified in issuing speeding fines. Our community is posted 25 mph and we do have speeders and our Board will write them a letter, but they have never fined them as there is nothing in our Covenants regarding speeding. Did you read anything in your Covenants covering this?

I cant imagine the board being able to enforce a speeding fine unless they were able to accurately determine if you were speeding or not. I also do not see how they can fine you based solely on here say. I would get legal help on this one.

Another reason why I want to fight this is because in this community's penalty "bracket", the next offense is an automatic $500. I can only imagine under what grounds they would issue that since they can fine me over avoiding potholes and speeding as per a rear view mirror.

I can't seem to find them at my home or online, I guess the best thing would be to ask them to provide them to me.

The Covenants should be available online at your County Recorder's website although you will probably need to request a copy of the rules from the HOA.

Sorry again = I must be half asleep, mispelled your name BillyG