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No, it's not ironic.
I don't know how the U.K. does their tickets, but in the U.S., getting ticket for failure to maintain control is the perfect one.
And I know GTPIMP will ask me why, here's so.
In the U.S., a speeding ticket is usually only given out when you're caught speeding. In this case, speeding was the cause of the accident. Failure to maintain vehicle was given because GTPIMP's friend failed to control his car under the speed limit in the sense that he failed to use his brain, and drive under the speed limit on a wet road. Thus, failing to control (keep) his car under the speed limit causing him to lose control is why the ticket was given, not because his friend lost the car on the wet road.
GTPIMP here is thinking of the ticket in terms that his friend lost control. That's not why it was given. It was given, as said, because he failed to keep control of the car in the speed limit by going 50...in a 20mph zone.
Failure to maintain control tickets in the U.S. are not given to those who lose control by surfaces. People who catch a patch of black ice are not given tickets because black ice was the cause, unless they were doing over the speed limit. Failure to Maintain Control of the vehicle is just a different term of speeding ticket except it's usually given to those who crash because of speeding.
And since the Govt. has made both speeding and F.T.M.C. different tickets, the officer would be in the right to ALSO give you a ticket for speeding.
The ticket is justified in everyway because you're friend was speeding. I think you should be thankful the officer did not also attach a speeding ticket to it which was in his own right.
