Many people who regularly drive commit minor traffic violations a few times a week. People forget to use their turn signals occasionally. They may also sometimes violate the speed limit. Factors ranging from a lack of signage to running behind schedule can lead to...
Speeding Tickets
3 ways a traffic ticket could affect someone’s career
People largely understand that traffic tickets are economic penalties. After all, someone written a ticket by a police officer has to pay a fine in order to resolve the issue. What people frequently fail to recognize is that paying of citation is effectively the same...
New York uses automation to catch speeding drivers in work zones
No driver enjoys encountering a highway work zone. Even though they’re necessary to improve and repair the roads, they slow down traffic and sometimes require detours. Nonetheless, it’s crucial for drivers to slow down when they encounter these areas and obey all...
How many points does a New York speeding ticket cost?
Traffic infractions are the most common criminal offenses cited in New York. People who would never think of stealing from a business or assaulting a person still often violate traffic statutes. People think of traffic violations as minor inconveniences, as opposed to...
Are there any defenses to a speeding ticket?
When people get pulled over by the police, they often give excuses or reasons why they were speeding. For instance, someone may honestly claim that they didn’t know what the speed limit was at the time, so they didn’t mean to break the limit. Or they may claim that...
It costs more to pay a traffic ticket than people realize
To many people in New York, the flashing lights of a police vehicle behind them are synonymous with the loss of several hundred dollars. They assume that an officer will write them a ticket and that they will have to pay a fine. Especially for speeding infractions,...
Are there speed cameras in New York?
Speed cameras are somewhat controversial. It’s one thing to be pulled over by a police officer who saw you speeding and got a speed reading from a radar gun. But it can feel very different if you simply get mailed a ticket because a camera took a picture of your...
Too many speeding tickets could cost your license
Of all of the legal infractions you could commit, a traffic violation might seem like the least serious. Especially when there is no collision that results but instead only a technical infraction that causes a citation, a traffic violation may barely seem like illegal...
When does speeding become reckless driving?
Many people speed each and every day, even though they know that they’re violating the law when they do so. While it’s not good to speed, speeding isn’t always necessarily reckless. Going a few miles per hour over the speed limit is not only common but generally not...
Can you fight a speeding ticket without going to court?
You recently were given a speeding ticket, and you believe that it isn't valid. Perhaps you claim that they pulled over the wrong car or that the officer clocked you at the wrong speed. There are many reasons why you could feel that you weren't actually breaking the...