What many people overlook with traffic tickets is their compounding effect. By simply paying a ticket, you have one strike on your record. For most traffic offenses, this puts points on your driving record, which allows your insurer to increase your rates. So, now the ticket has cost much more than the fine.
If you get another ticket within three years, the ticket penalty and insurance costs will rise again — steeply.
On top of the fine, you could lose your driver’s license for a single ticket. Sometimes police officers will tell people they can pay their ticket through the mail. But if that ticket was for 15 mph or more over the speed limit, the next thing in the mail will be notice from the DMV that your driver’s license has been suspended for 60 days.
Once one ticket is handled incorrectly, driver’s license problems tend to snowball. It can be complicated and expensive to try to resolve the issues once they get out of control. We know this well as we frequently have to fix mistakes committed by less diligent lawyers.
However, an experienced local traffic offense attorney who does the homework and checks your driving record carefully will know how to handle a particular ticket under a particular set of circumstances.
