Many people view a traffic ticket as a minor inconvenience that does not require their immediate attention. However, that minor inconvenience can become a major problem if you lose your license or see skyrocketing insurance rates.
With the thousands of miles of roadways sprawling across the nation, and the many, often obscure laws, it is not uncommon or even that difficult to find yourself charged with a traffic ticket. These can range in severity, and can have varying penalties that accompany with them, but regardless of the exact situation that you find yourself facing, if you have been charged with a traffic violation of any kind, you can be confident that the lawyers at our firm will do everything in our power to ensure that you are given the necessary tools for fighting off something you have been wrongfully accused for. While many people simply don’t see the purpose of fighting something they view as minor as a traffic ticket, the hard truth is that you should never be forced to deal with the repercussions of something you did not commit.
Civil Traffic Violation
If you pay a ticket for a traffic violation, the financial consequences are not over. A finding of responsible can mean additional traffic points, and that can mean an increase in your insurance rates. We can protect your rights in court, argue the facts and determine whether or not the ticket was written up properly. Traffic violations lawyers routinely handle a variety of civil traffic offenses, including the following civil traffic offenses:
- Speeding
- Red light
- Wide Left Turn
- Failure to Control Speed to Avoid a Collision
Traffic offenses can take many different forms including moving violations and non-moving violation. Non-moving violations include traffic offenses such as seat belt violations, certain registration violations, and other offenses that neither cause insurance points nor cause DMV points.
Moving violations include citations such as traffic tickets, stop sign or stop light violations, illegal passing, careless & reckless driving, failure to yield, No Operator’s License (NOL), Driving While License Revoked (DWLR), Driving While Impaired (DWI / DUI) and many other traffic violations. These violations all have various consequences and each have both DMV and insurance point consequences.
A traffic ticket is not a simple matter! Simply paying a traffic summons does not end the matter since the DMV puts POINTS on your license for most traffic infractions. Just two or three summonses on your record can total up to enough points for you to lose your license. In some cases even ONE violation can cause you to lose your license! This is why it is important to defend yourself against a traffic summons even if it is only your first violation.
While there are a number of different technologies and methods used nationwide to measure speed of a vehicle, the three seen most with respect to New York speeding tickets are radar, laser and pace (clock and follow). All methods of measuring speed may have a similar purpose but they achieve their objectives and are operated quite differently. In any speeding case, an officer must be prepared to offer certain evidence and set forth certain testimony to the court.
