A speeding ticket once in a blue moon is not much to ruffle most people's feathers. However, if you tend to drive with what others have referred to as "a lead foot," you may have more than one, or two, speeding tickets. Projecting your future along these lines, you could end up in a terrible car wreck. If you are fined and given multiple speeding tickets without getting into an accident, some consequences could be equally as severe as a car accident. Here is what you can expect for your third and succeeding traffic citations for speeding, and how a traffic citation lawyer may be of some help.
Points Off Your License Until Suspension
Usually, the first two speeding tickets are randomly given without much thought to ongoing speeding issues. When you are issued a third, fourth, or fifth speeding ticket, then a pattern of driving behavior is established. It becomes clear to any police officer pulling you over for speeding that you habitually speed and that a heavier punishment is needed to try and curb this habit. Ergo, your citations will begin to include demerit points off of your license. As an adult in most states, you have twelve points on your license. You cannot lose all twelve in a single calendar year or you will be facing suspension of your license and driving privileges. Most people never get that far.
Suspension of License and Speeding While Suspended
A lot of drivers are often confused about how anyone with a suspended license could still be driving. There is an answer, and an exception, for that. In some states, courts allow a person with a suspended license to drive IF the person provides a list of work or school hours where it is necessary to drive and no one else can help him/her get to and from these locations. Yet, if you do qualify for this exception and you drive suspended and speed, you are facing revocation. Revocation time may be as much as a month to three years, depending on the state in which you live, and you would be paying some very steep fines in the process.
How the Traffic Lawyer Can Help
At around the third or fourth ticket, you should be looking to hire a traffic lawyer. You need an intervention of sorts, before things become worse. The traffic lawyer can argue for less fees, signing up to take traffic school lessons to drive slower and better, and even court-ordered anger management classes if the speeding problem is related to road rage. If you wait to seek out help until the fourth or fifth ticket, then you might be looking at suspension or revocation, but the lawyer may be able to get the time of suspension or revocation reduced.
To learn more, talk to a speeding ticket lawyer.
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