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i was wondering how many points you have on your license. like i just got a speeding ticket for 200 bucks and 4 points.
and what happens when you get too many points?

mb99usa

At least where I live, PA, when you hit a certain number of points you have to take a test to keep from having your license suspended.

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absorbentishe

If you acquire too many points in a certain amount of time, your license will be suspened, it's within like 2 years I think. You'll have to stay low for a while. Plus, if your insurance co. finds out, they'll tack on a few extra dollars to the insuance, for 3 years!

pocon1

If you have not paid the ticket yet, go to court. If the officer does not show, the ticket is automatically dismissed. If you show, you may get a little leniency if you are apologetic. If you get a couple of points knocked off, it can save big on your insurance. You might also be able to take a traffic school course which can alsl knock some points off your license. I went to court one time in MD, and the only person who paid the full price was a woman who denied everything. Everyone else offered guilty with an explanation and got a reduced ticket. My officer did not show, so my ticket was dismissed.

Soggybagel

Friend of mines ticket got reduced alot just for pleading guilty. It sucked though because i was with him and the court case right before the officer didn't show...it was dismissed.

anleja

I believe in my home state of Michigan you need 12 points to get a suspended license. I got 3 points a few years ago for "careless driving" which happened when my steering malfunctioned and I crashed through a fence. I probably wouldn't have gotten that charge but I admitted to the cops I was having trouble steering for a while before the accident. Bad idea.

skysooner

It all depends on the state where you live. In Oklahoma it is 10 points with 3 years. A speeding ticket over a certain mph over the limit is 2 pts. Careless driving is 3 pts. If you go 3 years without a ticket, your record is wiped. One thing I have done in the past is to offer to take a defensive driving course when I went in to plee, and they will usually agree to knock the ticket off your record once you turn in proof you attended.

petergriffin24

Yeah I live in PA too, and I went over the 6 points and had to retake the written potion of my test again to lose so many points to be legal again. But me being the genius that I was when I was younger I went out and got another speeding ticket which bumped me back up to 9 points and since I just took the test they told me that I would just stay at 9 points and would have to wait for each year to pass to lose 3 points per year. If I would have received one more ticket during those 4 years, 3 off each year and one entire year at zero to be clean again, I would've lost my license for 6 months no questions asked.

So needless to say I watched my speed for four years, I ended up getting 7 tickets in 2 years and haven't had one now for five (**knock wood**)!! Anyway that is my little story, but I do think 6 is the magic number before something happens to you!!

guthmund

When I was a teenager I had my driver's license quasi-suspended.

Where I live anything over 13 and they start handing out suspensions. The more points you accumulate the longer the suspension.

I had 22 points on my license when I was 17. I had to go in front of a review board. They told me that they would let me keep my license (I pleaded hardship and my 4 month stretch of good behavior) but if I had one more point added it would be suspended for up to a year.

That lasted for about 8 months until my points total dropped below 13.

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aintyoboyfriend

I have never even had points on my license.

I have only gotten two speeding tickets in 8 years of driving.

I drive really fast too, I don't understand how I have not getting more (or more serious) tickets.

Jam

youve gotten tickets and no points?

i got one ticket for like 180 and 3 points


good thing they caught me when i did because i was still accelerating and was about to be excessive :O

laconic1

I've had a license for eight years now and have never had a ticket. Colorado has a graduated system. When I got my license I only started with 6 available points before they suspend your license, when I turned 18 they gave me three more points, and I finally got my full 12 points available when I turned 21.

Jam

well here we have a graduated liscence system too... when u are still a new driver your only aloud one ticket the next will be your liscence... i got mine well i had my new drivers... but hey a year later im driving trucks around so its sure a screwed up system eh?

cliche

I managed a speeding ticket in Ireland (thought the main roads would be 70mph like the UK! oops) but luckily the points don't transfer over between countries...

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Jaseca

How long is it with most insurance companies for lowering points? Same as with the state record on the license?

quadro2000

IMHO, it always pays to plead "not guilty" to a ticket and go to court. I received two tickets - one for running a stop sign, one for doing 54 in a 35. For both of them, I pleaded not guilty, showed up for court in my best suit, talked to everyone politely, didn't speak out of turn, acted and reacted responsibly, and wound up with two relatively expensive parking tickets (no points) instead. It was like going back to antiquated 1930s manners, but it was worth it to not have the points. Unless you're an asshole when you get to court, it usually can't get much worse than what the ticket was for in the first place.

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jw_toyboy

A little advice for the Australians in here, particuarlly Victorians. When you get pinged for speeding you get a fine and lose points. The trick to do is if your fine is $120 send a check for $121. They will send you a check back for $1 DO NOT CASH IT. See the trick is you onlly lose your points once the fine has been paid correctlly. So you have paid the fine... you cant get in further trouble for not paying and you dont lose your points.
I know from personal experience that this does work, in Victoria at least. I got the tip off an uncle of mine who was a highway cop untill a few months back.

Happy driving

Mael

for people who've gotten lucky and had the officer not show up, great. but... the officer doesn't have to show up. if they can't make it, they can sign an affidavit (sp?) beforehand and that works in place of their showing up. so it's not gaurenteed.