Got a speeding ticket near the Dumbarton bridge. Please advise.
06-22-2000, 01:03 PM
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What I should have said is "...It's The People's Republic of Czechoslafornia."
They don't forget, and they can be total bastards about it.
06-22-2000, 02:12 PM
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Are both from the same county?
If your current ticket is not issued from the same county as your last, you MAYBE lucky enough to have the 2 counties NOT share the same database. If this is the case, you can ask for traffic school since the the county issuing the ticket does not know you have attended traffic school within 18 months.
06-22-2000, 03:03 PM
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You should be able to ask the commissioner (judge) for traffic school.
It's up to you if you'd rather plead "not guilty" and fight the cop or ask the judge for traffic school + $$$ fine instead. I'm going to have to make that choice myself in a couple weeks.
As far as I know, in California, if you do traffic school + fine, it does NOT go onto your insurance record as anything. As far as your insurance is concerned, the ticket never happened. However, the traffic violation does still show up on your DMV record regardless... it will just have a note that you opted for traffic school or some such.
Best of luck.
As far as I know, in California, if you do traffic school + fine, it does NOT go onto your insurance record as anything. As far as your insurance is concerned, the ticket never happened. However, the traffic violation does still show up on your DMV record regardless... it will just have a note that you opted for traffic school or some such.
Best of luck.
06-22-2000, 03:50 PM
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I'm no expert...
...but from what I gather, the insurance companies can't count traffic school tickets against you, since they effectively did not happen according to the system. i believe that by "dmv record" they were referring to what the cops see when they punch up your driver's license on their onboard computers. *shrug*
perhaps there is someone in the forums who is more savvy about these details who can clear this up.
perhaps there is someone in the forums who is more savvy about these details who can clear this up.
06-22-2000, 04:58 PM
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It's been a while but I seem to remember the 2nd ticket "unmasks" the 1st...
I believe this is how the system works:
Tickets that are "traffic school"ed are "blocked" from your "official" DMV record. This means when your insurance agent pulls it up, it does not show, but when the cops or DMV does, it does.
However, if I remember my CA rules correctly, if you then get a SECOND ticket within 18 months, not only does the new ticket show up, the previous ticket is then "unmasked," so you instantly go from having zero tickets on your record to having two...
Tickets that are "traffic school"ed are "blocked" from your "official" DMV record. This means when your insurance agent pulls it up, it does not show, but when the cops or DMV does, it does.
However, if I remember my CA rules correctly, if you then get a SECOND ticket within 18 months, not only does the new ticket show up, the previous ticket is then "unmasked," so you instantly go from having zero tickets on your record to having two...