If you commit a traffic offense in North Carolina, an officer will issue you a traffic ticket. You’ll have to appear in court by the date printed on the ticket and make your case before a district court judge. The traffic ticket process can be tedious, but you can...
Traffic Violations
How speeding can lead to losing your right to drive
If you speed while driving in North Carolina, you will want to drive slower in the future. That is because you can lose the right to drive if you get two tickets within one year. It is a shock to many drivers in North Carolina how easy it is to lose driving...
What happens if the police catch you driving with a revoked license?
Drivers in North Carolina can have their license revoked or suspended for a variety of reasons. Some drivers continue to drive after this happens. What happens if they get caught? Reasons the state may revoke or suspend your license There are many reasons the state...
How will a reckless driving citation affect your future?
You may think that once you pay the fine for a charge of reckless driving you put the incident in the rearview mirror. However, the state of North Carolina takes traffic violations seriously. That reckless driving citation has consequences that can follow you into the...
Does my state have the worst drivers?
Car accidents happen all the time in North Carolina, but that does not mean that this state has drivers who worse than other states. There is a lot of information about accidents, including what causes them and who is most likely to get into them. There are also...
Will I go to jail for DWI in North Carolina?
North Carolina treats driving while impaired as a misdemeanor with five separate penalty levels from V, the least severe, to I, the most severe. Every level carries a mandatory minimum jail sentence, starting with 24 hours to 60 days for a first-time offender....
The consequences of speeding can be more severe than a ticket
Busy lifestyles have become the norm. People seem to always be rushing around to bring their kids to school, go to work, pick up the kids, go to the grocery store, and complete all the little errands that must be done in between. Having a busy lifestyle can be...
Was your speeding ticket based on a radar gun? Challenge it
As you drove down the road, you may have seen the patrol car too late. You looked down at your speedometer and realized that you may have been driving over the speed limit. The radar gun was prominently poking out of the window of the patrol car, and you suspected...
New laws for cells behind the wheel
People are slowly catching on about the risks they are taking when they text and drive. Hardly a week goes by that the news does not report a tragic story of a young mother killed by a driver texting, a child in a crosswalk run over by a distracted driver or a teen...
What happens if you get moving violations on a provisional license or learner’s permit?
First, in North Carolina, there is a three-tier graduated system for obtaining one's full driver's license. The graduation is as follows: Level 1 - Limited Learner's Permit - beginning at age 15, you can obtain a limited learner's permit. You must drive with a...