Receiving a traffic ticket can be a significant inconvenience, and many drivers would rather dispense with the matter by paying the fine. But far too few drivers consider how a traffic ticket may affect them later. Points could be added to your record, your driving privileges may be jeopardized, and you could end up paying higher insurance premiums.
Our firm has extensive experience handling all types of traffic tickets. We know the potential consequences that a ticket could have for your life, and what it takes to achieve the best possible outcome. Find out why so many Oneida County drivers trust New York Traffic Ticket Lawyers.
How We Help Our Clients
It can be tempting to plead guilty to a traffic ticket and pay the penalty. Unfortunately, this does not necessarily mean the end of your financial and legal troubles. In serious cases you could be facing license suspension or revocation, even jail time. The reality is that you do have options, and our firm can help you better understand them.
When you retain New York Traffic Ticket Lawyers, we get to work leveraging our thorough understanding of traffic laws and the workings of the court system. Although law enforcement officers are seen as having the upper hand in any traffic matter, the fact is that receiving a ticket does not mean you will be convicted of the alleged offense. We will adopt a carefully devised legal strategy to protect your rights and interests, including through trial if necessary.
One possible approach is to negotiate with prosecutors to seek a resolution that results in fewer points and penalties. It may be possible to work out a deal in which charges are reduced – and, with it, the financial and legal burden of the ticket. In some cases it is possible to have the ticket dismissed entirely due to unreliable evidence or violations of the driver’s rights.
You do not want to simply plead guilty to a ticket and hope for the best. Points, penalties, restrictions, fines, and higher insurance premiums could be in your future if you do. You owe it to yourself to learn more about alternatives and how our firm can help you attain a more favorable result.
Types of Traffic Tickets We Handle
If you have received one of the following types of traffic tickets in Oneida County, our firm is prepared to assist you:
- Speeding: The greater the amount over the speed limit you drive, the more points get added to your driving record, putting your ability to drive at risk.
- Driving without insurance: Operating a motor vehicle without the minimum amount of liability insurance is a serious infraction, as is producing a falsified insurance card.
- Driving without an inspection certificate: This ticket is for operating or parking an automobile without a certificate of inspection on New York public roads.
- Driving an unregistered vehicle: Your vehicle must be properly registered before you can drive or park it on state highways and roads.
- Driving without a valid license: If your license is suspended or revoked, or you operate a commercial vehicle without the correct endorsements, you could be ticketed.
- Aggravated unlicensed operation: This ticket is for knowingly operating a vehicle without a valid driver’s license.
- Unlawfully passing a school bus: Drivers must stop for school buses that approach from any direction with flashing red lights, whether on public or private roads.
- Following too closely: Also known as tailgating, this means following a vehicle more closely than is safe and reasonable, considering highway conditions, speed, and traffic.
- Operating with inadequate brakes: Your vehicle’s brakes must be in proper working order or you could receive a ticket.
- Failure to yield at an intersection: Drivers must yield the right of way to vehicles that have entered the intersection from a different highway.
- Failure to yield to emergency vehicles: When approaching or in the vicinity of an emergency vehicle with flashing lights and audible signals, a driver should pull over, stop, and let the vehicle pass.
- Failure to yield to pedestrians: When pedestrians cross the road within a crosswalk, whether or not traffic signals are in place or in operation, motorists must yield.
- Disobeying traffic signals and red lights: Failure to obey traffic signals and red lights is an infraction and potential hazard to other drivers.
- Disobeying stop signs and yield signs: Every driver is expected to obey stop signs and follow yielding requirements at yield signs.
- Improper passing: Only under certain conditions can drivers pass other vehicles, and certainly not over double yellow lines.
- Improper or unsafe lane changes: Even if a driver can legally pass another vehicle, it must be safely done without violating traffic laws (e.g. speeding)
- Leaving the scene of a property damage accident: Parties involved in an accident resulting in property damage must stop and exchange information with each other.
- Failure to keep right: A driver should drive only on the right half of the road except under certain circumstances like passing another vehicle.
- Child safety restraint violations: Children who are under eight years of age should be restrained in an appropriate child restraint device.
- Seat belt violations: Driving, riding as a front seat passenger, or riding as a back seat passenger aged 16 or older requires a proper safety belt.
- Cell phone violations: Driving while holding a cellular phone to engage in a call is a violation.
- Portable electronic device use violations: Similarly, using portable electronic devices (e.g. laptops) while driving is illegal.
Common Traffic Ticket Penalties
Our firm works to avoid or minimize the following traffic ticket penalties:
- Fines: You may have to pay a fine if you are ticketed for one of the above traffic violations in Oneida County. The amount of the ticket will depend on how serious the violation is. Higher speeds, for instance, generally translate to higher fines.
- Points: Different traffic offenses result in different amounts of points being added to your driving record. If you accumulate too many points you may incur additional penalties, such as having to pay extra fines.
- Higher insurance premiums: Your automobile liability insurance rates will almost certainly go up after receiving a ticket. This extra cost may last several years. If you receive certain penalties as a result of a ticket, like a revoked license, your insurer will likely cancel your policy.
- License suspension and revocation: More significant traffic offenses, or accumulating too many points in a short time period, could cause your driver’s license to be suspended or revoked. If your license is revoked you will have to apply for a new license after a certain amount of time.
- Jail: Serious offenses like driving under the influence of alcohol could land you in jail. Although it is less common for relatively minor infractions, repeated violations might result in a jail sentence.
Why Hire NY Traffic Ticket Lawyers?
When you retain our firm to handle your traffic ticket, we get to work immediately by:
- Reviewing and investigating the circumstances of your ticket
- Informing you of the potential legal consequences of your ticket
- Identifying errors, mistakes, and inconsistencies made by law enforcement
- Analyzing dashcam and surveillance camera footage
- Challenging incorrectly calibrated and inaccurate speed detection equipment
- Organizing and submitting legal documents and evidence on your behalf
- Negotiating and working out a plea bargain with the prosecutors
- Exploring alternatives to traffic penalties such as driving courses
- Arguing for reduced fines and for alternative sentencing
- Working for a reduction or dismissal of charges as circumstances allow
- Representing you in traffic court hearings and trials
- Helping you restore your license or lift a suspension
- Requesting a conditional or restricted driver’s license to allow you to drive in limited cases
Contact Our Oneida County Traffic Ticket Attorneys
Tickets can be stressful, but fortunately you have options that could save you time, money, and legal and personal problems down the road. Learn more about them by speaking with New York Traffic Ticket Lawyers. You can call and schedule your confidential consultation today.
