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A break on your traffic ticket?

By Glen Ashman

TRAFFIC VIOLATION DISMISSALS AGAIN

ARE LINKED TO FUTURE CRASH RISK

Drivers whose traffic violations are dismissed by courts following completion of traffic violator school are more likely to be in another crash within a year than drivers whose convictions remain on their driving records, reports a California Department of Motor Vehicles study that updates a prior DMV study on the same topic.   In California and other states, judges have the option of allowing violators to attend traffic violator schools in exchange for having citations dismissed. No points are assessed and the violation is removed from the driver's public record. In the California program, points for a second violation also may be removed by attending traffic school but, this time, the dismissal appears on the driver's record.  California drivers who accumulate 4 points in 1 year are deemed "negligent operators" subject to license control actions. People who complete traffic school are able to avoid about 15,000 license suspension/probation actions and about 6,000 probation violator sanctions each year in California. 

For more information, click on: http://www.iihs.org/sr/pdfs/sr4305.pdf

Full post as published by It's (Barely) Legal on July 15, 2008 (boomark / email).