When you receive a ticket in North Carolina, depending on your age, the severity of your speed and how clean your record is, the District Attorney may only be willing to reduce your ticket down if you complete a driving course. The type of course required can vary based on the county you received your ticket. Driving schools can range from 4-hour online courses, to 8-hour in person classes, and ...

Many North Carolina drivers are unfamiliar with the vast number of traffic violations that they can be charged with. It truly is baffling, sometimes. Some charges can sound fairly simple but can actually be very serious in the eyes of the court. Others seem similar, but actually carry very different consequences. Two charges of this nature are ‘No Operators License’ and ‘Driving While License Revoked’. These two charges get confused ...

When non-North Carolina drivers receive a traffic ticket in this state, they can be confused on the best way to handle the matter. Many are told by police officers to just pay the ticket off online. However, drivers should keep in mind that police officers are not trained in traffic law, and, even with good intentions, are not trained attorneys and often don't give sound legal advice. 

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While logically, you don’t stand out as easily as a car zipping by traffic at unreasonably fast speeds, you’re able to get a speeding ticket even if you are driving with the flow of traffic. Officers can pull over a line of cars at one time, or single your car out. Either way, you can be cited. Use reason. If you’re driving with the flow of traffic ...

It is common for many drivers to believe that when they receive a speeding ticket, there is a high chance it can be dismissed. These circumstances can be but are not limited to:

• Following traffic
  
• Driving a rental car
  
• Speeding up to pass semi-trailers
  
• Not knowing road signs had changed
  
• Speed not being recorded by radar
  
• Clerical errors on the citation
  

Now while these so seem like valid reasons for ...