September 1, 2013 • ARIZONA,
CALIFORNIA,
DELAWARE,
DUI,
GEORGIA,
INSURANCE,
LOUISIANA,
MARYLAND,
MICHIGAN,
RED LIGHT CAMERA,
RHODE ISLAND,
SCHOOL BUS,
SPEEDING,
TICKET FINES,
TRAFFIC CAMERA,
TRAFFIC RECORD Traffic courts and prosecutors know that many traffic defendants will happily plead guilty and pay the fine as long as no points appear on their driving record. The court exacts its pound of flesh and the driver keeps a clean record. Everybody wins, right? Not always. A former school teacher from Georgia emailed us with […]
January 6, 2013 • COLORADO,
CONNECTICUT,
DELAWARE,
Driver's License,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
GEORGIA,
INDIANA,
IOWA,
MARYLAND,
NEWSLETTER,
OHIO,
PRIVACY,
Real ID,
SOUTH DAKOTA,
TENNESSEE,
WEST VIRGINIA,
WISCONSIN,
WYOMING Just before the holidays, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a press release commending the states that have met the requirements of the Real ID Act of 2005 for driver’s licenses and identification cards. In the wake of 9/11, you wil…
May 6, 2012 • DUI,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
GEORGIA,
ILLINOIS,
LICENSE,
MICHIGAN,
NEW JERSEY,
NEWSLETTER,
SPEEDING,
SUPER SPEEDER,
TICKET FIGHTING,
TICKET FINES,
TRAFFIC STOP What’s at stake when you get a traffic ticket? A fine. Maybe a couple of points on your license. Pay up and move on, right? What if you found out later that you had to pay an additional penalty due to the nature of your infraction? Would you have …
When it is mentioned that Georgia conducts over 10,000 roadblocks per year, people may naturally assume this is a statistic from the former Soviet country that sits on the southern border of Russia. After all, there can’t be that many roadblocks s…
March 30, 2010 • CALIFORNIA,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
GEORGIA,
ILLINOIS,
NEWSLETTER,
RED LIGHT CAMERA,
SHORT YELLOW LIGHT,
SPEED LIMIT,
TEXAS,
TICKET REVENUE,
TRAFFIC CAMERA,
YELLOW LIGHT,
YELLOW LIGHT TIMING The Magic of Yellow Or, perhaps the title should be, “The Magic of Time.” All it takes to expose the fallacy of red-light camera programs is 0.5 to 1.5 seconds. About the time it takes you to swallow a gulp of water. Less time than it takes to twe…
