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I heard you have to take that AFTER you get points. It will not prevent points. And you can only take it a within a certain interval of time. So if you take it right before you get a load of points, you are going to have to wait a while before you can take it again.
I have experience with this after getting a ticket. My lawyer said to take it but it turned out to be pointless because I was not at the 11pt limit. After I took the course I brought the proof to the DMV and they said they can't do anything since I'm only at 4 (or was it 6) pts. So you should only be taking it if you are at the point where it would put you over. Or you can do it for the discount regardless if not already active the last 3 years.
Taking a defensive driving course will give you savings on insurance OR ...
UP TO 4 Points on your license. If you have zero, you can't bank it. If you have 2, it would got to zero. If you have 4, you would go to zero...and so on. Waiting until 11 points is untrue.
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PS: This message is written by a woman and I never harass my husband stalking his whereabouts and timing him on his way home by calling to demand "status" on the cellphone.
Of course you don't, you take it out on the CD posters instead :-)
There is a lot of scaming, stalking for profit by scpd.The entire county, government is in cahoots with eachother.Cops, judges, sheriffs it is rampant harrassment and extortion.
My former spouse, is a perpetrater of financial fraud, for Suffolk County Police Officers,Judges, lawyers etc.
They have bern colluding with eachother for more than a decade.Setting first my sons, to be pulled over, given tickets, having their licenses suspended, being arrested.
I have boxes of tickets, accident reports, police reports etc.That when it began happening to me.Big mistake to involve me, no Dummy, that is going to pay some corrupt judge presiding over corrupt court.No.zi am going to fight and expose this in any way I possibly can.
Thank God for new blog COP BLOCK
Re:Myself and my adult children, we have been being given Police Reports, traffic tickets, accident and arrest reports.That are being written off site, by my non police officer ex.husband.The entire thing a scam, run behind the scenes by mentally disturbed psychopath, who has power over them.Power because ex.is mastermind crook, rewards many of his foot soldiers scpd , lawyers the judges with satisfied mortgages in exchange for violating his own family.SICKOS all of them.
Sorry to bump an old thread but this really irks me. Everyone (no one's perfect) makes a driving mistake occasionally. I've had two experiences at the Hauppauge traffic court: I was following my GPS to get somewhere while on the Expressway, when the exit suddenly came up, so I cut over three lanes to get off at the exit. There were no cars around me, although a cop van a distance back, and pulled me over on the exit ramp. I got a ticket for making an unsafe lane change (the cop also seemed to think I was stoned even though I really wasn't, but didn't even really seem to care that much). I show up to court and the options were 3 points with a $200 fine, 2 points with a $300 fine, and 0 points with a $500 fine. Taking my parents advice I took the 0 points, $500 option. Half a thousand dollars because I cut over too many lanes when no cars were anywhere near me. Second time about a year later I took the HOV lane during rush hour while I was by myself to avoid traffic and got pulled over within 20 seconds of being in the HOV lane (yes, I should not have done this and am not saying I don't deserve a punishment). The 0 points option was a $660 fine, which I reluctantly took. I understand driving mistakes are bad and should not be tolerated, but how does stealing (and yes, I do consider it stealing) $660 from me make them any better? I never put anyone in danger in either situation, again I know I did wrong but I feel as if a better system would be to just assign points to your license without a fine if you plead/are found guilty, and once you get a certain number of points, your license is suspended. This would help keep unsafe richer drivers off the road, and poorer drivers would have more of an incentive to not get points on their license so that they could continue getting to their job (assuming they have one). Once again driving violations are dangerous and should not be tolerated, but giving out MASSIVE fines for insignificant mistakes is ridiculous and much worse than the driving mistakes being punished. And the fact that pigs are actually praised in the precinct house for giving out the most tickets disgusts me.
On the flip side, my only other ticket I've ever received occurred in Southampton (within the town court's boundaries, so it was handled by the Southampton town court). There was a long, straight stretch of road, and being 19 and stupid with a new sports car I floored it and got up to about 103mph. All of a sudden I see a cop next to me, and when I slow down he pulls up behind me and tells me he clocked me at 113mph (the radar gun was off a bit, I guess). I was sitting in the car waiting for the ticket expecting my license to get suspended on the spot, when the cop comes back and tells me he's giving me a ticket for going 81mph in a 55mph zone. I was grateful, and when I got to Southampton court I noticed a bunch of people had 81 in a 55 tickets (a later online search revealed that it is against state trooper rules to chase after extreme speeders, so when they do, they reduce the speed so that they won't get in trouble). My punishment there was a $175 fine. Even without knowing the true speed I was going, I wouldn't have complained if I had gotten a larger fine. I never even really crack 80mph anymore. This was my first ticket too, so I just found it so backwards when I show up to the Hauppauge court and receive over double and now over triple that fine for infractions that didn't put anyone in danger.
I've only been driving for 3 years, but being basically the only one of my friends who drives (and I hang out with friends every night), commuting to college, and driving all over the island (almost literally) on a nightly basis because my dad basically doesn't let me pay for gas money, I've probably driven the same amount of miles the average 27-30-year old has driven in their life time. And again, I do regret my mistakes (the speeding and the HOV lane one, the other one I didn't even know or do I still even know if it was illegal), but overall I am a pretty cautious driver and have been told so by many people. And it's stressful constantly being the only one of my friends that drives. Constant designated driver, ect. And the average driver probably breaks at least 1 or 2 laws every single day, it really just depends on who gets caught and is forced to supply the local precinct with their doughnut party. The Hauppauge traffic court is basically a criminal enterprise with the amount of fines that they put on you and in my opinion is much worse than "dangerous" drivers (I'm not talking about DWI drivers or texting and driving-ers). Sorry for the rant, but I just can't believe that they're actually able to get away with doing this to people. There were literally about a hundred people there the times I was there, and to think of how much money they are making off of all of these people is disgusting.
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