Nearly 300000 Wash. Drivers Suspended For Failure To Pay Tickets
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BURIEN, Wash. – In Washington, nearly 300,000 drivers currently have suspended licenses -– not because they've driven drunk or committed a hit-and-run, but because they failed to pay their traffic tickets.
You're about to meet three of them. Like a lot of people in their situation, they continued to drive. And that has led to more tickets, more debt and even jail.
But drivers who want to clear their debts and get their licenses back must run a gauntlet that includes collection agents and a patchwork system of courts.
Brandon Stowers sits on a wooden bench outside a King County District courtroom in Burien. He's here for relicensing court. It's a special court for people who have lost their driver's license because of unpaid traffic tickets.
Stowers says his troubles started when he stuffed a ticket in his glove box.
"That's exactly what happened," Stowers says. "I put it in my glove compartment and forgot all about it."
That was several years -– and several tickets -– ago. Now Stowers — an unemployed father of three — has come to relicensing court to begin to dig out from a mess he admits he got himself into.
"It's very, very, very important (that you get your license back)," Stowers stresses. "I need my license back bad."
Relicensing Court is Stowers' best hope. Like drug court, it's a diversion program for people who have been stopped by a cop while driving on a license that was suspended for failure to pay traffic tickets.
It's called driving while suspended in the third degree. The prosecutor agrees to hold off filing a criminal charge if the defendant agrees to a repayment plan.
"We understand that some people get themselves so far into debt that getting out of debt is extremely difficult," says Maggie Nave, head of the District Court unit of the King County Prosecutor's office.
She says relicensing court frees up prosecutors for more serious cases. But it also gives a suspended driver a way to get their license back sooner.
"After he has started to make some payments, then the holds on his license are released by the court," Nave explains. "And that means he can get his license reissued while he's paying off his tickets."
That's exactly what 22-year old Sandy Seak is counting on. She recently got stopped for driving on a suspended license and for no insurance.
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BY Mecklenburg County Traffic Tickets
If you accumulate twelve (12 ) or more points within a (3) three-year period, the DMV may suspend your license. The first suspension of your driver’s license under the point system shall be for no more then 60 days. The second suspension shall not exceed 6 months and any subsequent suspension shall not exceed one year. If you are in danger of losing your license because you have accumulated too many driver’s license points, the NC DMV may allow you to attend the Driver Improvement Clinic and have three points removed from your record. This, however, does not remove the points from your insurance. You can only take this Driver Improvement Course once every 5 years.
· Manslaughter or negligent homicide
· Prearranged highway racing or lending a car for prearranged highway racing
· Hit-and-run resulting in bodily injury or death
· Driving with a blood-alcohol level of .08 or more
· Driving commercial vehicle with a blood-alcohol level of .04 or more
· Driving while impaired
· Transporting illegal intoxicating liquor for sale
· Illegal passing
· Following too closely
· Driving on wrong side ofthe road
· At-fault accident resulting in total property damage (including damage to Insured’s own property) in excess of $1,800 but less than $3, 000
· Speeding more than 10 mph over the speed limit provided the total speed is in excess
· of 55 mph, but less than 76 mph
· Speeding 10 mph or less in excess of speed zone of 55 mph or greater
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