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Let a Troy Traffic Ticket Defense Attorney Explain Your Options
Traffic tickets in Michigan can be far more serious than they might seem to an otherwise responsible driver, and even more serious for those who have a poor traffic violation history. Still, the personal damage they cause can be mitigated with the right assistance and knowledge of a Troy traffic ticket defense attorney.
Many Michiganders accept their traffic ticket, plead guilty and pay their fines, or submit to other punishments because it’s just easier. Legislators have consciously drawn up the law in a way that encourages this meek submission so that their law enforcement resources can be applied elsewhere and because it keeps a steady influx of income.
A Troy traffic ticket defense attorney at Hermiz Law can help you beat your ticket or at least mitigate the violation and attendant punishments, the most important of which are those tickets that affect your insurance rates.
About Michigan’s Point System for Traffic Violations
Michigan, like many other states, employs a point system for determining traffic violation punishments. In Michigan, every point counts and can add up to license suspensions and revocations, all in addition to state-imposed fees. Once points have been added to your record after a conviction, they can’t be removed for two years, and may drastically raise your insurance rates. For these reasons, you should take every alleged traffic violation seriously and speak with a Troy traffic ticket defense attorney to review all of your legal options.
Every time you are convicted of a traffic violation, you will have to pay court fines, some of which are outrageously high, plus costs. Furthermore, points may be posted to your driver record. Under the point system in Michigan, each traffic violation has a point value, which is set by law in the Michigan Vehicle Code. Points are added by numbers that are supposed to reflect the seriousness of the violation.
- Two points are added for violations such as driving ten m.p.h. or less over the legal speed limit, having an open container of alcohol in the vehicle, all other moving violations of traffic laws, and refusing to take a Preliminary Breath Test (PBT) by anyone under age 21.
- Three points are added for violations such as careless driving, disobeying a traffic signal/sign, improper passing, driving 11 through 15 m.p.h. over the legal speed limit, failure to stop at a railroad crossing, failure to stop for a school bus, and for disobeying a school crossing guard.
- Four points are added for violations such as drag racing, operating while visibly impaired, driving while under age 21 with any bodily alcohol content, driving six m.p.h. or more over the legal speed limit, and failing to yield or show caution for emergency vehicles.
- Six points are added for violations such as manslaughter, negligent homicide, or other felonies involving the use of a motor vehicle, operating under the influence of liquor or drugs, failing to stop and give identification at the scene of an accident, reckless driving, unlawful bodily alcohol content of 0.08 or more, refusal to take a chemical test, and fleeing or eluding a police officer.
Let a Troy Traffic Ticket Defense Attorney at Hermiz Law Help You Beat or Minimize Your Traffic Ticket
By contacting a Troy traffic ticket defense attorney at Hermiz Law, you can beat or seriously minimize your punishments for traffic violations. We’ll help you through the process and represent you to the traffic court. For a consultation with an attorney, contact a Troy traffic ticket defense attorney. We return all messages within one day.