Steven J. Richardson | March 19, 2010
Most people don’t realize the impact that guilty pleas to traffic tickets can have down the road. The figure they paid their fines, took their medicine, and it is over. Unfortunately, that is not always true. The situation to which I refer is where a traffic ticket is issued as a result of an accident. [...]
Steven J. Richardson | March 16, 2010
Many people contact my office with a speeding ticket or other traffic offense that carries motor vehicle points looking to avoid them, if possible. The solution is the “unsafe operation” statute, but ironically, that is not the only (or necessarily best) course of action. Believe it or not, sometimes taking the hit on the points [...]
Steven J. Richardson | February 5, 2010
Many of us, I am sure, have a bad habit of hanging things from our rear view mirrors. I am not talking about parking garage passes and smaller items; I mean those things that hang down a ways from the mirror itself. This can be a problem. New Jersey law, under NJSA 39:3-74, states that [...]
Steven J. Richardson | November 11, 2009
In a June 11, 2009, post, I talked about a “gotcha” that existed in a New Jersey statute used to avoid points on certain traffic violations. The law itself said that motorists could plea to “Unsafe Operation” two times in a five year period and avoid the assessment of points against their license by the [...]
Steven J. Richardson | October 30, 2009
Better make sure that your car has its snow brush, scraper, and de-icing spray ready to go this winter! On October 20, Governor Corzine signed into law some amendments to New Jersey’s Motor Vehicle Code that will create a new offense of operating a motor vehicle with accumulated snow or ice . This includes all [...]