Traffic tickets can be a lot more expensive than the fine and court costs stated on the ticket. For most traffic tickets, if you just pay off the ticket, you will be convicted of the charge, and you will be assessed points both on your driver’s license and on your insurance policy. Insurance points can be very expensive. They cause your insurance premiums to increase for three years, and for most policies, that will add up to thousands of dollars. Details about insurance points and the percentage of premium increases can be found here. In addition to insurance points, convictions for many charges, and convictions for multiple charges will result in the revocation of your driver’s license. The loss of one’s driving privilege entails more costs for most people.  Here are some examples of revocations for convictions.

In this great recession, many people are being short sighted and think they are saving money by not hiring an experienced attorney to represent them with their traffic charges. The result is that the ticket costs them much more than they would have paid an attorney to handle it for them.

Collins Law Firm has handled thousands of traffic tickets for our clients over the past ten plus years, and in most cases we have been able to avoid insurance points altogether. Furthermore, for most simple tickets (stop sign violations, speeding violations, etc.), our clients do not even need to go to court. We offer free phone consultations for most traffic matters. If you need advice or information about representation for a traffic violation, call us at: 910-793-9000.

In this great recession, many people are trying to save money. Almost every day, we see people going to court without an attorney and making terrible mistakes which will affect them for the rest of their lives. They are being convicted of crimes and infractions which will stay on their records forever, and costing them money in fines, costs and other expenses; and for traffic offenses, causing insurance premium increases.

In most of these cases, if they had competent legal representation, these consequences very likely could have been avoided. For example, for most traffic charges which are moving convictions, a conviction will result in a thousand dollars or more insurance premium increases over a three year period, and these costs could have been avoided for a few hundred dollars in attorney fees.

If you have a pending court date in New Hanover, Brunswick, or Pender Counties, call Collins Law Firm at 910-793-9000 to discuss how we can help and what our fees would be.