Getting a traffic ticket is sure a big blow on your safety driving status but a bigger headache is when you get points on the driving record. Beware as by accumulating more points can lead to more bigger problems like getting your ticket suspended. Yes, getting your license suspended is easy if you have accessed points on your driving record within a certain amount of time.
What more points can do?
When you accumulate points, you are in placing yourself in grave danger of losing your privilege to drive. The MVC or DMV has the right to suspend your license or revoke your privilege to drive. Moreover, you also need to worry about your auto insurance rates. The insurance agencies keep a constant eye on your driving record. When you have amassed points, you pay more rates than the rest. This law is even stricter when the driver is young.
How points are accumulated
The numeric value of the point depends on the seriousness of the offense you have conducted. You get 2 points if you fail to keep right at an interjection, 3 points more at an improper turning at the traffic light, 4 points for passing at a no passing zone, speeding even with tailgating or leaving an accident scene when there is an injury involved.
In Florida, you license can get suspended for 30 days if your points reach 12 within a year, three months suspension for 18 points in 18 months, 1 year suspending for 24 points within 36 month period. So when you know how accumulating points can have a dramatic result, you ought to do something. Lowering the point is of course the better solution but the thing is how you do it. The points you have collected will appear on the permanent driver history. The point totals may go down if you do not get another traffic ticket in times. Three points can be deducted each year from your total if you remain violation free.
There is also other means to get the points deducted from you driving record sooner. Attending point reduction course from the online traffic schools can help you to reduce two points from the totals. Enrolling in the driver improvement program will get you 3 points off your license. By joining the defensive driving course, every five years will have 2 points removed from your record.