Don’t drink and drive; I have stressed this for as long as I have been a traffic ticket attorney. It’s never worth the risk – not worth risking injury to yourself or someone else, and it’s not worth the penalties that you can incur if you are convicted of this [...]
I have made my feelings explicitly clear about getting red light cameras tossed out of Florida, and recently we were thiiiiisssss close. Just when so many of us who drive in Miami-Dade thought that we could breathe a sigh of relief at the thought of these money pits getting the [...]
“It Was an Accident!” Have you ever wondered if you have something in common with Beyoncé? Wonder no more! Queen B once exclaimed, “It was an accident” in Carmen: A Hip Hopera and if you drive or have driven in the State of Florida, you probably have too. Unfortunately, [...]
Do you remember when you were a kid and got in trouble at school? It seemed like we were always being threatened with action that would end up on our “permanent record.” Personally, the finality of how that sounded scared me to the point that I would usually behave…for a [...]
I can’t begin to count the number of times that I have been told, “I have never gotten a speeding ticket.” My usual response is something along the lines of, “Just wait.” Statistical averages would indicate that you are likely to get a traffic ticket every two years, and when [...]
Whether you are a native to South Florida or someone who has moved here to enjoy the beaches, warmth, and other benefits of the Sunshine State, it doesn’t take more than a season or two to realize that we get A LOT of rain here. Whether its hurricane season or [...]
There are few things that elicit the emotions associated with getting pulled over by a cop. Most of us were raised with a certain amount of respect for police officers. There was a time when we thought of every cop as Officer Friendly, but unfortunately, those days are long behind [...]
Advertising – it’s a great way to reach people when it works, but there is such a thing as overkill. Such is the case with the volumes of commercials you see broadcast throughout South Florida for traffic ticket attorneys, as well as other attorneys. With all of these commercials, it’s [...]
There are many milestones in a kid’s life, but learning to drive and more importantly, getting a driver’s license is a rite of passage. For most people, this is an indicator of traversing from childhood into adulthood and represents the first real taste of freedom they experience. Of course, this [...]
Florida Considering Speed Limit Increase: Reward for Responsible Citizenship? As any regular reader of my blog knows, I find speeding tickets particularly egregious. Speed traps, ticket quotas, those sneaky cops that hide behind bushes – they are part of the State of Florida’s traffic ticket grist mill that continues to spew [...]