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 [...]
I am a traffic ticket attorney; it’s what I do and there is a reason that I do it. I practice traffic ticket law because I see so many people who receive traffic tickets that are frivolous and often arbitrary. Let’s just call it what it is - dumb. Many [...]
It has been a while since I wrote about what to do when you get pulled over by the cops for a traffic ticket. Although I have posted several blogs about the topic, it seems that even my friends are not getting the message. Let me explain. My friend Adam [...]
Emergency Vehicles – A Matter of Common Sense I can’t tell you how often I have been driving on a divided highway when I see an emergency vehicle approaching from the opposite direction, and at least one other driver panics because they are unsure of what to do. We all [...]
IS YOUR FLORIDA TRAFFIC TICKET A FELONY OR MISDEMEANOR? I have been a traffic ticket attorney for nearly 20 years and over the course of those two decades, there has been one nearly constant piece of advice that I have given people who receive a traffic ticket: Yes, you should [...]
There are hundreds of reasons that you may be given a traffic ticket in South Florida and some are more serious than others. The one thing that they all have in common is they are costly. I have previously written about such costs in relation to fines and insurance rates, [...]
Motorcycles vs. Cars For as long as motorcycles and cars have travelled together on the roadways, there has existed contention between some who ride motorcycles and some who don’t. There are those of us who have been riding motorcycles for years and do so responsibly; I have been riding for [...]
Are You One of Those Drivers? Don’t judge me yet! I know it may not be very nice to start off this blog by referring to other drivers as annoying, but for those of us who drive in South Florida, we all know that they ARE out there. It’s not [...]
It comes as no surprise to anyone who lives, or at least drives, in Miami-Dade County that this is home to some of the worst drivers in the state, and possibly the country. When looking at data regarding traffic accidents in South Florida, the disparity between counties is astounding. Between [...]