You’re driving along and thinking about a dozen other things than your driving. Suddenly you see blue lights behind you and you immediately think, “Oh, no. What did I do?” Now, if this happened to you 20 years ago, you may not have been full of dread at being pulled [...]
We all know that when you get pulled over, the police officer runs a check on your license plate to make sure your tag isn’t expired or that the car is not stolen. Those little stickers that we get every year can cause a lot of trouble if not updated. [...]
Driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, even over-the-counter or prescription drugs, continues to be a major issue in the state of Florida, and it should be. I won’t bore you with statistics about how many serious injuries or fatalities occur in South Florida every year as a result [...]
No Cop, No Stop | Wait! What’s that in the Bushes? As most Broward County residents know, the use of red light traffic cameras is hotly debated. Local governments profit from them and many drivers are screwed over by them. As prolific as these traffic camera tickets are, the second [...]
I am a traffic ticket attorney. That has been my chosen profession for more than 15 years, and I will defend drivers for any type of traffic citation although there are some laws that I agree with such as not texting while driving. Even though this is a secondary offense, [...]
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 [...]