[s-cars] Tagged

[Mike Sylvester]

Lee,

MA also has a forgiveness factor.  If your driver points are a 9 or 10
and have not had a violation in the last 2 years, the ticket will not
add any points.
The MA points system starts at 15.  Fore every incident free year you
loose 1 point, 9 being the lowest you can get.

Mike

www.urq20v.com

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Tagged
> From: Lee Levitt <lee at wheelman.com>
> Date: Wed, April 01, 2009 6:41 pm
> To: Mike Sylvester <mike at urq20v.com>, djdawson2 at aol.com
> Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
> 
> 
> From my reading of the various state documents, a first offense 
> brings 2 points on the license, whether I was doing 66 or 90. My 
> insurance won't go up based on that first offense, as long as I 
> stay clean for 3 years.
> 
> A couple of people have suggested that I'm not likely to win on 
> technical merits. I might be able to get the ticket knocked down 
> to a lower speed, but that only reduces the initial fine somewhat 
> and has no effect on the insurance situation.
> 
> So I don't think I'm going to fight it.
> 
> I was going with the flow of traffic. And the other car in that 
> flow got tagged at 90. I'm not making any comments about my own 
> speed :)
> 
> Lee