If you receive a traffic ticket and are found guilty of the charge your insurance rates will most\u00a0likely\u00a0increase significantly.<\/p>\n
The New York Times recently published a list provided by Insurance.com for the average increases to auto insurance costs for convictions on traffic violations, which can be viewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Average Increases on Insurance Costs for Traffic Convictions:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Reckless driving: 22 percent How Can I Avoid Insurance Increases?<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>The best solution is to follow your local traffic laws, but if you receive a traffic ticket you should hire a traffic lawyer<\/a> to fix or amend your traffic ticket<\/a>\u00a0so that you do not receive points on your license which leads to increased insurance costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you receive a traffic ticket and are found guilty of the charge your insurance rates will most\u00a0likely\u00a0increase significantly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10,11,30,47],"igit_series":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traffic-ticket-law","tag-amend-traffic-ticket","tag-driver-license-points","tag-speeding-tickets","tag-traffic-tickets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"igit_series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/igit_series?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. Driving while under the influence: first offense: 19 percent
\n3. Driving without a license or permit: 18 percent
\n4. Careless driving: 16 percent
\n5. Speeding 30 m.p.h. over the limit: 15 percent
\n6. Failure to stop: 15 percent
\n7. Improper turn: 14 percent
\n8. Improper passing: 14 percent
\n9. Following too close\/tailgating: 13 percent
\n10. Speeding 15 to 29 m.p.h. over limit: 12 percent
\n11. Speeding 1 to 14 m.p.h. over limit: 11 percent
\n12. Failure to yield: 9 percent
\n13. No car insurance: 6 percent
\n14. Seat-belt infractions: 3 percent<\/p>\n