{"id":208,"date":"2012-11-28T17:46:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T23:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/?p=208"},"modified":"2013-06-25T13:32:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T19:32:16","slug":"why-are-points-on-my-drivers-license-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/why-are-points-on-my-drivers-license-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Points on My Driver&#8217;s License Bad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you get convicted of a any type of traffic offense that is considered a moving violation you will most likely receive points on your driver&#8217;s license. The amount of points given for a traffic conviction depend on the severity of the violation and Missouri has set amount of points for each type of traffic law.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you receive 8 or more points in an 18 month period the Department of Revenue (DOR) will suspend your drivers license:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st suspension &#8211; 30 days<\/li>\n<li>2nd suspension &#8211; 60 days<\/li>\n<li>3rd or more suspensions &#8211; 90 days<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The DOR will suspend your driver&#8217;s license for one year if you accumulate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>12 or more points in 12 months<\/li>\n<li>18 or more points in 24 months<\/li>\n<li>24 or more points in 36 months<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to receiving points on your driver&#8217;s license which can lead to a suspension of your license, your auto insurance costs will usually raise significantly even if you only have a few points on your record.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you\u00a0received\u00a0a traffic ticket, contact the traffic ticket lawyers at Traffic Law Stop at (314) 644 &#8211; 7102, or <a title=\"Online Traffic Lawyer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/ticket\/state\/mo\">submit your traffic ticket online<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you get convicted of a any type of traffic offense that is considered a moving violation you will most likely receive points on your driver&#8217;s license. The amount of points given for a traffic conviction depend on the severity of the violation and Missouri has set amount of points for each type of traffic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[11,31,17,42],"igit_series":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-driver-license-law","category-traffic-ticket-law","tag-driver-license-points","tag-missouri-traffic-law","tag-missouri-traffic-ticket","tag-traffic-lawyers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","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=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"igit_series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/igit_series?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}