Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog

Tennessee traffic law attorneys help fight to keep your drivers license legal. Keeping your license legal is important because the penalties for driving on a revoked or suspended license are harsh. Once your license is lost, it is usually difficult to get back. Points continue to be applied toward your license even though you don’t have one. If a person is convicted of speeding with a revoked license, he or she loses points for the speeding and points for the driving on revoked. The wait to get your license reinstated becomes longer with each citation received. A person is basically forced to break the law once his or her license is taken.

The problem is that driving is a necessity in today’s society. Most parts of East Tennessee are rural and spread out. A person must drive in order to function normally and public transportation is inadequate. The public transportation system may not run the correct routes for all daily activities. It becomes a hassle to get groceries, go to work, take the kids to school, and conduct all normal activities of the day. Even if the public transportation system goes where you want to travel, the hours are inconvenient. Any type of public transportation late at night is usually out of the question in East Tennessee. Someone without a license can ask friends and family for rides, but this becomes an annoyance for everyone after time. People finally submit to the rational temptation of driving on a revoked license. This is when he or she gets caught and the time becomes longer for reinstatement of the legal license due to the harsh penalties associated with driving on a revoked.

The best way to avoid this rut is to keep your license legal in the first place. In the last two postings under the traffic laws tab, I discussed other ways that points can be applied toward your license. Points can accrue on your Tennessee license for moving traffic violations, speeding, and accidents. The following list displays how many points an accident in Tennessee will cost you:

• Contributing to occurrence of an accident resulting in property damage (3 points)
• Contributing to occurrence of an accident resulting in bodily injury (4 points)
• Failure to report accident (4 points)
• Contributing to occurrence of an accident resulting in the death of another person (8 points)

Accidents can be costly both in terms of money and points on your license. Points can add up quickly in accidents. Suppose someone traveling 16 m.p.h. over the speed limit is involved in a wreck that causes both bodily injury and property damage. It would cost this fictitious person 4 points for speeding, 4 points for the injury, and 3 points for the property, leaving only 1 point remaining on the license. Tennessee traffic attorneys handle all types of speeding, accident, and moving violations in the Knoxville, Gatlinburg, Sevierville, and Pigeon Forge areas. Keep your license legal by contacting a Traffic lawyer.