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The Suffolk County amnesty for traffic tickets was extended until 2-28-19. If you have an unpaid traffic ticket with the traffic court in Suffolk, you have a few more days to avoid paying any traffic ticket penalties. This was my prior post on this topic; The Suffolk County Traffic and Parking Violations Agency is giving a break to drivers with unpaid traffic tickets through a new amnesty program. Unpaid traffic, parking, and red-light camera tickets in Suffolk can settle up ...and avoid the penalties. The newly announced amnesty program started 12-4-18 and ends on 2-20-19. The agency's executive director reports there are nearly 550,000 unpaid tickets in the county. This is good news because this can resolve tickets (and suspensions) by avoiding paying the penalties. For some people, this means savings. For other people, this means getting their license back. Note that after 2-20-19, unpaid tickets can result in Suffolk County enforcing unpaid tickets by putting a boot lock on vehicles. Contact us to see how we can help you, or someone you know, resolve unpaid tickets. Phone: 631-265-0102. Ronald S. Cook, Attorney See more

NEW! The Suffolk County Traffic and Parking Violations Agency is giving a break to drivers with unpaid traffic tickets through a new amnesty program. Unpaid traffic, parking, and red-light camera tickets in Suffolk can settle up and avoid the penalties. The newly announced amnesty program started 12-4-18 and ends on 2-20-19. The agency's executive director reports there are nearly 550,000 unpaid tickets in the county. This is good news because this can resolve tickets (and su...spensions) by avoiding paying the penalties. For some people, this means savings. For other people, this means getting their license back. Note that after 2-20-19, unpaid tickets can result in Suffolk County enforcing unpaid tickets by putting a boot lock on vehicles. Contact us to see how we can help you, or someone you know, resolve unpaid tickets. Phone: 631-265-0102. Ronald S. Cook, Attorney See more

Are red light cameras saving lives? The data says yes. In Nassau County, accidents at intersections with red-light cameras were down 26 percent in 2016, compared with the number of crashes in the 12-month period before the cameras were installed at each intersection. Crashes with injuries were down 39 percent, head-on collisions declined 84 percent, side-impact collisions dipped 1 percent and rear-end accidents were down 34 percent. Both Nassau county and Suffolk county are a...uthorized to install cameras at 100 intersections. Nassau has them at 86 intersections, with the number increasing gradually since 2010 and the number of cameras at some intersections increasing, too. Accidents for all of Nassau have declined, too, but not as much as at the red-light camera intersections, where 5 percent of the county’s collisions occur. According to preliminary figures, total accidents in Nassau County in 2017 were down 12 percent compared with 2010, while auto fatalities declined 20 percent and accidents with injuries declined 11 percent. County officials say they believe the annual total of miles driven in Nassau has increased. And to show cameras do work to improve habits, the officials point to data showing infractions generally decline at an intersection a few years after cameras are installed. Mixed results in Suffolk: In Suffolk County, the news is more mixed because the data is compiled differently. The county began installing cameras in 2010, and had nearly maxed out its allotment by 2014. In 2016, total collisions at red-light intersections in the county were 1.5 percent higher, compared with the annual average for the three years before the program began, 2007-09. However, accidents with injuries declined 1.5 percent. Dangerous right-angle collisions were down 23 percent, but rear-end collisions were 35 percent higher. That’s a daunting number, but the data suggest, and county officials believe, that new driver distractions like smartphones are causing the increase in rear-end collisions, not late braking to avoid red-light camera tickets. Suffolk’s rear-end collisions on all roads are up 23 percent compared with 2009, and up a nearly identical 22 percent at red-light-camera intersections in that span. Related considerations: Many drivers don’t focus on driving as they talk on and play with phones and attend to navigation systems and other gadgets. There are critics that claim yellow-light times were reduced to induce violations, however, officials in both counties categorically deny it has ever happened.

If you need help with any kind of New York, traffic ticket, let us know. Call 888-275-2620. If you move, you need to change your address with the DMV within 10 days. This is important because if the DMV sends you a notice of any kind, and you don't receive that notice, the resulting consequences will become a problem. For example, suppose that you receive a red light camera ticket. The notice is mailed to your OLD address. Your mail forwarding fails. Your license could get ...suspended because you did not even know to respond to that red light ticket! Address Change in New York: If you have just moved to New York or have moved within the state, you must update your address with the New York Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). You will need to apply for or update your: NY driver's license or ID card. New York certificate of title. NY vehicle registration. The NY state DMV requires you to update your address within 10 days of moving. If you are a military member temporarily stationed outside of New York, you do not need to report an address change. You may change your address online, by mail, by phone or in person at your local NY DMV office. You cannot report your address change by email. You will not receive updated documents when you change your address on NY DMV records. You can simply write your new address on: The back of your NY driver's license/ID card. Your vehicle registration document (cross off your old address). NOTE: Do not write on your certificate of title. You must apply for a replacement title if you wish to have an up-to-date document. See the Replace Your NY Vehicle Title" section below. If you would like replacement documents showing your new address, you can apply for an updated NY driver's license/ID card, vehicle registration and title separately.