I lived in NJ until last year then I moved to NC. I went back to NJ for a funeral and got pulled over for speeding on the way there. I paid the ticket and thought that was it. I came back to NJ a month ago and got pulled over a week ago, for 1 of my 2 license plates lights being out, and the officer told me my NJ license was suspended. I handed in my NJ license to the NC dmv when I moved and according to the officer my NC license was fine.
How can he write me a ticket for driving on a suspended license when I was driving on my NC license and it was fine?
I found out my license was suspended for not paying some insurance surcharge fine, they said they sent me a letter but I never got it. They have my phone number but never called me, I've never even heard of an insurance surcharge. I paid the fine the next day when I found out why my license was suspended, paid the $100 to unsuspend my license also.
2007-01-03 03:34:49 · 5 answers · asked by robert r 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Insurance & Registration
I didn't know my license was suspended, what can i do when I fight the ticket?
If it had known there was more to pay I would have. But I never got anything saying my I had to pay more, or even my license was going to be suspended.
2007-01-03 03:35:28 · update #1
my license wasn't suspended when I got my nc license. I got my NC license in 1/06 and my NJ license was suspended in 10/06, 10 months after is was surrendered in NC. It wasn't suspended for points or violations, but because I didn't pay an extra fee that I was never told I had to pay. I found out after I was pulled over 2 weeks ago, I called the place, paid over the phone and everything is fine now, but I need to go to court for the ticket.
2007-01-03 03:49:54 · update #2
It's most likely that you are still on the books as a NJ resident. Just explain to the judge that you are no longer a resident and back it up with proof of address and some mail or a tax return. That'll lighten things up for you a little. Good idea to ask a traffic lawyer though.
2007-01-03 03:45:07 · answer #1 · answered by Ricky J. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have surrendered your NJ license when you got your NC license, then just show your current NC license and tell them that you surrendered your NJ license to the NC DMV as required by law, and thus you cannot be responsible for what happens after that, unless there's a law that requires you to clean up any fines in NJ, but I don't see how they can pin this on you if you surrendered your NJ license in 01/06 and the fine was imposed in 10/06.
2007-01-03 13:24:04 · answer #2 · answered by Kasey C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I JUST went through this with my son. We had moved a couple of weeks when my son was pulled over (crazy thing - his blinker was on too long and then turned off - weird). They checked his record and told him he was driving under a suspended license and arrested him. Anyway, he had been ticketed in the state we moved from but we weren't aware that his license was suspended. We went to the OMV in the state we moved from and were given two documents showing that his license WASN'T suspended at the time he was arrested in our new state. We never received them in the mail, evidently because they were sent before I had the mail forwarded. We took the documents to the judge in our new state and he dropped the charge.
The OMV has all documents concerning your driving record. If you contact the state you moved from, they can give you a copy of the document showing that your license was suspended and when. Also where and when it was mailed from/to. Regardless of getting a new license in another state, the new state has access to your previous state's driving records and if it was suspended at the time you applied for a new one they would have been able to see it and not issue you a new one. At least, that's how it works in my 2 states so I don't see why it wouldn't work the same for you.
2007-01-03 13:37:09 · answer #3 · answered by Lou 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL GOOD LUCK. I haven't had mine for over 10 years due to simple sppeding violations. And it all started with me moving and not receiving a suspension notice for an acumulation of points. Sometimes departments utilize NCIC which states everything about you, but most states are involved with the other on driving records. NC didn't check for a NJ suspension, or you said you never had a license so they wouldn't have bothered. Good Luck man. Tis always who you blow, or know. Fuched up in fact, but hey... LAW STINKS for some of us, the rest are just sneaky, or blowing someone. And others are Hipocrits.
Happy New Year.
2007-01-03 11:43:36 · answer #4 · answered by Stephanie B 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Contact the govenor of the state if you get no satisfaction from the dept you are dealing with, the govenor is the boss of those people and it will give him something to do.
2007-01-03 13:48:58 · answer #5 · answered by victorschool1 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋