<p>Well, if she loses the liciense for 90days (which it sounds like she won’t) but if she does, drop her at work and get her when you can, she can read or something while at the pool</p>
<p>Not ideal, but it is a consequence</p>
<p>And I have written down the #s of trucks etc who have tailgated me, or I use my phone (handsfree of course) to call myself with the info on the truck- company and whatever #s I can see and the date and time and location and when I can, i report the driver</p>
<p>Thanks MO2–we’ve also heard that but I’m not counting on it. Even still, it’s her fault and she has to pay the consequences.</p>
<p>Sax: she knows that too…and lots of kids who’ve gotten caught. She’s not much of a drinker.</p>
<p>Emerald–great idea…we will probablly look into it, since she won’t be driving much this summer anyway. BTW she was just trying to speed up to get out of the way and possibly look for a safe place to pull over and let them past. She said she wasn’t going over 55 mph when the first semi came up and passed her. It scared her to death. When the second semi got on her tail, she sped up. That’s when she came upon the speed trap.</p>
<p>CGM: I’ve done that too!</p>
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<p>I’d have her go to court, and if they offer to lower the fine/charge, take it and if not, she most certainly should explain herself. Those semi’s can be intimidating, and do not take driving at the speed limit lightly. I have sped upt\ to get them off my tail or to keep them from passing me and scaring me to death. She should go and be able to explain. While she may still get a ticket/fine, I will bet she will not get the same points or loose her license.</p>
<p>“But until she goes to school, we’re going to have to drive her everywhere.”</p>
<p>How about them two things on the bottm of her legs? I think they are called feet and are very good for walking to the “bus stop”. A bus stop is a place where you wait until a bus comes by. Then you put money in a box and voila it takes you places. Another nifty alternative is called called a bicycle. You use the things at the end of your legs to pedal it.</p>
<p>^^^My 13 y.o. got a lesson on THAT yesterday when I couldn’t find the keys and he had to walk to the soccer fields about 1.5 miles away with a good-sized water jug (he was reffing 4 games in the middle of the day).</p>
<p>Bicycles have already been suggested, and please understand that not all suburban areas have buses. Ours doesn’t.</p>
<p>“Seems all her friends get to wreck “brand new cars” repeatedly and their parents replace them without a peep.”</p>
<p>Whenever I would get anything like that from my son I would explain to him, “Yes but they are not poor white trash living on the wrong end of the county like you. What you need to do is work a little harder and study a little harder you won’t be a poor, fat, balding, boring, heartless old <expletive deleted=”“> like your father. Then you can treat your kids fairly.”</expletive></p>
<p>Son never lost his license but he did total out a car that was on its last legs. Nobody hurt thank heave. He turned into oncomming traffic on a dark rainy evening at an intersection where I had repeatedly told him it was easy to do. He of course pooh-poohed me as a blind old man. He who laughs last:-) The old man isn’t as big an idiot as he seems.</p>
<p>It never ceases to amaze me how much smarter my own father got as he got older. I guess all that experience made him smarter. Fortunately I always knew everything and still do;-)</p>
<p>^ lol hl !!!</p>
<p>Higherlead: sorry, no bus line takes her directly to work. It’d be at least an hour ride (and 3 different lines) for her to get to work. But the bike is a possibility, and she’s already told us she’d ride her bike instead of drive if she had to.</p>
<p>Motherdear: I hope you found your keys. I lost mine once at a softball game; luckily I had an extra set for that car but I did lose the remote to my husband’s car, which as many of you know is a pain to replace!</p>
<p>My S got a speeding ticket (15 mph over) last fall driving down the interstate on his way back to college.
He hired a lawyer to reperesent him (the ticket was issued in a county 2 hours from his school and his court date was set during Fall exam week). Lawyer went to court and got the ticket decreased.</p>
<p>Our insurance did not increase because the ticket was dropped to less than 10 miles over the limit. If it had increased, S would have had to pay it.
As it was the $$$ he had to shell out to pay the lawyer taught him a lesson (we hope).</p>
<p>Aren’t there exceptions/limitations to license suspensions. Like, can she still drive to and from employment??? I thought there were loopholes like that.</p>
<p>If it was just a speeding ticket she got and they do not report to your home state, then she is fine. However many states add a reckless driving charge to the speeding one if the driver was more than 20 miles over the limit.</p>
<p>If you want or need to fight this, I would strongly suggest contacting an attorney who specializes in traffic court. Your child should take a defensive driving course before appearing in court, have a letter from work that shows the judge she is employed and gives the hours that she can be scheduled for. With a little luck she might be issued a “work only” driver’s permit.</p>
<p>The closest bus to us is about a 5 mile walk. Some parts of the country have minimal public transportation and bad weather. We have nice mountains though.</p>
<p>"Higherlead: sorry, no bus line takes her directly to work. It’d be at least an hour ride (and 3 different lines) for her to get to work. "</p>
<p>I am originally from a small town that was next to a small city with very minimal public transportation. I worked summers, and didn’t have a car. Sometimes I walked home from work, which was at least 5 miles. It also was a long walk to catch the bus.</p>
<p>I didn’t have a car until I was about 24, and bought my first car. By then, I was living in cities with better transportation, but stilll when I took the bus to work, I had to walk about 1.5 miles on a long, dark, winding road (sometimes I was due at work at 7:00 a.m.), and then the ride itself took about an hour because of the circuitous bus route. If I had been able to drive it, it would have taken 15 minutes.</p>
<p>There are plenty of people who have to do things like walk several miles to a bus stop, and they do that at the heat of the day.</p>
<p>I had to think how far the nearest bus was to our home as our area is not bus friendly. While I live out in the suburbs, the closest bus is about 3 miles away and it only goes to the mass transit station to the south and down a main road to the north. I was thinking if any of us had no transportation to work, how long would it take to get there by bus and mass transit- my daughter would have to walk the 3 mile on a busy street with no sidewalks, take the bus to the station south of home and work, take MT back north, transfer to another bus that I think stops close to her work. Like Northstarmom, when she drives to work it takes 15-20 minutes; if she didn’t have a car I am guessing it could take up to 2 hours for her to get to work!!</p>
<p>wow, guess I am old fashioned, but it is summer and if it takes her an hour on the bus, it takes her an hour</p>
<p>not the worse thing in the world, when you think about it</p>
<p>Has she considered riding a bike? My husband rides his bike to work – 10 miles roundtrip, not in a city that’s that bike friendly. He’s 57 years old.</p>
<p>Other options: taxi or carpool, things that many people who have no cars have to do.</p>
<p>This is ridiculous. The kid needs to NOT have her license suspended. That is not the desired result. This c rap about walking to school 5 miles uphill in the snow (and back- still uphill) is Abraham Lincoln lore.</p>
<p>The girl got a minor speeding ticket. It needs to be handled so insurance rates don’t increase and so she can keep driving. If anyone thinks there needs to be further consequences for THIS, I have to laugh hysterically. Try 110 in a 55 for WildChild!! Yes, there were consequences (including being hauled off to jail for a few hours), but you better believe we, as a family, did everything we could to handle the thing- it would have tanked the whole family’s insurance. It cost some bucks for a lawyer (a well-connected one who graduated from my law school), but the thing got dismissed (with probation) with NOTHING on WildChild’s record. I know I will bring down the wrath of all the “I’m glad I raised kids who would never do such a thing” parents for this, but, hey, this is the real world. The bottom line is a young person does not need to have anything on their record if it can be avoided.</p>
<p>That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.</p>
<p>one other thought … in a lot of states a driver can attend remedial driving school and have a ticket forgiven (and avoid the point) … many moons ago I traded a day (or 1/2 day?) of my time for a speeding ticket … a good trade in my book!</p>
<p>In Florida you can take an online class (about 3-4 hours) and have the points removed. It costs something, can’t remember ($50 or so??). Son had ticket points removed this way. Insurance didn’t change. I think you can do this up to two times!! What state was the ticket received in- maybe they have the same thing.</p>