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Friday, May 11, 2012

HCPD Aggressively Enforcing Seat Belt Laws this Month

Officers were posted in Columbia on Thursday looking for seatbelt violators.

If you were driving near the intersection of Snowden River Parkway and Robert Fulton Drive around 2 p.m. on Thursday in Columbia you may have noticed a line of four police cars pulled over with officers walking around outside their cars. The police were looking for seatbelt violators, said one of the officers who was posted on a grassy island where Robert Fulton Drive merged into the northbound lanes of Snowden River Parkway. The officer's position on the island gave him an ideal vantage point to check drivers and passengers for belts as they slowed down to merge onto Snowden River. Throughout May and into early June, Maryland law enforcement officers will be aggressively enforcing Maryland’s seat belt laws, according to Sherry Llewellyn, …

Elizabeth

4:02 pm on Friday, May 11, 2012

Oh for Pete's sake! If someone can't put a seatbelt on, their ticket should be more than $25. It doesn't take much effort to click!   more ›

Friday, December 3, 2010

Got a Ticket While Driving? New Law Changes Trial Procedure

As of 2011, those who receive tickets for certain offenses must request a trial date instead of automatically receiving one.

Got a ticket while driving? It's long been that you'd have a court date, too, one set automatically for you. Not anymore – at least not once 2011 rolls around. A new state law will require drivers with payable traffic tickets to actually request a court date if they want to dispute the ticket, according to the Maryland state government's judiciary branch. Payable traffic tickets can be for speeding, failure to obey traffic signs or signals, failure to stop for a school bus, and for any other violations for which no incarceration or jail time is required. (The violations that will still require a court appearance are driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, or driving on a suspended license.) Within 30 days of receiving a …

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