USA Have you ever wondered if speeding tickets from other states follow You?
By TexLadyPj
@TexLadyPj (1328)
United States
June 1, 2010 8:56am CST
Have you received a speeding ticket on vacation and wondered if it would follow you to your home state? This from a gas price alert site I read.
There are three data bases that are nationwide and allow law enforcement to check your records and can prevent you from renewing your license in your home state. They are National Driver Register, the Driver License Compact and Non-Resident Driver Compact.
I cannot cut and paste, if you want more information I can message you the link.
Data bases of today are nationwide, unlike years ago when each state had an independent data base.
1 response
@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
1 Jun 10
This is the way it should be. Speeding is an offence (as any lawyer will tell you). If you commit an offence in one place and then commit a similar offence in another place, why should you be protected simply because the two places do not communicate?
You are an American (I suppose) and are therefore subject to the laws of your country and, secondarily, to the laws of your state. In other words, state law should never conflict with federal law and any offence under state law should automatically be an offence under federal law.
@TexLadyPj (1328)
• United States
2 Jun 10
Hi Owlwings
Thank you for your response. I'm sorry, I forgot to mention I'm in the USA and the tiny state of Texas.
Sometimes state laws do conflict with federal laws, see a new discussion I thought about prompted by your response.
Have a prosperous mylotting experience.
