Starting Feb. 16, new point values for driving violations will be in effect in New York state.<\/p>\n
The highest total you can get for a single violation is 11 points. This includes driving with a suspended license or driving 40 miles over the speed limit.<\/p>\n
Any incidents relating to alcohol or drugs will also get you 11 points, when before, you wouldn’t get any.<\/p>\n
Ricardo Cabrera, from Bronx Driving School, says these changes will benefit everyone.<\/p>\n
“The new rules are going to be able to make us stay safe in the streets because there are a lot of drivers that are not following the rules and that puts everyone at risk,” says Cabrera.<\/p>\n
Passing a school bus and an over-height vehicle violation could get you up to eight points and leaving the scene of a crash and car racing will result in up to five points.<\/p>\n
Cabrera says there are ways to offset these violations.<\/p>\n
“The defensive driving course will help you with four points and it will also give you 10% off on your insurance if you take the course for three years,” he says.<\/p>\n
These points will now stay on your record for 24 months instead of 18, so racking up multiple violations can result in losing your license. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starting Feb. 16, new point values for driving violations will be in effect in New York state. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,30820,9,24,63,129,131,130,54117,44720],"class_list":["post-132302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-driving-rules","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-traffic-violations","tag-violations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}