Traffic Ticket Lawyer Serving Berkeley Township
A Berkeley Township summons usually says more about where you were than about how you drive.
Route 9 through Bayville is one lane in each direction with driveways and parking lots opening onto it, and the tickets to expect there are careless driving under N.J.S.A. 39:4-97 and hand-held phone use under N.J.S.A. 39:4-97.3. Inland of Route 9, on county roads such as Pinewald-Keswick Road and Dover Road, the ticket to expect is speeding under N.J.S.A. 39:4-98. On the Garden State Parkway around the Exit 77 ramps a State trooper writes it instead. Mule Road and Jamaica Boulevard, the two main roads of the Holiday City and Silver Ridge Park communities west of the Parkway, bring stop-sign and turning charges. All of it is answered in one room, Berkeley Township Municipal Court on Pinewald-Keswick Road in Bayville, whatever your mail says. The fine ends the day you pay it; the points do not, because they stay on the abstract an insurer reads at every renewal, and paying the ticket is how they get there. In many cases we can answer the Bayville calendar so you do not have to, and reading your summons costs nothing.
What We Know About Berkeley Township Cases
A careless driving summons written on Route 9 after a car turned into or out of a business driveway is rarely a case about speed, so the first document we read is the crash report: whether an officer watched any of it or arrived afterward, whose account the narrative follows, where the damage sits on each vehicle, and whether the two versions can both be true.
If you cannot make the date, Berkeley's court does not take that request over the counter on the morning of the listing: it asks for adjournment requests in writing, with supporting documentation, at least four business days ahead, and it accepts them by fax as well as by mail, which is why a date you already know you cannot keep is handled the week it arrives rather than the week it falls.
A speeding or lane-change summons from the Parkway around Exit 77 comes back to Bayville even though no Berkeley officer wrote it, and that split matters once the case is prepared, because the record of when the speed device was last tested and the certification of the trooper who used it are held by the State Police and have to be asked for there.