Traffic Ticket Lawyer Serving Freehold Township
Freehold Township writes most of its tickets on Route 9.
The highway runs the length of the township as a sequence of signals, jughandles and shopping-center entrances, and that combination — drivers crossing three lanes to make a jughandle, traffic braking hard for a turn lane — produces the speeding and careless-driving stops that fill the docket. Route 537 carries the Freehold Raceway Mall corridor as West Main Street and Kozloski Road, Route 33 runs east-west past Monmouth Battlefield State Park, and Route 79, Route 522 and Halls Mill Road pick up the local traffic cutting between them. All of it is heard at Freehold Township Municipal Court at Municipal Plaza — including the many tickets written to drivers from elsewhere in New Jersey who were only passing through on Route 9. Nearly every one of these charges carries points: speeding under N.J.S.A. 39:4-98, careless driving under N.J.S.A. 39:4-97, hand-held phone use under N.J.S.A. 39:4-97.3. Points, not the fine, are the real expense, because they drive insurance increases for years and six points in three years adds an MVC surcharge. The goal in almost every Freehold Township ticket case is to keep points off your license, and for most non-DWI matters we appear so that you do not have to.
What We Know About Freehold Township Cases
The tickets we see most out of Freehold Township are corridor-driven — speeding and careless driving on Route 9, hand-held phone stops in the stop-and-go stretches near the mall entrances on Route 537, and citations written on Route 33 and Route 79 to drivers passing through who have never heard of the courtroom at Municipal Plaza.
Careless driving is a two-point offense under N.J.S.A. 39:4-97 and it is very often issued after a minor fender-bender in one of the township's retail lots or jughandles, which makes it worth defending rather than paying, because pleading guilty to the ticket is an admission that can follow you straight into the insurance claim from the same crash.
Before any court date we review the summons, your driving abstract, and the radar or laser calibration and officer-certification records, because whether a no-point resolution such as unsafe operation under N.J.S.A. 39:4-97.2 is realistic depends on your record and on what those documents actually show.