Traffic Ticket Lawyer Serving Red Bank
Red Bank writes its tickets in two very different places.
One is Route 35, which carries through traffic across the Navesink River waterfront and pushes drivers into stop-and-go backups at the borough's signals, along with Newman Springs Road running in from Garden State Parkway Exit 109 and Shrewsbury Avenue on the west side. The other is downtown itself, where Broad Street packs storefronts, crosswalks and on-street parking into a few tight blocks and produces a completely different citation mix — careless driving, failure to yield to a pedestrian, improper turns and parking-maneuver collisions that happen at ten miles an hour. All of it is heard at Red Bank Borough Municipal Court on Monmouth Street, including the many summonses written to people who drove in for dinner or a show and have never been in that courtroom. 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. The 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 on top. The goal in almost every Red Bank ticket case is keeping points off your license, and for most non-DWI matters we appear so that you do not have to.
What We Know About Red Bank Cases
The tickets that come out of Red Bank split cleanly between the corridors and the downtown grid — speeding and careless driving on Route 35 and Newman Springs Road where traffic moves, and careless driving, failure to yield and improper-turn summonses on Broad Street and the commercial blocks around it, where the speeds are low but pedestrians, delivery vehicles and cars pulling in and out of on-street parking are all competing for the same few feet of pavement.
Careless driving is a two-point offense under N.J.S.A. 39:4-97 and in a walkable downtown it is very often issued after a minor low-speed collision or a close call in a crosswalk, which makes it worth defending rather than simply paying, because pleading guilty to that ticket is an admission that can follow you straight into the insurance claim arising from the same incident.
Before any court date we review the summons, your driving abstract, and the radar or laser calibration and officer-certification records where a speed device was involved, 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.