Traffic Ticket Lawyer Serving Toms River
Toms River writes traffic tickets where Ocean County's traffic actually is: the long signal-dense stretch of Hooper Avenue past the Ocean County Mall, Route 37 and its jughandles, Route 9 on the west side of town, Fischer Boulevard and Bay Avenue, and the Garden State Parkway ramps at Exits 82 and 83.
School-zone and careless-driving enforcement is a fact of life around the township's three high schools, and in summer the Route 37 crawl toward the bridges produces a steady stream of lane-change, cell-phone, and following-too-closely citations. Every one of those tickets lands at Toms River Township Municipal Court, 255 Oak Avenue — one of the busiest municipal courts in the county — and most of them carry points: speeding under N.J.S.A. 39:4-98, careless driving under 39:4-97, hand-held phone use under 39:4-97.3. Points mean insurance increases that last for years, and six points within three years adds an MVC surcharge on top. The good news is that volume cuts both ways: point-carrying charges can frequently be negotiated to a lower-point or no-point resolution, such as unsafe operation under N.J.S.A. 39:4-97.2, when the facts and your record support it. For most tickets we can appear so you do not lose a workday.
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What We Know About Toms River Cases
The highest-volume enforcement corridors in Toms River are Hooper Avenue from downtown out past the mall, Route 37 in both directions, Route 9 through the western part of the township, and the Parkway interchanges.
A large share of the tickets written here go to drivers just passing through — Shore traffic on 37, commuters on 9 and the Parkway — and those drivers usually do not need to return to town for a routine ticket, because a lawyer can appear on most non-DWI matters.
Careless driving after a fender-bender is one of the most common charges we see out of the Hooper Avenue and Route 37 intersections, and it is very often the most fixable one: two points that can frequently be resolved as a no-point offense.