Missed Court Date, or FTA NC Ticket

Missing your court date for your NC speeding or traffic ticket can have drastic consequences.  I know, they seem like harmless pieces of paper, but they aren’t.

When you miss your court date, generally the clerks in that county will hold your ticket for 20 days.  There are some counties where, depending on the offense, they might issue a warrant for your arrest.  And that’s a whole other set of problems.  But if there’s no OFA, then after that 20 days they will report your absence to DMV.  Then a bit later DMV will send you a letter telling you to handle your business by a certain date or they will indefinitely revoke your license until you do.

This is where most people get caught up in a snowball.  They might have forgotten to update their address with DMV, so DMV sends this letter to an old address, so there is nothing to remind the defendant of their missed court date.  Then, the next time they get pulled over – either next week or next month, or whenever, they get charged with driving while license revoked, and then it gets even uglier!

The moral of the story is this: Don’t forget about your ticket!  Better yet, hire an attorney – like me! – to handle your ticket so it gets resolved timely and in the best way possible under the circumstances.  Make that call early so you don’t have to worry about forgetting.

The cost of non-compliance is high.