Get your New Jersey abstract ASAP when you get a NY traffic ticket
If you’re a New Jersey driver who has gotten a New York trooper ticket on the Thruway or the Taconic, here are the first two steps you should take when you get home:
Call Selby Legal, or upload your traffic ticket and get a call back.
Both of these steps should be taken as soon as possible. Call this office when the details are fresh in your mind, but order your driving history because it can take a very long time to get it.
Prosecutors in many of the local town and village courts of the Hudson Valley are willing to negotiate a plea bargain, but not unless they know about your driving record. These prosecutors can get a New York driving history easily enough, but out-of-state drivers need to provide a copy.
In New Jersey, the process has been breaking down due to postal delays. To get order your own New Jersey driving history online, you first have to obtain a user ID. In New York someone with a license can get that right away, but in New Jersey a user ID is mailed to your home address. A process that used to take a couple of weeks can now take a month or more, just due to the mail. It’s worse if you have moved since last updating your address at MVC, because you’ll have to correct that before asking for the user ID to be mailed. If that driving history is not available in court, then no offer will be made at that time.
At Selby Legal, we have seen all the problems and pitfalls to resolving Hudson Valley traffic ticket. Your free consultation is a time to make sure you understand what’s required to make this as easy as possible.