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Web Traffic School
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Why go to traffic school?  Every driver knows that being cited for a moving violation is expensive and inconvenient.  What, though, is a moving violation’s precise impact on your driving record and insurance rates?  What poor driving practices lead to moving violations and collisions?   Avoiding tickets and accidents is largely a matter of cultivating good driving habits to replace bad ones.
If you get a moving violation, you may attend traffic school to keep the violation off of your driving record, which will keep your insurance rates down. 

This traffic school course is intended to give participants an understanding of traffic safety by emphasizing not only traffic laws, but also driver responsibility and proper driving attitudes.

Traffic Laws and Points

Traffic laws are written to ensure the safety of drivers, passengers, and pedestrians.  When you violate traffic laws, you increase your chances of having an accident and injuring yourself or others.

Information about traffic accidents and convictions becomes part of your driving record. Even traffic violations that occur in other states are added to your Nevada driving record.

Most violations are reportable to your insurance company for 3 years. DUI-related convictions stay on your record for 7 years.

Demerit Point System

As part of our driver improvement program, we have a demerit point system. That is, traffic law violations are assigned to a point value. When we receive a conviction notice from a court, the offense is entered on your driver record and points are given. Demerit points are counted for any 12-month period.

If you receive 12 or more points in any 12-month period, your license will be suspended.
If you have accumulated between 3 and 11 points, you may have 3 points removed by completing a traffic safety course. The school must be one of those approved by DMV&PS. You may attend traffic school only once in 12-month period to remove points from your record.
Attending traffic safety school removes 3 demerit points. However the record of the conviction remains part of your driving history.

Note: Convictions of a major traffic offense, such as DUI or causing substantial bodily harm, by itself will result in your license being suspended. These offenses are not assigned demerit points.

When your driving record and total points show you may be having trouble driving safely, you will be contacted by DMV license review section.

The following is a partial list of traffic violations, showing the demerit points assigned to your driving record:

Reckless driving 8
Careless driving 6
Failure to give information or render aid at the scene of an accident 6
Following too closely 4
Failure to yield right-of-way 4
Passing a school bus when signals are flashing 4
Failure to yield to a pedestrian 4
Disobeying a traffic signal or stop sign 4
Impeding traffic, driving too slowly 2
Failure to dim headlights 2

Speeding

1-10 mph over posted limit 1
11-15 mph over posted limit 2
16-20 mph over posted limit 3
21 mph or more over posted limit 4
Speeding 1-15 mph over posted limit in a school zone 4
Speeding 16 mph or more over posted limit in a school zone 6

NOTE: If you have a Commercial Driver License there are additional penalties for some traffic violations, and additional demerit points may be assigned.

It is against the law to give false information when applying for your Nevada driver license. It is also illegal to alter your license in any way, to lend it to someone else, or to use another person's license.
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