How do i go about paying a speeding ticket that i lost from another state?
I got this ticket in Arkansas....i live in illinois. The address on my license is an Arkansas one - my parents. After losing the ticket i thought i would just wait on the usual letter saying i didnt pay and i didnt appear in court..and so on. This is something my parents would NOT overlook....they would have flipped out-- So I am sure that a letter like that has not been recieved.... (not saying it wasnt sent) Maybe there was a mix up or something. So I was thinking of just forgetting about it. Probably not a good idea?? ? How do I go about finding out what to do--- I want to just pay whatever it is on-line. What search do you think would put me in the right direction?
( i can't call and ask vague questions like - um, can you tell me where to send money for a ticket i got for speeding and i dont know what else.....not sure what town,,, maybe blah blah or blahblahblaah....... Also i dont have any idea how much it was for.. so sending money to the county in may have been it won't work.. I need to 'track' this using my name and DL#. )
June 16th, 2009 - 17:41
You seriously need to deal with this. Do you remember what agency ticketed you? Exactly where you were stopped? You can use google map, mapquest, or yahoo maps to identify the municipality. From that you should be able to google the police department and get their phone number.
Call and talk to the clerk, who should be able to find your ticket, tell you what its status is, and give you instructions for paying it. If the ticket isn't from that PD, the clerk should be able to give you the phone numbers of the other agencies who might have written tickets at that location.
If you don't take care if this, it will eventually cause your license to be suspended. This can get especially complicated if you transfer your license from one state to another before the suspension takes place. Because of the interstate compact, the suspension order remains in place indefinitely. When I was a clerk at a small PD, I once helped a man whose license was suspended on one of our old tickets when he tried to transfer his license to a third state more than ten years later!
June 16th, 2009 - 17:41
Mail payment to the court house in the jurisdiction in which you were caught. Money order or check.
June 16th, 2009 - 17:41
Call the Department of Transportation in that state. Call information to get the Dept of Transportation in Arkansas or you could get the number for Arkansas State Trooper they can give you a number.