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[–] 8 points 3 months ago*

Depends on where you live and the laws.

Where I am, the fines for a minor driving offense (unpaid speeding ticket/parking ticket/toll) continue to increase until they eventually revoke your license.

If it's a criminal charge (criminally high speeding, drunk driving, driving on a suspended license, etc.) and you fail to show up when summoned to court, then it's straight to jail.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Jurisdiction dependent, but where I live, the fine increases, and eventually leads to jail time.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Depends. Cars can be impounded, wages garnished, other property taken and resold

    Depend on your state, area, laws and such.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Some info from a random traffic lawyer firm

    In Canada, typically small offences and minor traffic law violations earn you a provincial offence notice that don't add to a criminal record. You can pay it, negotiate for a lower fine or dispute it in court. If you don't pay and don't show up to court, fines increase, it may or may not go to collections, and usually you can't renew your driver's licence until you've paid off your fines. If you let multiple offences or more serious ones pile up, then you can have your licence taken away. The fact whether a conviction is automatic or not will show up on your driving record, so your auto insurance will go up more if you tend to ignore tickets.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Depends on location.

    Here you generally get bigger and bigger fines and eventually lose your license. They don't ever garnish wages or anything like that. Driving without a license has its own punishments, which could eventually lead to incarceration, but if you never drive again it just stays on your record and wouldn't have any financial impact.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    From many experiences: only do this somewhere you don't live. Also, many places have reciprocal laws, meaning they honor the legal decisions of another place, so make sure that isn't the case either.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Also depends on how big the fine is, and how big a scofflaw you are.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    What's your favourite ice cream flavour?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    As others have said, it will depend on your jurisdiction, but in Manitoba they can block your licence renewal, or block your vehicle registration/insurance renewal.

    At work we had our fleet vehicle registration/insurance renewal blocked because some other department's fleet vehicle had outstanding parking fines.

    It took almost a month to get that sorted out and parked half of our fleet.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    eventually you will lose your license but initially it will go to collections. oh and fines and such will stack up as you progress to not being able to legally drive.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    I'm wondering if you've perhaps got "ask me anything" backwards here.

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