17 turning 18

[Willinders]

I live in Minnesota and I am 17 years old but will be 18 in less than 1 month. I got a speeding ticket about a week or two ago and I heard that when you turn 18 your records clear. So do I have to pay it if my records are going to be cleared in a few weeks?

[Happy Trails]

Originally Posted by Willinders

I live in Minnesota and I am 17 years old but will be 18 in less than 1 month. I got a speeding ticket about a week or two ago and I heard that when you turn 18 your records clear. So do I have to pay it if my records are going to be cleared in a few weeks?

Who told you that?

[Curt581]

Originally Posted by Willinders

I live in Minnesota and I am 17 years old but will be 18 in less than 1 month. I got a speeding ticket about a week or two ago and I heard that when you turn 18 your records clear. So do I have to pay it if my records are going to be cleared in a few weeks?

That is absolutely, totally, ridiculously FALSE.

You should beat up who ever told you that, then smack yourself in the head with a ballpeen hammer for believing it.

IAAL, where are you?

[I AM ALWAYS LIABLE]

Originally Posted by Curt581

IAAL, where are you?

My response:

Like I always say, Curt. Some people are just too stupid to be alive.

IAAL

[wirry1422]

Whoever told him that is probably assuming that the rules of expungement for juvenile criminal records also apply to the driving records of juveniles, which is absolutely not true and wrong. All driving records are public info and traffic citations remain on that record for the same length of time for 16 and 17 year olds as they do for adult drivers (generally 4 to 10 years in most states depending on the severity of the offense)

[Veronica1228]

I am sixteen going seventeen
I know that I'm naive
Fellows I meet may tell me I'm sweet
And willingly I believe

I am sixteen going seventeen
Innocent as a rose
Bachelor dandies, drinkers of brandies
What do I know of those?

Totally unprepared am I to face a world of men
Timid and shy and scared am I
Of things beyond my ken

I need someone older and wiser
Telling me what to do,
You are seventeen going on eighteen
I'll depend on you!

[Happy Trails]

Originally Posted by Curt581

That is absolutely, totally, ridiculously FALSE.

You should beat up who ever told you that, then smack yourself in the head with a ballpeen hammer for believing it.

IAAL, where are you?

Usually these rumors come from other teens who have gotten a ticket.

We had a rumor here, that if you got a ticket, you should pay the fine for .25 cents over (hoping the insurance company won't find out). The belief was that with a balance of money that was due to you the ticket wouldn't fully be processed; since they won't send the quarter back to you (because the stamp cost more).

They process it and keep the quarter.