Reckless Driving Charges in NC, Charlotte Mecklenburg Area
Often times when my Charlotte, NC area clients call, they are quite disturbed by having been charged with reckless driving, a misdemeanor level criminal charge. It seems like a scary version of a traffic misdemeanor to face. There’s two primary situations where a stop can end up leading to you being charged with reckless driving: Excessive speeding, and/or actual erratic driving.
Erratic driving could be swerving, spinning tires, road rage behavior, or really any type of driving that a Charlotte area law enforcement officer deems negligently or wantonly dangerous. Usually in this case, depending on your record, we can appear in Mecklenburg district court for you, and negotiate a better deal than just pleading to reckless driving. A common example is taking responsibility to an unsafe movement infraction, a 1 point infraction as opposed to a 4 point misdemeanor. This has tremendous mitigating effect on your record, as well as auto insurance increases that will haunt you for years to come!
Many states consider high speed to be reckless. In NC, officers can deem speeding reckless and charge it as such at relatively low speeds. Criminal speeding in NC starts at a low 16mph over! In NC the reckless charge accompanies speeding as a second misdemeanor charge. I typically see reckless at speeds of 25mph over and higher. In these cases, you’ve exceeded the speed limit, according to the state, by extraordinarily dangerous margins. In these cases, you’ll want to have an experienced Charlotte area speeding ticket attorney to represent you. You could lose your license at a certain point of speed, the reckless charge is usually of lesser concern in these cases surprisingly. NC DMV is very strict with high speed records, and there are many paths to license revocation here!
If you’ve been charged with speeding and/or Reckless driving in Charlotte NC, don’t hesitate to call me, I’m experienced in traffic negotiations for Mecklenburg County district courts, and we can give you a good idea up front what type of outcome you’ll be looking at. Don’t go to court alone on these!