Reader question:

What happens to my car insurance rates if I get a speeding ticket?

Joe

Fantastic question.

There is a high likelihood that nothing at all will hapen, because yolur car insurance company might not even find out. Car insurance companies learn about things like DUIs and speeding tickets whenever you first sign on board as a policy holder, and then once you have stared with them they check your motor vehicle report about once every three years to see what’s been going on. If you get your speeding ticket right after you sign on, then they might never even know, since most tickets drop off after three years.

However, even if they do know, in many cases they won’t raise your car insurance rates anyway. This depends mostly on whether or not the speeding ticket that you got was your first one. Like with at fault accident, most car insurance companies are willing to offer you forgiveness for your first serious moving violation without it affecting anything such as your rates or your safe driver discount. It’s also true that in many states the car insurance companies are required to let your first speeding ticket go by law.

Cheers,

Fashun Guadarrama.