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Walk It Through: The Ticket

A notice of traffic infraction, twenty one days, and three ways to answer it.

A driver is handed a notice of traffic infraction for an illegal turn.

Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.

An ordinary traffic infraction with no crime involved. Excessive speeding, reckless driving and driving without a license are crimes, with pages of their own.

A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.

Words this turns on

Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.