Is Speeding Careless Driving? How To Get Careless Driving Dismissed

If you’re caught going more than 50 km/h over the speed limit your excessive speed ticket will come with no fine. It orders you to appear in front of a judge to determine your excess speed fine and other penalties involved. The police often issue a Careless Driving charge along with an excessive speed summons. That’s an additional 6-demerit offence that crushes your insurance premiums.

Read up on the impact of Careless Driving tickets and you’ll discover that’s an intimidating prospect on its own.

So, Can You Get a Careless Driving Ticket Dismissed?

Absolutely! In every Careless Driving case we deal with, getting the Careless Driving ticket withdrawn is step one in the negotiation… and it happens every single time. The courts realize this piggy back charge is overkill for the event and we will get that charge withdrawn. We want the court’s focus to be exclusively on the excessive speed summons.

This is one example of how to get a Careless Driving ticket dismissed, but there are many other situations where we can get that done as well, or at the very least, get the Careless Driving charge reduced to a much lesser charge.That protects your insurance rates from a nasty increase. Contact us for a free consultation and we’ll walk you through the many ways we can help.

Is Careless Driving Worse than Speeding?

Yes, it certainly is. We won’t lie, an excessive speed summons is a big deal and you can read up on its impact here, but when it comes to Careless Driving vs speeding ticket…a careless driving ticket is the most serious moving violation in Alberta traffic law, with the same effect on insurance rates as an impaired driving conviction ….thousands of dollars extra per year on your insurance rates for the next three years!

We Know How to Get Careless Driving Dismissed or Reduced

In more than 36 years defending Alberta drivers, we’ve never lost a Careless Driving case.

We can get you out from under this very serious violation, and we’ll tell you how during our free, no pressure, consultation. So contact us now!