Oklahoma Driving Points System

[Drkatzjr45]

This system has always confused me -- wondering if anyone could help?

You will often hear a record called in with about 30 or 40 citations to their record
and then dispatch will say "current point level zero."

I guess it must be calculating only --recent events-- in your history (?)


Also, I was shocked to know that (at least the OHP) can call your record back even into the 1980's
I've heard many of these...... I always thought they held it for 7 years and then
gave you a blank slate of sorts----so if you were speeding in 1984 it may be on a record.

 

[SCPD]

I guess it must be calculating only --recent events-- in your history (?)

I think that "recent history" means citations since they passed the law that setup the point system. anything before that did not count.

 

[Freqed]

Points are obtained for certain violations, some violations will earn you more than others. When you get your first point violation ticket it will remain on your record for 3 years. when you get more violations they will add to you current point level. You can get points removed I believe by taking a court approved driving class, but as to how many times in a period you can do this I don't know. Now the next thing I am hearing is that officers will say " I wrote you @ 9 Mph over the limit so it won't go to your insurance. I don't know if this means you get no Points or if it means it won't show on your driving record.....

It always amazes me on some of the records I hear returned on some drivers! I don't know when or even if the citations are removed from your record, but it sounds like they never go away.

 

[car2back]

I think if you can go 3yrs w/ no new traffic entries, they will all be wiped fromyour record. any departmental actions will remain indefinatly. Just what I've told not for sure tho

 

[kjwilson]

Straight from the "Oklahoma Driver's Manual"

OKLAHOMA MANDATORY POINT SYSTEM
The Mandatory Point System is a method by which the Department of Public Safety monitors your driving. You start with a clean record—no points. Each time you are convicted of a pointable traffic violation, you are assessed one or more points on your driver’s record. If you accumulate 10 or more points within five years, your license will be suspended.
Points can be reduced as discussed below.
A driver convicted of these offenses, in any court, anywhere, having authority over these violations, will be assessed as follows:

OFFENSE
Violation of license restriction .....2
Reckless driving .....4
Careless driving .....2
Speed .....2
Speed in excess of 25 mph above posted limit .....3
Failure to stop or remain stopped for a school bus loading or unloading .....4
Following too close or improperly .....2
Failure to obey stop sign or traffic light .....2
Failure to yield right of way .....2
Left of center or wrong way on one way .....2
Operating a defective vehicle .....1
All other violations (excluding the violations requiring suspension or revocation action) .....1

Two (2) points are deducted for each 12-month period in which there are no convictions of any pointable traffic violations. Points are reduced to zero if there are no traffic violation convictions for three consecutive years.
Two (2) points are deducted for successful completion of a DPS-approved Driver Improvement or Defensive Driving Course. Credit for completing the course can be given once every 24 months. The point total can’t go below zero.

Current point level means exactly that. If you run up 30 tickets over 15 years or so and then stay out of trouble for 3 years all of your points will be wiped. (Been there, done that. Call it youthful inexperience.) And they can go pretty far back in the records, they can tell me all about mine but I started driving in '85.

 

[Freqed]

Another thing is to watch your point level, when I was young I got a ticket for a red light violation, well one day a friend of mine ran my record and it showed up on my record twice, he said "You got two tickets in one day?" and my insurance had been charging me for it. When I went to the courthouse to see why someone had enter it in the system 2 times. After they couldn't find a hard copy for the second entry they droped it.

 

[kjwilson]

Another thing is to watch your point level, when I was young I got a ticket for a red light violation, well one day a friend of mine ran my record and it showed up on my record twice, he said "You got two tickets in one day?" and my insurance had been charging me for it. When I went to the courthouse to see why someone had enter it in the system 2 times. After they couldn't find a hard copy for the second entry they droped it.

Gee, that sounds like a speeding ticket I got in '94. I paid it and got picked up in '04 on a bench warrant for not paying and spent the night in Tulsa County. Turns out the someone in the court clerks office entered it twice under different case numbers. It never hurts to check this stuff once in a while.

 

[Chaos703]

I had a nice $144 surprise this weekend. I got tapped for speeding as I was leaving the city limits in Crescent in Logan county. I was guilty. But I *S H O C K E D* to find out that my license had expired in October 2008. Never even occurred to me to keep an eye on it because I had just renewed it in 2005. Since when do our license expire in 3 years?

Even the dispatcher sounded confused (I was listening in my car as he ran me).

By the way, if you ever have to get a ticket, get it in Crescent. I felt like was being ticked by Sheriff Taylor from Mayberry. Nicest guy.

 

[n5usr]

Hm, you made me pull mine out to check. I renewed mine in 2007, but it's good until 2011 - four years! The last one was good for four as well, and know the one before that was good for seven. I didn't realize the 7-year one had expired either, until I pulled up to the gate at Ft. Sill one day to do some HVAC work. This was around August 2003 and security was still quite a Big Deal - vehicle searches and all that whenever we went in. Fortunately, they let me in and just told me to get a new one at lunch!

 

[Freqed]

I had a nice $144 surprise this weekend. I got tapped for speeding as I was leaving the city limits in Crescent in Logan county. I was guilty. But I *S H O C K E D* to find out that my license had expired in October 2008. Never even occurred to me to keep an eye on it because I had just renewed it in 2005. Since when do our license expire in 3 years?

Even the dispatcher sounded confused (I was listening in my car as he ran me).

By the way, if you ever have to get a ticket, get it in Crescent. I felt like was being ticked by Sheriff Taylor from Mayberry. Nicest guy.

The real shocker is yet to come, wait til you get to the DMV.........

 

[Chaos703]

The real shocker is yet to come, wait til you get to the DMV.........

No freaking kidding. I'm still in denial that I actually have to go in. I'm a small businessman and the most expensive part of this entire event will be the time away from the office while trying to cope with government employees. As a matter of fact, despite being a life long cyclist, I have never gotten my motorcycle endorsement out of fear of the DVM. And how long has it been since they instituted that? 20 years?

 

[car2back]

Shoulda got it when they first instituted it, My father did , no tests, and has never owned a motorcycle, go figure. Got it "just in case" :lol: