Wyoming Traffic Violations

If you receive a citation for a traffic violation in Wyoming, you will be required to pay a fine to the local Wyoming town or municipality where you received the citation or the Wyoming county or state highway patrol office if you incurred the traffic ticket on the highway. Regardless of who you are beholden to, paying or disputing your traffic ticket is relatively simple in Wyoming.

On your citation, you will be able to find out where you can mail in your payment for your traffic violation or, alternatively, where you can go in person to provide payment. You can also likely find a phone number to call the Wyoming authority overseeing your traffic violation and ask any questions you may have regarding payment.

If you want to dispute your ticket, the process will likely depend on the size of the Wyoming town or county where you were issued the citation. In smaller Wyoming towns, traffic court hearings are held once per week. If that is the case, you will need to show up early in the morning on that date, sign up to have your case heard and wait in line until you are called before the court. At this time, you can either dispute the circumstances under which you were issued the traffic ticket, or you can plead guilty or no contest and request an opportunity to have the charges reduced or dismissed in exchange for your participation in some form of Wyoming traffic school or driver improvement program.

If you received your traffic violation in a larger county or urban area, such as Jackson or Cheyenne, then you will need to write into the address on your traffic citation, and request to have your case heard in court. After doing this, you will receive a response in the mail shortly after outlining the steps for you to take to either appear in court and dispute your case, or plead guilty. If you do not receive a written response with a week or so, you may want to call the phone number on your traffic violation to make sure your written request was received.

Suspension of Your Wyoming Driving Privileges

Drivers in Wyoming who commit traffic violations do not accumulate points on their driving record. However, the Wyoming Department of Transportation's Driver Services Program enforces road safety by tracking Wyoming driving records for multiple offenders.

If you commit four traffic violations within a one-year timeframe, the Wyoming Driver Services Program will suspend your Wyoming driving privileges for 90 days and require you to pay a fine of as much as $200. These penalties increase each time you qualify for suspension of your Wyoming driving privileges. Qualify a second time, and the fine will increase to $300 with the possibility of a month in Wyoming jail-though jail time is usually reserved for more serious traffic offenses, such as causing an injurious accident while under the influence of alcohol or narcotics. If somehow you manage to qualify a third time, the possibility of jail becomes very real and can be as long as six months. In any of these unfortunate situations, it is possible a Wyoming court will order you to participate in a Wyoming traffic school, driver improvement program or defensive driving course.

Attending Traffic School in Wyoming

You may be able to enroll in a Wyoming online defensive driving program or Wyoming online traffic school if the program is approved by the Wyoming court handling your traffic violation. If you are interested in attending a Wyoming online traffic school, either to fulfill an order by the Wyoming court you appear in front of or in exchange for having your traffic violation reduced or dismissed from your Wyoming driving record, you should simply ask the judge for permission to take the online traffic safety course you prefer, or call the Wyoming court overseeing your traffic violation and ask if the online traffic school course will suffice.

The Benefits of a Clean Wyoming Driving Record

Many Wyoming drivers also may want to enroll in a Wyoming online driver improvement program without ever incurring a traffic violation. Online traffic schools and driver improvement programs help you in several ways. Most importantly, participating in Wyoming's driver improvement program helps prevent your Wyoming driving privileges from being suspended or revoked should you be involved in future traffic violations. Participation in a Wyoming online traffic school will help prove to the Wyoming court you appear in front of see that you are committed to safe driving and do not pose a long-term threat to the safety of other Wyoming drivers and yourself.

Wyoming Mature Drivers

You will also be able to maintain lower car insurance payments by attending Wyoming defensive driving classes. Wyoming driver improvement programs help prevent your insurance premiums from being raised by your auto insurance provider, and could even qualify you for an insurance discount. Wyoming Mature Drivers, or those drivers over the age of 50, can complete online mature driver courses designed to lower their insurance premiums. To learn more about this opportunity, you should contact your auto insurance carrier or the AARP for details.

Wyoming Juvenile Drivers

Juvenile Wyoming drivers, or those under the age of 18, may be eligible for lower insurance premiums by participating in a Wyoming online driver improvement course. In addition to these benefits, online traffic school develops important defensive driving skills so that you can better avoid traffic violations in the future.

Wyoming Classroom Traffic Schools

If you are interested in participating in a Wyoming traffic school or Wyoming driver improvement program in a more traditional, brick-and-mortar style classroom setting, the Wyoming Department of Transportation or the Wyoming Court overseeing your current traffic violation can likely provide you with a list of state-approved in-person traffic school courses.