Driver license points — North Carolina Permit Test

If you accumulate seven driver license points you may be assigned to a driver improvement clinic, and completing it deducts three points from your record.

The clinic is a chance to turn a bad run around before it costs the license. Finishing it takes points off.

If you accumulate seven points, you may be assigned to a driver improvement clinic.

Accumulating as many as 12 points within a three-year period may result in suspension of your license.

Twelve points is four stop-sign runs or three school-bus passes in three years. The state reads that as a driver who will not change.

If you accumulate as many as 12 points within a three-year period, your license may be suspended.

After a license is reinstated, accumulating eight points within three years can result in a second suspension.

A driver who has already lost the license once gets less rope. The second suspension comes at eight, not twelve.

The accumulation of eight points within three years following the reinstatement of your license can result in a second suspension.

A license suspended under the point system may be taken for 60 days for the first suspension, 6 months for the second, and 12 months for the third.

Each suspension is longer than the last. The system is built to get worse for a driver who does not change.

If your driver license is suspended by the point system, it may be taken for: • 60 days for the first suspension; • 6 months for the second; and • 12 months for the third.

When your driving privilege is reinstated, all previous driver license points are canceled, but insurance points are not.

Reinstatement is a fresh start with the DMV. Your insurer keeps its own count and does not wipe it.

When your driving privilege is reinstated, all previous driver license points are canceled. This does not pertain to insurance points.

Insurance companies use a different point system from the DMV to determine insurance rates.

Two scorekeepers, two scores. A ticket can cost you nothing with the DMV and still raise your premium.

Insurance companies use a different point system to determine insurance rates.

At how many driver license points may you be assigned to a driver improvement clinic?

Seven points. The clinic is a chance to turn a bad run around before it costs the license. Finishing it takes points off. North Carolina Driver Handbook, p.34: “If you accumulate seven points, you may be assigned to a driver improvement clinic.”