Speeding suspensions — North Carolina Permit Test

Your driving privilege is revoked for at least 30 days if you are convicted of driving more than 15 mph over the limit while going faster than 55 mph.

Fifteen over at highway speed is a crash waiting for a reason. The state takes the license straight away, points or no points.

Your driving privilege will be revoked for at least 30 days if you are convicted of: • Driving any vehicle more than 15 miles per hour over the speed limit, if you are driving at a speed higher than 55 mph.

The privilege is taken for 60 days for a second conviction within one year of speeding over 55 mph and more than 15 mph over the limit, or for speeding plus reckless driving on the same occasion.

Doing it twice in a year, or doing it recklessly, doubles the time off the road.

It will be taken for 60 days if you are convicted of: • A second charge of speeding over 55 mph and more than 15 mph above the speed limit within one year; or • Speeding plus reckless driving on the same occasion.

Two convictions of speeding over 55 mph within 12 months, or one of speeding over 55 and one of reckless driving within a year, can also cost you your driving privilege.

The speeds the state worries about are the ones over 55. Two of those in a year is enough on their own.

Two convictions of speeding over 55 mph within a period of 12 months;

A conviction for willful racing with another vehicle, whether prearranged or unplanned, can bring suspension of your driving privilege.

Racing does not have to be organized to count. Two drivers deciding to race at a light is enough for the law.

A conviction of willful racing with another motor vehicle, whether it is prearranged or unplanned;

If your driving privilege is revoked you may have a right to a hearing, and if the hearing gives no help you may appeal the DMV’s decision within 30 days to the Superior Court of your county.

A revocation can be challenged, but not forever. Thirty days is the window to take it to a judge.

If you believe your driving privilege should not have been revoked and the hearing gives you no help, you may appeal the DMV’s decision within 30 days to the Superior Court of the county where you live.

Driving more than 15 mph over the limit at a speed above 55 mph brings a revocation of at least how long?

30 days. Fifteen over at highway speed is a crash waiting for a reason. The state takes the license straight away, points or no points. North Carolina Driver Handbook, p.36: “Your driving privilege will be revoked for at least 30 days if you are convicted of: • Driving any vehicle more than 15 miles per hour over the speed limit, if you are driving at a speed higher than 55 mph.”