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QuestionInsurance Question  My son is 16 years old and has been driving for about 2 1/2 weeks. Saturday night at 11:30 pm (after his 9:00 driving N.C. curfew) he ran a stop sign, went into a ditch and turn his car upside down. He was ticketed for failing to comply with restrictions on the face of his license and failing to stop for a stop sign. Will he lose his license?

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Your son will need to find out for certain if he will lose his license due to the crash, moving violation and failure to comply with the restrictions on his license by contacting either the court listed on his citation or the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles.

It sounds as if your son is on level two of the North Carolina graduated licensing process. This would mean he has a limited provisional license. When you have this type of license you have the following restrictions:

  • Drivers must be at least 16 years old, but less than 18.

  • All passengers must be restrained by seat belt or child safety seat.

  • Supervising driver must be seated beside the driver.

  • You may drive without supervision from 5 a.m. until 9 p.m. and at any time when driving directly to or from work or any volunteer fire, rescue or EMS (emergency medical service), if you are a member.

  • When the license holder is driving the vehicle and is not accompanied by the supervising driver, there may be no more than one passenger under 21 years of age in the vehicle. This limit does not apply to passengers who are members of the license holder's immediate family or whose primary residence is the same household as the license holder. However, if a family member or member of the same household as the license holder who is younger than 21 years of age is a passenger in the vehicle, no other passengers under 21 years of age who are not member of the license holder's immediate family or members of the license holder's household, may be in the vehicle.

Before graduating to Level Three, you must keep this license for at least 6 months and have no convictions of moving violations or seat belt infractions within the preceding six months. 

Failure to comply with a restriction concerning the time of driving or the presence of a supervising driver in the vehicle constitutes operating a motor vehicle without a license. Failure to comply with any other restriction, including seating and passenger
limitations, is an infraction punishable by a monetary penalty.

The NC DMV reviews a provisional licensee's driving record closely and may contact the individual if they have certain types of traffic violations or crashes. So it is likely that the NC DMV will be contacting your son due to his accident, citation and failure to comply with his restrictions.

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