While speeding tickets in Washington State have become customary, many people are cited for a host of other traffic and non-traffic offenses.

By clicking on the links in this section, you can find information about some of the more common types of traffic infractions.

For driving violations, one important item to note is that not ever ticket marked “traffic” is a moving violation; rather, a “traffic” ticket means that a person is accused of violating some aspect of the law involving vehicles or vehicular traffic. A traffic infraction could be issued to a pedestrian, for example, because the particular code for which the person is cited is a traffic infraction.

Typically, moving violations affect a person’s insurance and driving privilege, whereas non-moving violations typically have no such effect. Still, it is important to consult with an experienced traffic attorney to determine the effects, if any, a particular offense has on a person’s privilege to drive and on a person’s insurance.

Sometimes, a person is not interacting with traffic and receives a non-traffic offense. The link on non-traffic offenses provides more information about non-traffic offenses and civil infractions.

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Failure to Yield to Emergency Vehicle/Right of Way

In Washington State, one of the most misunderstood offenses is that of RCW 46.61.212, failure to yield to an emergency vehicle.

HOV (Carpool) Lane

In Washington State, RCW 46.61.165 makes a violation of restricted HOV lanes a traffic infraction. Also known as carpool violations, unlike in some ot...

Negligent Driving (Second Degree)

Negligent driving in Washington State is always a serious offense; however, there is a major difference between negligent driving in the first degree ...

No Insurance

In Washington State, police officers often pull over drivers for a road violation such as running a stop sign, making an improper lane change, or spee...

Non-Traffic Offenses

In Washington State, non-traffic offenses can be anything from misdemeanors, gross misdemeanors, and felonies that are not under the criminal or traff...

Other Traffic Offenses

When evaluating whether to fight a ticket for a traffic offense, it is imperative to keep in mind what kind of ticket or offense with which one has be...

Stop Sign and Other Sign Violations

Some of the more common rules of the road violations in Washington State are stop sign and other types of manual traffic control device violations. Ma...

Vehicular Equipment Violations

Tickets for defective equipment under RCW 46 are very common in Washington State. In fact, one of the most common reasons drivers get stopped by the p...