need advice about speeding ticket

[sockittome]

Hello all,

I dont know if Im posting in the right spot but here it goes. I just graduated from nursing school and submitted an application to the BRN. At the time of my application I did not have anything to disclose, not even a speeding ticket. However right before graduation I did get a speeding ticket. It took several weeks to receive the letter and pay the ticket. My plan was to pay the ticket and send in documentation the BRN. I just recently received everything I needed from the court. In the meantime I did take my NCLEX and become licensed. I was on the board website today trying to find out where to send my documents when I read something about disclosing tickets etc IMMEDIATELY! Now Im afraid they will think I was purposefully not disclosing information. Im sick and don't know what to do?? Any advice??

[HippyDippyLPN]

Your telling me that there are people who get their first DUI resulting in only a misdemeanor, and I go 20 mph over posted speed I may get a felony? I know this is off topic but damn those punishments are skewed. I agree with PP that its a bit extreme that speeding tickets are being involved that should only matter if your transporting.

[KelRN215, BSN, RN]

You can get dinged with reckless just on speed alone. In VA, reckless driving is defined as going over 80 mph or going more than 35 mph over the posted limit.

I have been a passenger in a car in Virginia that got pulled over doing 83 in a 55. My friend was not given a speeding ticket, he was given a summons to appear in court for reckless driving. The good old county sheriff cared not that we were a group of college students who were in Virginia on a spring break service trip and were already late to catch our bus back to Massachusetts. Fortunately my friend's father was a lawyer and made the whole thing go away but, my point is, if they want to get you for reckless driving, you'd get more than a simple speeding ticket.

I've had a speeding ticket and it never once occurred to me to notify the BON.

[ComeTogether, LPN]

I have been a passenger in a car in Virginia that got pulled over doing 83 in a 55. My friend was not given a speeding ticket, he was given a summons to appear in court for reckless driving. The good old county sheriff cared not that we were a group of college students who were in Virginia on a spring break service trip and were already late to catch our bus back to Massachusetts. Fortunately my friend's father was a lawyer and made the whole thing go away but, my point is, if they want to get you for reckless driving, you'd get more than a simple speeding ticket.

I've had a speeding ticket and it never once occurred to me to notify the BON.

Thats what I was trying to say. That the ticket wouldn't be for speeding, but for reckless driving.

[Meriwhen, ASN, BSN, MSN, RN]

VA is notorious for its ticketing, especially if you are an out-of-state driver.

[green34]

I know in my state, for it to be a felony you would need to be doing double the speed limit. One guy was trying to become a teacher and he couldn't because he did a 50 in a 25.