So you need to take an 8-Hour Basic Driver Improvement course eh? A Basic Driver Improvement (BDI) 8 hour course can be taken for the following reasons:

• If you receive a ticket for a non-criminal moving violation, and
• if you elected to attend a 4 hour basic driving improvement course within the past 12 month, you may elect to attend an 8 hour basic driver improvement course in lieu of points on your driving record.

Note: This option is available in select counties only, so it is important to check with the clerk of court for the county in which you received your citation prior to electing an 8-hour basic driver improvement course.

Not all counties offer this as an elected option.

In most cases, a judge or magistrate ordered you to attend an 8-hour basic driver improvement course. If you were court ordered read your court documents carefully.

Why should I take the course online?

If, as a result of a moving violation, you elected or was court ordered to complete a 8 hour basic driver improvement course, you will receive the following benefits:

• Your insurance rates cannot go up and your policy cannot be cancelled because of this violation, unless this involved a crash where you were at fault.
• Points may not be added to your driver license record,
• adjudication of guilt is withheld and,
• safe driver status is maintained.

If applicable, some Florida counties (very few) give traffic violators an incentive to go to traffic school by reducing the citation fine.

Note: You may not make an election under this subsection if you have made this election in the preceding 12 months. A person may make no more than five elections in a 10 year time frame.

Within 30 days from the date your received the traffic citation and prior to attending class, you must:

• Inform the Clerk of Court in the county where you received the citation that you want to go to traffic school, and
• Pay the fee to the Clerk of Court in the county where you received the citation.

Typically, a full list of your options for satisfying your traffic citation is either on the back of your citation OR, the officer provided you with a handout describing your options. As a responsible Florida driver you are required to choose one of the three options listed in that handout within 30 days of receiving the citation.

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