partypup is right. I had a red light ticket. It got mailed to my old place. I never got it b/c I moved. I moved like 3 different times since I got the ticket. I didn’t even know I got the ticket.
I didn’t find out until like 5 years later when I got pulled over for something else. The cop said I had a failure to appear on a ticket. There was no warrant. I took care of it only b/c I was scared that it would go to collections. I heard they can send it to collections and it could affect your credit.
But looking back, they had 5 years to send it to collections and they didn’t. Probably the only reason to pay it would be if you didn’t want to be bothered by a bored cop running plates that may need an excuse to pull you over.
