1. Sara Lavoie Dir. of Enforcement Services Registry of Motor Vehicles
A 5 Year Look at Junior Operator Violations
Sara Lavoie
Dir. of Enforcement Services
Registry of Motor Vehicles

2. 2018 MOVING TOGETHER CONFERENCE
AGENDA
Phones, Friends, Late Nights
Fatality Stats ages 16-20
2018 East Bridgewater Crash
2018 MOVING TOGETHER CONFERENCE
Junior operators are drivers between the age of 16½ and 18.  As a junior operator, you are subject to all driver's license suspensions. Amendments to legislation impose increased penalties for certain violations issued to junior operators.  These include the Junior Operator Law and the Safe Driver Law.  The purpose of the Junior Operator Law is to reduce teen driver crash rates and deaths.  You must serve any imposed suspension to completion even if you reach the age of 18 before the period ends.  All junior operator suspensions are mandatory suspensions by law.  Junior operators are not eligible for hardship licenses.
Reinstatement requirements vary based between a Junior Operator's License and a learner's permit.
Depending on the violation, junior operators may need to:
Complete a Driver Attitudinal Retraining Course
Complete the State Courts Against Road Rage (SCARR) program
Pay a reinstatement fee, ranging from $100 - $1,000
Take a full exam which includes both the learner's permit exam and road test

3. Texting! STOP! Year All Violations JOL Specific 2013 4,152 68 2014
5,357 75
2015
6,854
110
2016
9,478 99
2017
8,575
105
Section 8M. No person under 18 years of age shall use a mobile telephone, hands-free mobile telephone or mobile electronic device while operating a motor vehicle on any public way. For the purposes of this section, a junior operator shall not be considered to be operating a motor vehicle if the vehicle is stationary and not located in a part of the public way intended for travel.
A junior operator who violates the preceding paragraph shall be punished by a fine of $100 and shall have his license or permit suspended for 60 days for a first offense and shall not be eligible for license reinstatement until he also completes a program selected by the registrar that encourages attitudinal changes in young drivers; for a second offense by a fine of $250 and shall have his license or permit suspended for 180 days; and for a third or subsequent offense by a fine of $500 and shall have his license or permit suspended for 1 year.
Teens: Go Off the Grid; Put your phone/backpack in trunk; Tell your parents & friends to Stop; Sign a Pledge; Share distracted driving posts on social

4. JOL Time Restrictions No operation 12:30am to 5am Year Violations 201349
2014 17
2015 19
2016 16
2017
  No person holding a junior operator's license shall operate a motor vehicle between the hours of 12:30 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. unless accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. The holder of a junior operator's license shall have the license in his possession at all times when operating a motor vehicle. A junior operator who violates the time restriction provided in this paragraph shall be deemed to be operating a motor vehicle without being duly licensed under this chapter. In addition to the penalty provided in section 10, the license of a junior operator deemed to be operating a motor vehicle without being duly licensed shall be suspended for 60 days for a first offense, for 180 days for a second offense and for 1 year for a third or subsequent offense; provided, however, that for such operation between the hours of 12:30 a.m. and 1:00 a.m. and between 4:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m., this paragraph shall be enforced by law enforcement agencies only when a junior operator has been lawfully stopped for a violation of the motor vehicles laws or for some other offense. A junior operator whose license is suspended for a second or subsequent violation of this paragraph shall not be eligible for license reinstatement until he also completes a program selected by the registrar that encourages attitudinal changes in young drivers who have committed a violation of the motor vehicle laws. The registrar may exempt a junior operator from the time restriction if the junior operator is an emancipated minor.
5 ACTIVE SUSPENSIONS FOR THIS

5. Passenger Restrictions
No friends for 6 months after full license issued
Year
Violations
2013
570
2014
539
2015
502
2016
497
2017
  No person holding a junior operator's license shall operate a motor vehicle during the first 6 months of licensure while a person under 18 years of age, other than the operator or an immediate family member of the operator, is present in the vehicle unless also accompanied by another person, duly licensed by his state of residence, who is at least 21 years of age with at least 1 year of driving experience and who is occupying a seat beside the driver. A junior operator who violates this paragraph shall have his license suspended for 60 days for a first offense, for 180 days for a second offense and for 1 year for a third or subsequent offense.
32 ACTIVE SUSPENSIONS FOR THIS. – THIS PLUS SPEEDING, THIS PLUS MARKED LANES VIOLATION , THIS ITSELF, NOTES IN THE SYSTEM

6. Massachusetts Fatalities
Ages 16 to 20
2016 36
2015 24
2014
2013 31
2012 41

7. 2018 Preliminary Junior Operator & Passenger Fatalities
2 Fatal Crashes = 5 Fatalities
1 Operator - Age 17
3 Passenger - Ages 17
1 Passenger - Age 16
2018 MOVING TOGETHER CONFERENCE

8. 2018 MOVING TOGETHER CONFERENCE
East Bridgewater Crash Involving 5 Teens from Stoughton - Operator Survives
2018 MOVING TOGETHER CONFERENCE

9. Surviving Operator
Immediate Threat to Public Safety