Many motorists in the past who repeatedly violate the Mayflower Vehicle Code discover that their driver’s license has been suspended only after being pulled over by law enforcement. Back then, there was little indication that the suspension even occurred, leaving drivers unaware until enforcement action is taken. A recent update now notifies when your license gets suspended.
Regardless, the suspension process operates largely out of public view. Rather than it being backed by legal instruments, the system’s mechanics are controlled by developers, with its inner-workings remaining inaccessible to both lawmakers and the public. After looking into it, M-SPAN has uncovered the inner mechanisms of this little-understood system and the factors that determine when a driver’s license is suspended.
A Point Demerit System
In Mayflower, license suspensions are determined based on a point demerit system. Some defined traffic crimes are worth certain amount of demerit points. Points are issued towards a drivers license automatically whenever a driver is cited or arrested, and can stack if the driver is charged with multiple traffic violations at the same time.
Points on a license, if the driver doesn’t gain any additional demerit points, automatically resets back to 0 after 24 hours. If a driver, however, attains 3 demerit points, their license is automatically suspended for 24 hours. After the 24 hours, the driver’s points is reset back to 0.
In practice, an example of how a driver can get their license suspends may look like something this.
A driver gets cited for a 1-point violation every 23 hours. Since he or she got cited right before the 24 hour mark, the timer gets restarted. After the driver accumulated 3 points in 46 hours, his or her license is suspended for 24 hours. Any points accumulated during this suspension period will automatically be reset back to 0 after the suspension ends.
Traffic Violation Points
This list is outdated, but the likely # of points associated per a traffic violation are as follows:
| Traffic Violation | Points |
|---|---|
| Felony Evasion | 3 |
| Felony Hit and Run | 2 |
| Hit and Run | 2 |
| Reckless Driving1 | 2 |
| Failure to Yield to Emergency Vehicles | 1 |
| Failure to Stop at a Traffic Control Device | 1 |
| Failure to Stop at a Traffic Control Sign | 1 |
| Dangerous Lane Change | 1 |
| Obstruction of Traffic2 | 2 |
| Driving Without Headlights at Night | 1 |
| Improper Lane of Travel | 1 |
| Driving in a No-Commercial-Vehicle Zone | 1 |
| Excessive Speeding | 2 |
| Felony Obstruction of a Vehicle Pursuit | 2 |
| Operating a Commercial Vehicle Without Valid CDL | 2 |
| Driving Without a License3 | 2 |
| Import of Prohibited Goods | 4 |
| Vehicular Homicide | 4 |
| Failure to Comply with an Inspection | 2 |
| Street Racing | 2 |
| Operating a Unroadworthy Vehicle | 1 |
| Careless Driving4 | 2 |
| Failure to Maintain Lanes | 1 |
| Impeding Traffic | 1 |
| Interference with a Traffic Control Sign | 1 |
| Interference with a Traffic Control Device | 1 |
| Operating a Class IV Motor Vehicle outside of Designated Hours (1-3am)5 | 1 |
| Unlawful Use of Warning Lights | 1 |
| Unlawful Disposure of a Motor Vehicle into a Fish Habitat | 1 |
- Felony Reckless Driving, for an unknown reason, does not issue any points. ↩︎
- Obstruction of Traffic, as is in the Vehicle Code, applies to pedestrian. The game and law does not make a distinction between drivers and pedestrians who obstruct traffic. ↩︎
- This is completely redundant due to the fact that points issued whilst suspended don’t do anything and automatically reset after the suspension ends. ↩︎
- This is, for some reason, worth the same amount of points as reckless driving. ↩︎
- This crime is not enforced nor active. ↩︎
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