If you're from the UK and got a speeding ticket when you were in New Jersey and don't have a social security number so it wasn't on your ticket do you have to pay it and what are the consequences?

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I can't speak exactly for your situation, but I live in New Hampshire, & we got a ton of parking tickets in California over a period of 2 months. We never paid them, just went back to the east coast. The car died shortly after, which we knew it would, and its never come back to haunt us... That was about 7 years ago. I have had other speeding tickets & various since then-, & no mention of the parking tickets, but they've all been in New England. I could see it might come up if I got a ticket in California, or a neighboring state, or tried to apply for a license there. It's a gamble, I'm sure your aware. How much of a gamble depends if you have a US license, or are planning on applying for one; & wether you plan to drive in that state again. If your not, I'd say forget about it. Communication between non-neighboring states regarding small legal issues isn't that great, but better now than it was then, given computerization. If it did come up again, you would owe the ticket amount, plus penalties- probably based on how much time had passed, & if you had a US license, they would take it away until you paid it all.