Looking for the best car insurance rate can be tricky, especially since companies offer different premium prices. Premiums are calculated according to factors such as your driving history and your vehicle’s qualities.

In terms of driving history, having several car tickets will affect how companies compute your premium. Because you have violated the law, you will be deemed a high-risk client, which means you are obviously susceptible to damaging accidents. But not all tickets make you appear as a high risk. There are minor, major, and serious convictions, so it depends on what you have received. Parking tickets, for example, usually don’t influence your insurance rate. Other minor tickets of similar quality are crowding the driver’s seat, failing to signal, not using seatbelts, overloading, speeding, improper turn, unsafe or prohibited turn, unnecessary noise, and the like.

Then, there are the major tickets, which include driving without insurance, failing to report an accident, failing to stop or improper passing in a school zone, speeding at a construction zone, false insurance statement, and speeding over 60 mph or the set limit of your province.

The serious tickets that make you a high risk client are careless driving, mo-or manslaughter, failing to obey police, failing to remain at an accident scene, driving with blood alcohol over the province’s set limit, and criminal negligence. If you have any of these tickets, then talk to an insurance agents about your options. You probably won’t have a problem with minor tickets, but it helps to get the facts straight. Several minor tickets may also mean you are on your way to being a high risk, but that also depends on the kind of tickets issued. Paying fines on time helps, as it shows you do your duties after the violation.