I got a written warning today for speeding. How long does this stay on my record and will it effect my insurance? To complicate matters, I live in Illinois but the warning was in Indiana.
I have never been pulled over before, and I have been driving for ten years.
FYI, the police officer gave me a written warning instead of a ticket because he appreciated the kind, cooperative, and respectful manner with which I addressed him.
It will not effect your insurance, you have to buy a policy for that, it also should not affect your insurance.
Consider your self warned!!! 
Other than that, no record. Though the department in question may keep a record handy to the dispatcher… just in case there is a “next time.”
So says my father - part time dispatcher.
Now what? Slow down. 
But the question is: will this affect your insurance?
No, I don’t think warnings are entered onto your official driving record. It shouldn’t affect your insurance.
However, no one I know has ever gotten more than one warning, so I suspect that the cops make a note of the fact that a warning was issued. The next time you get pulled over, you’ll get an honest-to-God ticket.
So slow down, Speed Racer
In Iowa, I know that written warnings are recorded, because when I pulled a license (as a dispatcher) they would appear.
Whether or not this is given to insurance, I don’t know, but it wasn’t just “in house” – any police officer in the state saw the written warning.
No it won’t, and it also won’t affect your insurance.
Good to have this assurance.
Dang, I make a snarky post and people mistake it for a double post.
A few years ago, when a cop asked me why I thought he had pulled me over, I replied blatantly “because I was speeding.” After taking my license and registration, he returned about 10 minutes later with a written warning. He said I would be in their computer system for a year, so if I got pulled over again, I should expect a ticket.
I was impressed. I was in a municipality with budgetary problems, so I was surprised that the cop wasn’t just trying to fill a quota to bring in more revenue for the county. Ever since, out of respect for that cop, I’ve driven much slower on that one stretch of road. 
flight, you walk on water!
What about verbal warnings? Do they get recorded anywhere at all?
Verbal warnings only get recorded in the mind of the cop. There’s always a chance he/she’ll remember you the next time. :rolleyes:
Try to affect a snarkier tone and perhaps it’ll effect the desired response.
You’ll need to except that everyone accept you will misunderstand, though.
flight, not only do you walk on water, you turn it into wine!
And flaunting the warning is a receipt for disaster.
Last week I got pulled over for speeding. The cop wrote a ticket for failing to obey a traffic control sign which is a zero point offense. He was trying to be nice to me. I wonder, if I contested it and said I did not disobey a sign he would be able to reply “sure he did, the sign that said 65 mph speed limit.” I have no intention of doing this, since he was trying to save me points and if I screw with him the next person will surely get the speeding ticket, but I am just curious. It was in PA, btw.
Did you find out if it will affect your insurance?
Oh, and my advice: roll it up and smoke it.
God, I need a cigarette.