Yolo County Traffic School

Yolo County runs from the ridges on the Lake and Napa county lines east to the Sacramento River. Interstate 80 crosses its southern end from Solano County through Davis and West Sacramento into Sacramento. Interstate 5 comes in from Colusa County past Dunnigan to Woodland, and Interstate 505 splits off near Dunnigan to head south past Winters. State Route 113 connects Woodland and Davis, State Route 16 brings traffic from Rumsey, Guinda and Esparto into Woodland, and State Route 84 runs south out of West Sacramento. The Census Bureau counts 224,410 residents, and the county has four cities: Davis, Woodland, West Sacramento and Winters.

The California Office of Traffic Safety counted 1,250 people killed or injured in Yolo County crashes in 2023, 13th of California's 58 counties. A rank of 1st would be the worst in the state. The numbers that stand out belong to people outside a car. Crashes killed or injured 69 bicyclists, 5th in the state, and 69 pedestrians, 8th. Davis weighs heavily in the bicycle count, with 30 bicyclists killed or injured there in the OTS city table for the same year.

All of those roads lead to one building. The court lists a single courthouse, 1000 Main Street in Woodland, built in 2015 with 14 courtrooms to replace seven separate court facilities. The CHP's Woodland Area patrols the county's highways and unincorporated roads, so a CHP ticket on Interstate 5 at Dunnigan and a city police ticket in Davis both go to the Traffic Division there, at (530) 406-6702. If a website gives you another Woodland court address, go by your citation and the court's contact page. Drivers under 18 go to the same Traffic Division, and the court requires them to appear with a parent or legal guardian.

Traffic school starts with the court's permission. Its adult traffic page warns that the court rejects the completion of a driver who attends without that permission or without paying the state-mandated administration fee. To ask, pay the bail on your courtesy notice plus the court's administrative fee at the clerk's office, or mail the request to Traffic Violator School at the courthouse. The court sets that fee, and its traffic page gives the current amount.

You can also ask in the courtroom. At your arraignment, ask the judicial officer for traffic school. If it is granted, the court's advisement of rights sets one date to pay the fine and administrative fee and another to finish the course. Miss the payment and traffic school is gone, the offense shows as a conviction on your driving record and the court adds a penalty.

The court's language access plan names Spanish, Russian, Punjabi, Dari and Mandarin as the top five non-English languages spoken in the county. Mirai Traffic School teaches the whole course in English, Spanish, Japanese and Russian, which covers the first two languages on that list.