Pleasant Hill Traffic School

The Census Bureau estimates 34,017 residents in Pleasant Hill on July 1, 2025, on 7.075 square miles of land. Interstate 680 crosses the city, and State Route 242 splits from it here. Northbound exit 49A leads onto Contra Costa Boulevard, the old State Route 21, and exit 49B serves Monument Boulevard and Gregory Lane. Monument Boulevard is named for a World War I memorial that stood at its corner with Contra Costa Boulevard from 1927 until 1954.

Tickets in Pleasant Hill come from two agencies. The Pleasant Hill Police Department patrols city streets such as Gregory Lane and Pleasant Hill Road. Highway Patrol officers cover Interstate 680 and State Route 242, and the California Highway Patrol's Contra Costa, Dublin, Marin and Oakland Areas serve Contra Costa County. Both agencies send their tickets to Contra Costa County Superior Court, and its traffic school rules are the same for each.

The state Office of Traffic Safety compares Pleasant Hill with California cities of 25,001 to 50,000 people. For 2023 it counted 114 people killed or injured in Pleasant Hill crashes, 48th of 93, where 1st is the worst. Speed-related crashes that killed or hurt someone numbered 16, 45th, and 9 pedestrians were killed or injured, 46th. Police made 68 DUI arrests.

Pleasant Hill's Local Road Safety Plan, a final report dated September 7, 2022, counted about 1,044 reported collisions from 2017 through 2021, and 39 of them killed or severely injured someone. It found unsafe speed most common on the major arterials, Contra Costa Boulevard, Taylor Boulevard and Monument Boulevard, above all in the evening commute, when they carry cut-through traffic on top of local trips. Speeding was the main factor in 54 percent of collisions at Contra Costa Boulevard and Golf Club Road. The city has also been awarded federal Safe Streets for All funding to develop a citywide Safety Action Plan.

Tickets written in Pleasant Hill go to Contra Costa County Superior Court, whose page for the Walnut Creek Juvenile and Traffic Center at 640 Ygnacio Valley Road names Pleasant Hill among the communities its traffic court serves. That building hears traffic under DMV court code 07480, and the court's number is (925) 608-1000. The court's Where to File table puts Pleasant Hill's 94523 ZIP code beside the Wakefield Taylor Courthouse in Martinez, but that table covers other kinds of cases. The reminder notice the court mails names the courthouse for your case.

You ask the court for traffic school, and the courtesy notice says whether your ticket can go that way. Contra Costa County Superior Court charges the fine and a traffic school administrative fee of its own, and the notice lists both with your due date. Mirai Traffic School's course is a separate $24.99. The county's rule is a valid California license and no traffic school in California in the past 18 months, counted from one violation date to the next. The final decision belongs to the court.

Mirai Traffic School reports your completion to the DMV electronically, and the court retrieves it from there. Contra Costa says online schools send it an electronic certificate but that making sure it arrives is your responsibility, so check your case before the due date and confirm your name, license number and court code 07480. A finished course keeps one conviction in any 18-month period confidential and off your driving record.