Vacaville Traffic School

The Census Bureau estimates 103,850 residents in Vacaville on July 1, 2025. Interstate 80 and Interstate 505 both cross the city. According to the police department's Traffic Section, Vacaville covers about 29 square miles and has about 309 miles of public roadway and 29 schools.

Tickets in Vacaville come from two agencies. The Vacaville Police Department's Traffic Section investigates collisions and enforces traffic laws on city streets such as Alamo Drive, and its officers check speed by visual estimate, hand-held and moving radar and hand-held lidar. The department aims most of its enforcement at the parts of the city where most collisions happen. The California Highway Patrol's Solano Area serves residents and travelers across Solano County, including on Interstate 80 and Interstate 505. Either agency's ticket lands in Solano County Superior Court, and the traffic school rules there do not depend on who wrote it.

The California Office of Traffic Safety's 2023 rankings count 285 people killed or injured in Vacaville crashes, 46th of 62 cities of similar size, where 1st is the worst result. Bicycle safety stands out. Bicyclists killed or injured numbered 29, 13th in the group, and 7 of them were under 15, which ranks 8th. Speed-related crashes that killed or hurt someone numbered 59, 28th, and pedestrians killed or injured numbered 15, 53rd. The figures cover every road in the city, not fault in a single case.

The Traffic Section works through education, engineering and enforcement. Officers give safety talks in schools and at neighborhood meetings on DUI and on driver, bicycle and pedestrian safety, and they work with the Public Works Traffic Engineering Division on signs, signals and visual obstructions. The section runs DUI and driver's license checkpoints, funded in part by the Office of Traffic Safety. Its Vacaville Serious Traffic Offender Program, known as V-Stop, takes a no-tolerance approach to unlicensed and suspended drivers. Officers arrest those drivers and tow their vehicles. Residents can also ask for the radar trailer, which shows drivers their speed, on a neighborhood street.

Solano County Superior Court takes adult traffic cases from Vacaville. The court holds traffic arraignments and trials at the Hall of Justice, 600 Union Avenue in Fairfield, under DMV court code 48430, and the Fairfield traffic clerk answers at (707) 207-7360. The court's other traffic branch is the Solano Justice Building in Vallejo, and your citation and courtesy notice name the one that has your case.

The court, not the officer, decides on traffic school, and you have to ask for it. The court collects a traffic school fee along with the fine, and the courtesy notice gives the amounts and the finish date. Mirai Traffic School's $24.99 course is a separate payment. Solano County Superior Court asks for a valid driver's license, a moving infraction without any drug or alcohol violation, speed no more than 25 mph over the posted limit, and no traffic school for a violation in the prior 18 months, measured violation date to violation date. Commercial drivers cited in a commercial vehicle are not eligible.

Mirai Traffic School reports your completion to the DMV electronically, and the court retrieves it from there. With the completion and full payment in hand, the court tells the DMV to mask the conviction, which keeps the point off your driving record. Before your due date, check the case with the court and confirm your name, license number and court code 48430, so you still have time to fix any error.