It is known that if a rational curve () of degree fails to be -regular then admits a unique -secant line and the arithmetic genus of is at most . In this paper, we study the effect of such a secant line on algebraic and geometric properties of the curve . We show that if the singular locus of does not lie on then is obtained by a simple linear projection of a curve of maximal regularity. Also we show that if then is -regular which enables us to estimate the Hartshorne-Rao module and the graded Betti numbers of .