Don't know wether you guys are aware of the new fixed penalt fines coming in ..with fixed fines going from £60 to £90 but there are also additional fines for ones that was no there before and one I agree with is the middle lane hoggers see
Dangerous Driving Offence Penalties - New Increased Fixed Penalty Fines For Drivers Making Mobile Phone Calls and Sending Text Messages And Other Offences - Drivers to Face Higher £90 Fixed Penalty Fine Plus Penalty Points:
The government has issued a warning, in a crackdown on dangerous driving, announcing that fines for a variety of motoring offences will rise by 50 per cent from £60 to £90.
The number of penalty points offenders receive on their drivers licence will remain at three, although campaigners have called for that to rise to six points.
Sending a text message or making a phone call while at the wheel will land drivers with harsher penalties. In the announcement the Transport Minister Patrick McLoughlin stressed that texting at the wheel was dangerous. The cost increase will cover fixed-penalty notices for the offence of using a handheld device while driving, and also for speeding and going through a red light.
New Three Penalty Points and £90 Fixed Penalty Fines will also be introduced for a number of careless driving offences including:-
· Cutting up other drivers
· Eating a sandwich at the wheel
· lighting a cigarette at the wheel,
· Speeding by a small margin above the posted limit
· Jumping a red light
· Needlessly hogging the middle lane on the motorway
New drug-driving laws will also be introduced, and the current drink-drive limit will not be lowered.
More than a million drivers have been convicted of using a handheld mobile phone behind the wheel since 2003, when using one other than for making an emergency call was made illegal.
The RAC stated that both texting and handheld use of mobile phones at the wheel causes more impairment than being at the drink-drive limit or under the influence of cannabis, therefore the police need to target the large number of motorists continuing to flout the law.
The number of traffic Police on patrol fell by 30 per cent in 2012 and another series of coalition government cuts, of between 12 per cent, to 23 per cent is scheduled for 2013, depending on each force's budget. That means fewer Police on the road catching the most dangerous drivers, in unroadworthy cars or vans.
Please find attached a copy of the Official Government Guidelines on Driving Offence Penalties and the Highway Code detailing how many penalty points are awarded for different motoring offences
Dangerous Driving Offence Penalties - New Increased Fixed Penalty Fines For Drivers Making Mobile Phone Calls and Sending Text Messages And Other Offences - Drivers to Face Higher £90 Fixed Penalty Fine Plus Penalty Points:
The government has issued a warning, in a crackdown on dangerous driving, announcing that fines for a variety of motoring offences will rise by 50 per cent from £60 to £90.
The number of penalty points offenders receive on their drivers licence will remain at three, although campaigners have called for that to rise to six points.
Sending a text message or making a phone call while at the wheel will land drivers with harsher penalties. In the announcement the Transport Minister Patrick McLoughlin stressed that texting at the wheel was dangerous. The cost increase will cover fixed-penalty notices for the offence of using a handheld device while driving, and also for speeding and going through a red light.
New Three Penalty Points and £90 Fixed Penalty Fines will also be introduced for a number of careless driving offences including:-
· Cutting up other drivers
· Eating a sandwich at the wheel
· lighting a cigarette at the wheel,
· Speeding by a small margin above the posted limit
· Jumping a red light
· Needlessly hogging the middle lane on the motorway
New drug-driving laws will also be introduced, and the current drink-drive limit will not be lowered.
More than a million drivers have been convicted of using a handheld mobile phone behind the wheel since 2003, when using one other than for making an emergency call was made illegal.
The RAC stated that both texting and handheld use of mobile phones at the wheel causes more impairment than being at the drink-drive limit or under the influence of cannabis, therefore the police need to target the large number of motorists continuing to flout the law.
The number of traffic Police on patrol fell by 30 per cent in 2012 and another series of coalition government cuts, of between 12 per cent, to 23 per cent is scheduled for 2013, depending on each force's budget. That means fewer Police on the road catching the most dangerous drivers, in unroadworthy cars or vans.
Please find attached a copy of the Official Government Guidelines on Driving Offence Penalties and the Highway Code detailing how many penalty points are awarded for different motoring offences
