Azhria Lilu
Captain
Lots of new penalties are being brought into effect today for drivers in the UK.
We have:-
Lane hogging and tailgating fines of £100 and 3 points on your licence, with more serious instances going to court.
Various fines, for which drivers do not have their licence endorsed, rise from £30 to £50. These include such offences as not having an easily-seen car tax disc and failing to give way at a junction.
Using a mobile phone at the wheel, and some speeding offences, rise from £60 to £100. These offences lead to an endorsement on the licence.
Failure to wear a seatbelt also goes up from £60 to £100.
Driving-without-insurance fine rises from £200 to £300
The police will also be able to offer educational training as an alternative to endorsement. Drivers will still be able to appeal against any decision in court.
Apparently these changes will give the police greater flexibility in dealing with less serious careless driving offences, freeing them from resource-intensive court processes.
Road Safety Minister Stephen Hammond said: "Careless driving puts innocent people's lives at risk. That is why we have made it easier for the police to tackle problem drivers by allowing them to immediately issue a fixed-penalty notice for low-level offending rather than taking these offenders to court.
"We have also increased penalties for a range of driving offences to a level which reflects their seriousness and which will ensure that they are consistent with other similar penalty offences."
Do you think these changes will make any difference at all to careless driving? I find it unlikely, to be honest. If people drove like this prior to these changes (when they could still get fined), I don't think changing the fines will stop them doing it now.
#dangerousdriving #fines
We have:-
Lane hogging and tailgating fines of £100 and 3 points on your licence, with more serious instances going to court.
Various fines, for which drivers do not have their licence endorsed, rise from £30 to £50. These include such offences as not having an easily-seen car tax disc and failing to give way at a junction.
Using a mobile phone at the wheel, and some speeding offences, rise from £60 to £100. These offences lead to an endorsement on the licence.
Failure to wear a seatbelt also goes up from £60 to £100.
Driving-without-insurance fine rises from £200 to £300
The police will also be able to offer educational training as an alternative to endorsement. Drivers will still be able to appeal against any decision in court.
Apparently these changes will give the police greater flexibility in dealing with less serious careless driving offences, freeing them from resource-intensive court processes.
Road Safety Minister Stephen Hammond said: "Careless driving puts innocent people's lives at risk. That is why we have made it easier for the police to tackle problem drivers by allowing them to immediately issue a fixed-penalty notice for low-level offending rather than taking these offenders to court.
"We have also increased penalties for a range of driving offences to a level which reflects their seriousness and which will ensure that they are consistent with other similar penalty offences."
Do you think these changes will make any difference at all to careless driving? I find it unlikely, to be honest. If people drove like this prior to these changes (when they could still get fined), I don't think changing the fines will stop them doing it now.
#dangerousdriving #fines
