Due to Coronavirus lockdown measures, speed awareness courses have been suspended, raising the risk of motorists accumulating penalty points instead. Speed awareness courses have been suspended for 12 weeks as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Minor driving offences could result in stricter penalties as motorists will not have the option to choose a speed
Police are warning motorists to adhere to the rules of the road after detecting excessively high speeds and other driving offences on key routes across North Yorkshire. Officers believe that less traffic on the road is encouraging some drivers to speed and drive unsafely. Police are urging motorists not to tie up valuable police or
A motorist has been fined more than £15,000 after accumulating what is believed to be a record 150 points on his licence. Marius Balan’s BMW was caught 30 times by speed cameras on the same stretch of road over just five months. After failing to respond to police notices, he was given six penalty points
A driver has been reported for traffic offences in Bradford. The vehicle was seized under section 59 due to a previous warning. Police reported that the Vauxhall hatchback which was speeding up the motorway caught their attention. They tweeted: “But not as much as exiting quickly over the white lines and then contravening a road
A businessman repeatedly caught speeding in his Range Rover escaped a lengthy driving ban after insisting it would ruin his son’s dreams of playing Premier League football. Philip Davies, 50, had been facing a ban of at least six months after a speed camera captured him driving at 37mph and then 39mph in a 30mph
Divorces could be streamed live from the courtroom for the first time, the Ministry of Justice announced. Judges will decide which family cases should be live-streamed from the court of appeal although the couples will be able to object and potentially veto it if they do not want their case to be broadcast. While the
A driver was caught doing double the speed limit when police carried out checks in the west of Edinburgh. One driver was recorded doing 60mph on a road which has a limit of 30mph. Another motorist was reported to the procurator fiscal for letting a child sit in a passenger’s lap. Police Scotland’s roads unit urged
A woman has been jailed after she hit a 14-year-old boy with her car, causing him “catastrophic and lifelong” injuries. Megan Anderson, 25, pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily injury by dangerous driving in Glengormley in October 2017. The court heard it was estimated she was travelling at nearly twice the speed limit when she
An 11-year-old boy was found to be driving a car after being given a driving lesson by his family as they were “fed up” of him playing Grand Theft Auto video game on PlayStation. The car was pulled over by police after the child had been taken to a car park in Blackpool to
A driver has been jailed after he was found to be using the identities of two dead children to avoid speeding fines. Vehicles registered to Chinedu Ebili were caught speeding on seven occasions between January 2016 and 1 January 2018. Ebili gave details of five different individuals, including two children who had died 20 years