Points on your licence

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Points on your licence

Points on licence

  • None - never had any

    Votes: 72 50.3%
  • None - all spent now

    Votes: 29 20.3%
  • 0-3

    Votes: 27 18.9%
  • 4-6

    Votes: 8 5.6%
  • 7-9

    Votes: 3 2.1%
  • 10-12

    Votes: 2 1.4%
  • 13 or more - I got leniency from the courts

    Votes: 2 1.4%

  • Total voters
    143

Garree001

Ohhh my, yes.
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After posting on another thread, I started wondering how many people have, or have had, points on their licence. I have made it an anonymous vote, so don't worry about that!
 
None in 2 and a half years, gone past a speed camera at 10mph over the limit by mistake but it was facing the other side of the road, and ran a red light but the next set were the camera ones.
 
Zero - but, only had my car since September last year lol (and had only driven Dads car a few times in the year prior to that lol).

Obviously, I'd like it to stay that way...so far, I'm doing fairly well at sticking to speed limits (some back roads in town I may travel a wee bit too fast down...and maybe nearly ploughed into a police car at 40 [she wasn't paying attention, lucky for me I was more or less in the middle of the road lol])
 
SP30 in March 08 for 36 in a 30 near work by a mobile speed trap.

The gutting thing is that I'd just driven past it the other way not 5 minutes previous and spotted they were working from a council van.....

Coming the other way I just thought it was a council van till someone jumped out and stopped me.
 
Got caught doing 110.8mph on athe new section of the A1 in my old bravo 1.8 hlx when I was 20. Had been driving 3 weeks over two years when convicted.

Got banned for two weeks and issued with an SP50 and a £210 fine - no points. I had to go to court. Would have faced anything upto a 3 month ban at the time (the going rate iirc) but a freind (who was at the time a policeman) advised me to state that I would lose my job if I lost my licence. My employer went along with this and the magistrate asked me how much annual leave I had, I had 2 weeks left...

licence clean now.
 
None in 35 years driving for work & for pleasure, including 2 or 3 quite quick motorbikes!

So far... :eek:
 
SP30 Twice for 39mph. The first was spent a long time aho and the other was 2008 i think. It was a camera that i always used to speed through at like 50+ when it faced the other way. The one time i go slower it gets me. :bang:.
 
I just noticed - I never said what I have got! 3 points - SP50 on the M4 for doing 61mph in a 70 limit. They reckoned the limit was 50 and as I don't carry a video camera in the car, I was screwed. Got them in October 2005 and the points can be removed from my licence in a few months :) Think they are technically spent though, although the insurance companies would argue differently.

It's interesting that people state they intend to keep a clean licence - I personally think that to do this, it's more of a case of luck rather than judgement. I heard that more people have points than not these days.
 
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iv had 0 and will keep it that way

Your young. You've plenty of time ;)

i have an sp30 for speeding in a 750 panda :eek:

:ROFLMAO:

What speed Dave?

3 points + £60 for using phone and another 3 + £60 for running red light with camera (not purposely!) in Brighton = 6 points, should come off around Jan 2011 though

:eek: James :eek:

Points are spent after 3 years. :)

Yeah, but can't be removed from paper counter part for another 2 years after that isn't it? I can never understand why.

And why do insurance companies seem to recognise them for upto 5 years after the offence in some cases (n)


I've an SP30 for 37 in a 30 in a 1.1 Auto Panda, down hill. Not proud of it, but TBH worse crap happens at sea. :p
 
Points for speeding and most other offences are valid for three years from date of offence. Any further offences within those three years and they count for totting up.

If you elect for trial and are found guilty, the date of conviction could be 6 months or more after the date of the offence. The points still count from date of offence.

As an example - if you have 9 points and are caught speeding again a few days within the 3 years and go to trial, you might be found guilty 3 years and 6 months after the first offence. But because totting up is calculated from the date of offence the first points are still valid, which is why they stay on your licence for an extra year.


All this started years ago when the only record of points was what was written on the licence, these days the legal record is kept at DVLA and if you "can't find" your licence the court will still have a record to work from.


Insurance contracts are civil law not criminal law so they can ask for records going back 5 years in order to make a reasoned calculation of the risk you present.
 
I just noticed - I never said what I have got! 3 points - SP50 on the M4 for doing 61mph in a 70 limit. They reckoned the limit was 50 and as I don't carry a video camera in the car, I was screwed. Got them in October 2005 and the points can be removed from my licence in a few months :) Think they are technically spent though, although the insurance companies would argue differently.

It's interesting that people state they intend to keep a clean licence - I personally think that to do this, it's more of a case of luck rather than judgement. I heard that more people have points than not these days.

It's luck AND judgement IMO Garree... I've expected tickets but they never arrived... usually from driving in areas I dont know. But we make our own luck, never exceed the limits & you wont get speeding points, but we all know thats impossible... :eek: Play the percentage game, and in most cases you'll get lucky! (y)
 
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