12 points - ban?

[the bean]

Has anyone escaped without a ban for totting up 12 points in 3 years. If so at what cost, and what mitigating circumstances were used?

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The Bean

[R_U_LOCAL]

the bean said:

Has anyone escaped without a ban for totting up 12 points in 3 years. If so at what cost, and what mitigating circumstances were used?

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The Bean

I knew of a disabled bloke a few years ago who was driving around with 21 points on his licence. He successfully claimed that a disqualification would leave him housebound and would create excessive hardship for him.

The Magistrates wouldn't have it when he reached 24 points though, and he got a ban.

[Hooli]

used to know a mate who claimed to be on 19points. 3 for speeding & the rest for no insurance. story went he always said i need my licence to work to pay the fine & so on.

wouldnt swear its true though.

[Mattt]

Amazing they let him get off with 15 points Reg! (That is if they were a series of 3 pointers)

[Scraggles]

got a m8 who is on 12 points, got a letter pleading his job would stop and how good he was, so the judge passed it, only to lose his job a few months later when the company lost their contract

[R_U_LOCAL]

Mattt said:

Amazing they let him get off with 15 points Reg! (That is if they were a series of 3 pointers)

Magistrates can make some funny decisions sometimes. This bloke was quite severely disabled, and had to be wheeled into and out of court, which was a big sympathy card when he claimed a disqualification would cause him hardship.

Out in the real world, however, by all accounts, the bloke drove like a bloody lunatic.

[Mattt]

R_U_LOCAL said:

Magistrates can make some funny decisions sometimes.

Just sometimes?

[mark69sheer]

R_U_LOCAL said:

Mattt said:

Amazing they let him get off with 15 points Reg! (That is if they were a series of 3 pointers)

Magistrates can make some funny decisions sometimes. This bloke was quite severely disabled, and had to be wheeled into and out of court, which was a big sympathy card when he claimed a disqualification would cause him hardship.

Out in the real world, however, by all accounts, the bloke drove like a bloody lunatic.

Probably only sense of freedom he had , was that lunatic as in dangerous or just speeding ?

We had a disabled guy used to race at our track in an adapted kart with hand controls. He was very good virtually the same pace as me.
He used to joke if he crashed and broke his legs he wouldn't feel it anyway.

[Mr Mot]

it's not really a hard and fast rule - as alot of people presume, i myself have 12 points (an unfortunate circumstance of always being on the road) as someone has said earlier, i just took a letter along to court with me from my employer and pleaded extreme hardship.

[Hooli]

Mattt said:

R_U_LOCAL said:

Magistrates can make some funny decisions sometimes.

Just sometimes?

yeah rest of the time they arent in court!

[the bean]

What fine did you get mr mot

[kali]

When I got up to 14 points I got a £200 pound fine and no ban. It depends on your attitude in court I think, along with how well you argue your case. In my case I could be bothered to attend court even though this involved a flight to Newcastle and an over night stay in a hotel. Also I think that I was the only person in the court building apart from court employees that was't wearing a tracksuit!!!!!!!!!!

Kali

Ps. This was in 2002 and I now have a clean licence so I may have learnt to be more careful.

[Mr Mot]

the bean said:

What fine did you get mr mot

just costs plus, the usual £60 and £15 for some kind of program/scheme (i forget what it was)

[jfr]

kali said:

When I got up to 14 points I got a £200 pound fine and no ban. It depends on your attitude in court I think, along with how well you argue your case. In my case I could be bothered to attend court even though this involved a flight to Newcastle and an over night stay in a hotel. Also I think that I was the only person in the court building apart from court employees that was't wearing a tracksuit!!!!!!!!!!

Kali

Ps. This was in 2002 and I now have a clean licence so I may have learnt to be more careful.

with some magistrates it wont matter what you look like or how polite you are,they are going to be anal.

How anal will depend on the sort of night they've had the previous night or whether or not they had a good weekend.