New speeding fines announced

[StangGT]

My understanding is that even the lowest fine is now 50% of weekly income. If thats right, then this is a massive story for us petrolheads.

Seriously, what is the point of performance cars in Britain now?

[SS2.]

StangGT said:

My understanding is that even the lowest fine is now 50% of weekly income. If thats right, then this is a massive story for us petrolheads.

The new guidelines which took effect from 24 April 2017 amended the guideline penalty (at court) for the highest category of speeding offence ie >100mph in a 70mph limit.

Fixed penalties remain unaffected - still £100 and 3 points and still an option for <50mph in a 30mph limit (by way of example).

Speed Awareness Courses and their invitation criteria remain unaffected.

Guideline excess speed thresholds for FPN, SAC and summons / SJPN remain unaffected.

The maximum fines for speeding remain the same - £2,500 for motorways, £1,000 all other roads.

Court ordered fines have been income related for ages.

Edited by SS2. on Wednesday 26th April 08:19

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Welshbeef said:

On R4 Today this morning.

If doing 51mph in a 30mph the fine will now be 1.5x gross weekly salary
If doing 101mph in a 70mph the fine will be 2.5x gross weekly salary.

All part of speed matters campaign.


In addition to points and ban of course.

Thank god I'm unemployed right now.

[SS2.]

Welshbeef said:

On R4 Today this morning.

If doing 51mph in a 30mph the fine will now be 1.5x gross weekly salary
If doing 101mph in a 70mph the fine will be 2.5x gross weekly salary.

All part of speed matters campaign.

In addition to points and ban of course.

Add R4 to the list of people who seem to have got this wrong.

[Digga]

fblm said:

Excellent. What is the maximum fine for someone with zero income?

Dunno, but we now know the best time to attempt V-Max in your supercar has got to be right before you go off to winter int he Caribbean so your ban will have lifted by the time you return.

[dcb]

Moonhawk said:

Road safety should start to focus on trying to prevent the collisions happening in the first place - rather than largely ignoring that aspect and simply looking to reduce the severity through reducing speed. I think most of the gains that may have been possible through reducing and enforcing limits have already been realised and we are well into the realms of 'diminishing returns' from that particular aspect.

By far the largest contribution to accident statistics today is poor observation.

Perhaps more effort should be focussed on educating drivers (and pedestrians) as to the importance of maintaining awareness and good observation.

+1

If 10% of the time and effort that goes into speed control went into preventing plain
bad driving, I'd be a much happier voter and tax payer.

Mind you, with one of the easiest driving tests in Europe, no refresher after ten years, no motorway
training, no skidpan training, thousands of speed cameras, a focus on speed control alone and
one of the lowest motorway speed limits in Europe (to encourage boredom), it's clear that UK Gov policy
on driving is a right mess.

Shame UK Gov haven't got the sense to cherry pick what works across Europe.

[V8LM]

SS2. said:

StangGT said:

My understanding is that even the lowest fine is now 50% of weekly income. If thats right, then this is a massive story for us petrolheads.

The new guidelines which took effect from 24 April 2017 amended the guideline penalty (at court) for the highest category of speeding offence ie >100mph in a 70mph limit.

Fixed penalties remain unaffected - still £100 and 3 points and still an option for <50mph in a 30mph limit (by way of example).

Speed Awareness Courses and their invitation criteria remain unaffected.

Guideline excess speed thresholds for FPN, SAC and summons / SJPN remain unaffected.

The maximum fines for speeding remain the same - £2,500 for motorways, £1,000 all other roads.

Court ordered fines have been income related for ages.

Edited by SS2. on Wednesday 26th April 08:19

But why let the facts get in the way of a good sensationalist story hey?

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dcb said:

Shame UK Gov haven't got the sense to cherry pick what works across Europe.

Can you imagine the wailing and media frenzy when the first fatal crash on a road with a higher limit came in? No one wants to be the minister who murdered baby x with their antisocial, global warming, boy racer higher speed limits for rich show offs law!