The most common instance where Notice is served is an NIP for speeding. There is an NIP time limit that applies of 14 days from the offence. However, how this is calculated will depend on how the notice is given. Don't wait until it's too late. Call Motor Defence Solicitors now, on 0800 2800 912, for a fixed fee consultation with a specialist solicitor.
A summons, for offences such as speeding, careless driving, drink driving etc...is issued in the Magistrates' Court, although the case may then be transferred to the Crown Court.
Your driving fell below that expected of a competent driver or driving a vehicle on a road or in any public place dangerously or in a dangerous condition
Being in charge of a vehicle when unfit due to drink or drugs
Where an individual deliberately withholds or provides misleading information
Systems used in the UK are generally type approved and require regular calibration. You are likely to come across the following types: Cameras, Laser, Radar, Stopwatch, Video. Some of the more common devices used include the Gatso, LTI2020, Vascar, Truevelo. For more detailed information on the individual devices, please click here
You are in an ever shrinking group of drivers. Keep the first penalty points off your driving licence
If you got your full driving licence less than 2 years ago you are on the verge of revocation and re-test. Insurance premiums start to rise.
One more slip and your driving licence is gone. You could face a 6 month driving disqualification
You are looking at a 6 month driving ban unless you come up with a convincing argument at Court.
The Police can stop you by the road if they suspect an offence has occured. You will usually be given a Fixed Penalty Notice (NIP), HORT1 Producer or depending on the offence, be arrested and taken to a Police Station. Typical offences within this scenario include:
Insurance companies, affected by an increase in claims, have increased insurance premiums for those with points
The average premium has increased by about £180 from last year to £1000. Some companies won’t increase a premium if there is one indiscretion on the licence, but drivers that have multiple convictions will see a rise. The insurers are increasing the cost to fill the hole in profits by the increase in claims during the recession.
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In the majority of cases so called ’speeders’ are guilty of nothing more or less than exceeding a purely arbitrarily set speed limit. The majority of the limits bear no relationship to any risk or danger. I fail to see how any ‘conviction’ for speeding, on its own, can justify an increase in insurance premium. Many years ago, when I first started to ride bikes, there was no national limit. We bought our bikes, we modified them and tuned them and three figure speeds were common, I was once waved past by a police driver who, himself, was already travelling at 100mph. Then the law changed and the 70mph limit appeared applicable even on motorways which had been designed for sustained 120mph cruising. Overnight speeds of well into three figures, which the day before were normal, frequently achieved and LEGAL suddenly became ‘reckless’, ‘dangerous’ ’suicidal’ etc. No one will ever convince me that the introduction of the current artificially low, arbitrarily decided NSL is anything other than just another devious way of raising money for an overstretched government.
Ken.