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falkor
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by falkor » Mon Dec 08, 2014 8:48 pm
Here's everything you can get penalty points for from today
The new offences that will now draw penalty points include:
Failure by learner or novice drivers to display L plates or N plates respectively on their cars;
Drivers breaking a ban on U-turns;
Breaking rules on the use of mini roundabouts;
Offences relating to the size and weight of larger vehicles;
Going beyond no-entry to vehicles signs;
Disobeying traffic control signs;
and driving without a licence plate or with one that has been altered inaccurately.
Offences that will now face a change to the number of penalty points they now carry will include:
Driving without a test certificate;
Dangerous parking;
Failure to keep to the left-hand side of the road;
Dangerous overtaking;
Driving across the road’s middle line;
Failure to stop for a stop sign;
Failure to yield at a yield sign or yield line;
Not following traffic signs at junctions;
Driving through traffic lights;
and breaking of speed restrictions
powdermonkey
Committee Member
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Location: West Yorkshire
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by powdermonkey » Mon Dec 08, 2014 10:18 pm
Personally I'm a good boy so I wont get potted for any of those. Professionally, we can't issue endorsable tickets so I can't add them to my list.
I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.
falkor
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by falkor » Mon Dec 08, 2014 11:22 pm
couple of my favourites
• Failure by learner or novice drivers to display L plates or N plates respectively on their cars
N plates? Offence?
• Breaking rules on the use of mini roundabouts
So people driving over the middle? Penalty points??
powdermonkey
Committee Member
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Location: West Yorkshire
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by powdermonkey » Tue Dec 09, 2014 1:29 am
I might have to admit to committing the dastardly offence of driving over the middle of a mini roundabout. Some of the ones near where I live are on roads so narrow that the only way to avoid doing so would be to mount the pavement. That's in a mid sized car so as for bigger vehicles . . . .
I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.