everything you can get penalty points from today

[falkor]

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]

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.

[falkor]

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??

[Bert Moffat]

Isn't that in Eire, not the UK?

[powdermonkey]

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 . . . .