Fine's going up for some motoring offences

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http://uk.news.yahoo.com/texting-drivers-face-90-fine-044525107.html#AMTe3B9

Sending a text message or making a phone call while at the wheel will land drivers with harsher penalties, the transport minister warned

In a move to crack down on dangerous driving, Patrick McLoughlin indicated that fines for a variety of offences would rise by 50%, from £60 to £90.

The number of penalty points offenders receive on their licence will remain at three.

The cost increase will cover fixed penalty notices for the offence of using a hand-held device while driving, the Daily Mail said, and also for speeding and going through a red light.

A new penalty of three penalty points and a £90 fine will also be introduced for a number of careless driving offences, including cutting up other drivers, eating a sandwich or lighting a cigarette at the wheel, driving at an inappropriate speed and needlessly hogging the middle lane on a motorway.

New drug-driving laws will also be introduced, and the current drink-drive limit will not be lowered.

Mr McLoughlin, who admitted at a road safety conference in London that he had used a mobile phone to make calls while driving, but would not do so now, said: “We want to send a clear message to dangerous drivers: If you continue to show complete disregard for the safety of other road users, we will catch you - and we will punish you.”

More than a million drivers have been convicted of using a hand-held mobile phone behind the wheel since 2003, when using one other than for making an emergency call was made illegal.

Professor Stephen Glaister, director of the RAC Foundation, said: “With both texting and hand-held use of mobile phones at the wheel causing more impairment than being at the drink-drive limit or under the influence of cannabis, the police need to target the large number of motorists continuing to flout the law.”

so the fine for many motoring offence’s, many of which have been around for long enough for people to know better, are going up, will this make a difference?

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These are not “fines”
These are a form of indirect tax from a increasingly desperate “state” that knows its sinking fast under a unrepayable debt of its own making.

And before some idiot writes in about " the labour governments policy of spending…blah…blah…blah."

This country is now “borrowing” more money than it is possible for it to pay back.
And while we still “elect” useless morons of whatever political colour to “govern” us
the only way is down.

They keep telling us they are reducing the “defecit” what they dont tell you is that the"defecit" is only the interest on the money “we” owe not the actual debt which still keeps growing to the tune of billions every year.

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just another money making racket, if they really wanted to deter these offences then they should have doubled the penalty points,

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For texting and using your phone it is nowhere near enough it should be at least 6 points, if your stupid enough to get caught tough.

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Well, I never text when driving, and only use the firms handsfree when they phone me …

however, I am prone to eating the odd sandwich when driving . . at a £90 fine I had better stop, or it could be the most expensive sarnie ever eaten :astonished:

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could be the most expensive sarnie ever eaten :astonished:

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Bking:
They keep telling us they are reducing the “defecit” what they dont tell you is that the"defecit" is only the interest on the money “we” owe not the actual debt which still keeps growing to the tune of billions every year.

The deficit is how much we keep topping up the debt we already have.

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Ban on the spot for using a phone I say. :smiley: Then the sods won’t use them

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Driving bans don’t make a blind bit of difference these days. I watched one of those motorway cop programmes the other week. They pulled a little tipper truck for driving overloaded, turned out he was banned and had been 39 times! These people take no notice of bans.

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Use the phone when driving?

£500 fine, six points and sieze the vehcile for 24 hrs.