Speeding Penalties

[Mr Slappy]

Someone I know has just been clocked at 101mph on the motorway. What are the likely penalties? (I think it's a first offence).

[Toureman]

Quite expensive, should make you think in the future!

�150-�200 + 5 or 6 points minimum

[jb's hat]

ive always been under the impression 100+ mph = ban

[erimus1]

Actually 96.3 miles an hour is a discretional instant ban of up to a maximum of six months. If you are prosecuted as an indictable offence, then a court has the right to increase this penalty as it sees fit.

[richard1982]

depending on road condition's most likly a ban for 12month's as no regard to safety or other user's,

[Grunty]

I agree. He/she will be lucky to avoid a ban and a hefty fine. I haven't seen JudgeJ for a while, If he appears, he will probably explain the sentencing guidelines.

[JudgeJ]

The Judge has been on holiday (sans laptop, natch!), grunty !

You do not give the details, Mr Slappy, but when you say �clocked� I imagine you mean your friend was caught by the police rather than by a �safety� camera. Either way he is unlikely to be offered a fixed penalty disposal for travelling at that speed. (If he is, tell him to grab it with both hands!).

Magistrates� sentencing guidelines suggest that the bench should consider a penalty of a week�s net income and either 6 points or a disqualification of up to 56 days. The sentence they award will depend on what they hear about the circumstances of the offence and of the offender.

Just to correct a couple of points in previous answers. It is most unlikely that a ban of 12 months would be imposed as suggested by richard1982. Bear in mind that a mandatory ban of only six months is applied to drivers who accumulate 12 points, so a year�s ban for a single offence of speeding (even a serious example) would be excessive, and would probably be reduced if appealed.

I don�t know where erimus1 got his precise information, but there are no such conditions laid down in the sentencing guidelines. Also, speeding is not an "indictable" offence. Along with almost all other motoring offences it is a summary offence. It is heard on summons and is subject only to summary justice (i.e. it can only be dealt with in a magistrates� court).

Indictable offences are those which can only be heard on indictment by a judge and jury at the Crown Court. Examples of such offences are murder, manslaughter, robbery, and rape.

[spaced]

personally he should be banned. Speed limits are there for a reason. sorry.

[Mr Slappy]

Thanks for the answers. I might post the outcome if I'm allowed to, just for information. Oh, and I agree, if one doesn't speed, one doesn't get knicked for it.

[boryc]

hi,
im interested as my brother just had clocked a similar speed and was seeing what the outcome was on this issue?