Points on licence question.

[cassa333]

How come killing someone you have run over with your car gets less points on your licence than going 10 miles per hour over the limit on a clear road?

[New Judge]

Drivers who are disqualified for an offence (whether because a mandatory disqualification applies or because the judge or magistrates have imposed a discretionary disqualification) receive no penalty points. You cannot be disqualified and have points awarded for the same offence.

Causing death by dangerous driving (which I assume is what you are referring to, but without further information it is difficult to say) carries a mandatory disqualification.

[cassa333]

I got 5 points for going 10mph over the limit.

Someone I know was killed by a careless driver. The driver had only 3 point added to his licence.

[PeteHull]

Probably making an example of you.... The sure way of not having a situation like this happen in the future is to abide by the laws of the road,
It is not a right to drive a car, but a privelige we should all be thankfull for by followint the code.

pete

[paraffin]

cassa:

How can any of us give you a meaningful answer with so little detail to go on?

[cassa333]

What more detail do you want?

Someone is dead by the hands of a careless driver, found guilty, fined with three points.

10mph over the limit on a road with NO history (as far as I am aware) of any accidents (but is such a fantastic road for a speed camera) that 0000s get cought every month and you get fined and 5 points.

I am not, for the purposes of this thread, concerned with the fine/points for speeding. Rather can't understand why someone who has killed could be given such a paultry sentence.

[New Judge]

Lack of detail makes comment a bit difficult.(that's what these matters are heard in court and not dealt with automatically by way of a mechanised penalty system).

I'm only guessing, but perhaps the death was not directly attributable to the careless driving, but resulted from an accident where careles driving was involved.

A new offence of "causing death by careless driving" has recently been introduced. Prior to this, if dangerous driving could not be proved only careless driving could be charged.

Give us a few more details about the incident.

[zzxxee]

police spend far to much time chaseing speeding cars than looking for real criminals like muggers and rapists if you ask me

[New Judge]

But nobody did.

[iam.mr.leggy]

The injustice of the legal system in the uk im afraid.

[sigma]

Come of it zzxxee, by definition anyone who breaks the law is a criminal.
scenario one, I'm a mugger, I have a knife, give me your wallet
scenario two, I'm a speeding motorist, I'm doing 132 m.p.h. in fog on the A74(M) (real case)
Who's the bigger criminal, more so if as a motorist I have caused one or more deaths.

[paraffin]

Anyone able to get up to that speed on the A74 deserves a medal, not prosecution!

[Andyvon]

Muggers and rapists don't kill hundreds of people a year zzxxee - people breaking the speed limit do. Not to mention the thousands of people seriously injured and the huge cost to treat them. I hope you don't complain about your Council Tax bill.