There may have been circumstances that affected your ability to drive within the limit, however, such as being blinded by sunlight and unable to view your speed, or perhaps exceptional personal issues caused you to break the law.
You will need a very good excuse and you risk an even larger fine. You might think that speeding fines and safety cameras are a moral outrage and the police have better things to do than catch drivers travelling a few miles per hour over the limit.
But speed limits are there for a reason and if you were caught driving over the limit, in most cases you have to accept the punishment. In April , the sentencing structure for drivers prosecuted for speeding was changed, but the laws remained the same.
Penalties at this level are often issued automatically, and you could be offered the opportunity to attend a speed awareness course.
The cost will be similar to the fine, but you'll avoid having points added to your driving licence. Of course, magistrates courts use their judgment on any offences in-between and issue speeding fines, licence points and driving bans accordingly. If you are accepting points, you need to send off your driving licence. You should get it back within four weeks. If you are taking a speed awareness course, you must do this within four months of the offence date.
The course provider will inform the police when you have completed it, and the matter will be considered settled. For minor offences, you may be offered a speed awareness course, to escape the fine and points on your licence. But it has to be offered — you cannot request it.
Speed awareness courses are run by external providers, not by the police, so you will be expected to pay for the course. This cost varies by provider. If you were indeed speeding then you really have no defence, and the best thing to do is accept the ticket. If your car was stolen or sold, or someone else was driving at the time, you are not liable for the fine. You must respond to the NIP to tell the police this. If someone else was driving your car at the time, you must inform the police of who the driver was.
It is illegal for you to accept responsibility for another person's offence. It is also illegal to decline to provide the driver's details, whether it was you or another person. This carries a minimum sentence of six points on your licence or even a driving ban. Your fine will be calculated based on your weekly earnings. The following table will help you work out how much this could be - and how many penalty points you could receive. Pensioners, the rich and non-working partners of the wealthy won't get away with paying more either.
Take a look at the guidelines from the Sentencing Council for more details of how much you could be fined.
There is no database is available to check if you've been caught speeding in the UK. Instead, you will have to wait to see if a penalty notice is issued to your vehicle's registered address within a day period. Speeding tickets and court cases will not be dropped due to the hold-ups caused by the Covid pandemic. The answer is yes and no, here. If you are a key worker and need your car to reach your workplace, or help friends who are self-isolating, the magistrate may be less inclined to ban you.
However, if you were caught speeding during lockdown on a non-essential journey, then expect the magistrate to look far less kindly on your case - making a ban more likely. The Sentencing Council has created a speeding fine calculator to help you find out how much you are likely to be fined if you're issued with a speeding ticket.
Check out your speeding fine here. Speed camera penalty points are valid on your licence for three years from the date of the offence, or from the date of conviction if given in court. This is the camera taking two photos of you. Not every speed camera gives an obviously noticeable flash. Some speed cameras use infrared lights to get around the need for a bright flash — although you can often still see a mild flash. Typically, though, average speed cameras use more advanced infrared cameras, so they can work day or night, rain or shine or snow… and there won't be a flash in sight at all.
You should receive your Notice of Intended Prosecution NIP and a Section notice inside of 14 days of your car being caught speeding. Exactly how long it takes for a speeding fine to come through depends on what system caught you, which police force is handling the notice, and the time of year.
Our How to have a conversation about money article might help. You may have heard that if you get a speeding ticket through the post more than 14 days after the vehicle you own was photographed speeding, the ticket can be cancelled. There is some truth to this, but the rules are more complicated than that.
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