New Penalties for Drivers, including on-the-spot fines for tailgating and lane-hogging, take effect from tomorrow. Also from tomorrow, various fines, for which drivers do not have their licence endorsed, rise from £30 to £50. These include such offences as not having an easily-seen car tax disc and failing to give way at a junction.
The fine for not wearing a seatbelt goes up from £60 to £100, while the driving-without-insurance fine rises from £200 to £300.
For me, anyone not having insurance should be fined at least 3 times what their premium would be.
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I reckon it's only a matter of time before the Highways Agency are empowered to hand out fines...
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Impossible to Police, that should be obvious to anyone with an ounce of sense. As usual it will just be a load of opportunistic "nicks" in the hope that the poor sod wont go to court to contest it.
Revenue collection racket!
If I ever have 5 hours spare I'll argue the toss with anyone about it.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
I predict outrage from people who aren't fit to be on the roads.
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
Pushing into an orderly traffic queue - Does that include motorcycles filtering to the front at the lights, or lane-splitting on a stationary motorway?
Being in the wrong lane at a roundabout - Well, I use a map book, not a SatNav. Sometimes the lane markings aren't clear, until you get on top of them (eg A3/M25 roundabout). So rather than switch lanes, will I have to do a complete loop of the roundabout to get to my exit?
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
I'm still stupid, but no longer stupid enough to get caught speeding. Though I did get pulled over a few months back for doing 60 in a 60 zone.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.