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To ask if you have had 12 points on your license and if so what happened?

173 replies

daysayso · 22/08/2022 11:35

I have 9 points currently, I have had a letter to say I was speeding 53 mph on a 40mph motorway temporary speed limit

Once I reach 12 points I've read it's an auto ban - unless you can prove hardship.

Has anyone got to 12 points and either successfully appealed it or got away with it and if so how?

No smart comments please these is really stressing me out

Thanks in advance

OP posts:
DixonD · 22/08/2022 22:12

daysayso · 22/08/2022 19:31

I'm basically fucked

And rightly so. I don’t want to drive with my precious daughter in my car with people like you on the road.

Sugarplumfairy65 · 22/08/2022 22:13

daysayso · 22/08/2022 19:31

I'm basically fucked

Its what you deserve. At least one of your family members wasn't killed by a speeding driver.

Musti · 22/08/2022 22:18

I don’t understand how you aren’t careful once you have 9 points.

I had a black box fitted a few years ago and I always drove under the limit because I was hyper vigilant. I’m a bit more lax now I don’t have it, but if I had any points I’d be super careful!

Marvellousmadness · 22/08/2022 22:22

This is why you are supposed to learn from your mistakes, not repeat them...

LoveMeForARaisin · 22/08/2022 22:45

I was pulled over by the police 5 years ago and warned to watch my speed (37 in a 30, to be honest I genuinely thought it was a 40 but obviously that’s not an excuse).

i think I may just be a big chicken shit, but it shook me so much I haven’t sped since.

how are some of you doing this over and over? How do you have the balls?

sorry but if you’ve been effectively warned three times there shouldn’t be an exemption. Take responsibility for your actions.

LoveMeForARaisin · 22/08/2022 22:46

FinallyHere · 22/08/2022 21:00

Do check the status of your licence. As PP has pointed out, points do eventually expire.

https://www.gov.uk/penalty-points-endorsements/how-to-check-your-endorsement-details

DH represented himself, on exceptional hardship due to limited mobility caused by surgery / radiotherapy for a rare kind of cancer.

He is a blue badge holder.

His licence is endorsed with a note that he has been granted this leniency and cannot expect to get off again if he ever reaches 12 points again.

I received confirmation that a fixed penalty would not be offered because the three point penalty would take me to the twelve point totting up automatic ban and that my case had been sent to the magistrates court.

The court was so overloaded, they were prioritising cases of DV and children. They never got round to prosecuting me. Seven years later, the records of my points had all run out and I knew I was safe.

I've been pretty careful ever since. Use cruise control to avoid speeding all the time.

p.s. I did initially contact specialist legal advice. They told me to come back to them when I had a court date. Turned out I never got that court date.

Did you take points for him or something? Or are you both just terrible drivers??

LaQuern · 23/08/2022 06:02

@Agrudge as I said, it's a speed limit. Not a target.

That's what all the 'holier than thou, never let my Toyota Yaris go half a mile an hour over the speed limit' so piously say..

It's my right to drive 10 mph below the speed limit?

Endlesslypatient82 · 23/08/2022 06:29

LaQuern · 23/08/2022 06:02

@Agrudge as I said, it's a speed limit. Not a target.

That's what all the 'holier than thou, never let my Toyota Yaris go half a mile an hour over the speed limit' so piously say..

It's my right to drive 10 mph below the speed limit?

So you do that for every limit? 20 you got 10? 30 you go 20? Etc

Endlesslypatient82 · 23/08/2022 06:30

When I was learning to drive- if I was going 20 in 30 or 30 in a 40 or 40 in a 50…. My instructor would tell me to increase my speed!

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL · 23/08/2022 06:36

LaQuern · 23/08/2022 06:02

@Agrudge as I said, it's a speed limit. Not a target.

That's what all the 'holier than thou, never let my Toyota Yaris go half a mile an hour over the speed limit' so piously say..

It's my right to drive 10 mph below the speed limit?

That does not make you a good or careful driver!

Endlesslypatient82 · 23/08/2022 06:40

You should always keep your speed below the maximum speed limit for the road you are driving on. Although you are not legally obliged to drive at the maximum speed limit, if it is safe to do, you should try and drive at a speed that at least approaches it. For instance, in a 40mph zone, your speed should be between 35 and 40mph.
Driving too slowly can be as dangerous as driving too fast. The driver who toddles along a 60mph road at 40mph causes tailbacks and frustration. This can lead to dangerous overtaking manoeuvres and other road safety issues.

Driving test centre guidance

Nobetterthansheoughttobe · 23/08/2022 06:55

What a fuckingvappalling thread.
OP wants people to go easy on her despite breaking motoring laws that have caused her to accumulate more points than soft mick, subsequent posters outlining how they/others have managed to avoid losing their licence despite breaking the law and enda gering others
OP, and everyone else thinking motoring offences are not really breaking the law, I could guarentee that if someone was speeding outside your door, or outside you DCs school you would be wetting yourselves with self-righteousness and ranting about how these dangerous drivers need locking up
Rules for you, rules for others

LaQuern · 23/08/2022 07:55

@Endlesslypatient82 yes

LaQuern · 23/08/2022 07:56

@LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Neither does going a few miles over the speed limit!

Endlesslypatient82 · 23/08/2022 08:01

LaQuern · 23/08/2022 07:55

@Endlesslypatient82 yes

Then you’re actually going against guidelines.

Spend 5mins researching

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL · 23/08/2022 08:18

LaQuern · 23/08/2022 07:56

@LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Neither does going a few miles over the speed limit!

Which I don't! But I can't abide bad drivers, wether they go to fast or to slow!

It's your right to hold up a whole road of traffic? So ducking entitled abs the label it as "I'm careful", no you're a bad driver. No better than someone speeding and causing accidents just the same. Get a copy of the Highway Code and read it.

Agrudge · 23/08/2022 08:28

Going a few mph over the limit is hardly the crime of the century. And not dangerous

LuckySnips · 23/08/2022 08:41

"A few mph over" wouldn't get you any points, though, so that's not what anyone in this thread is talking about.

Agrudge · 23/08/2022 08:48

LuckySnips · 23/08/2022 08:41

"A few mph over" wouldn't get you any points, though, so that's not what anyone in this thread is talking about.

I meant to qoute:

Laquern

Neither does going a few miles over the speed limit!

Agrudge · 23/08/2022 08:51

I'm a firm advocate of "you should drive to the conditions of the road"

Whether its 15mph below the limit or 15mph above the limit

Endlesslypatient82 · 23/08/2022 08:51

Agrudge · 23/08/2022 08:51

I'm a firm advocate of "you should drive to the conditions of the road"

Whether its 15mph below the limit or 15mph above the limit

Well that’s daft

Agrudge · 23/08/2022 08:58

Endlesslypatient82 · 23/08/2022 08:51

Well that’s daft

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Is it really though?

Mousemat25 · 23/08/2022 09:03

I really hope OP gets a ban. Drivers that accumulate so many points while being too thick / arrogant to realise they are crap drivers need to get off the road.

Endlesslypatient82 · 23/08/2022 09:04

Endlesslypatient82 · 23/08/2022 08:51

Well that’s daft

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Well yes.

because you’ll be getting points left right and centre if you are happy to go 15mph if the road conditions are in your opinion fine for it

Flopisfatteningbingforchristmas · 23/08/2022 09:07

daysayso · 22/08/2022 19:31

I'm basically fucked

It could be worse. You could be facing charges of death my dangerous driving.