Speeding fine as a tourist. How much?

[Sgtmajormummy]

Hello, I’m posting as I can’t find any clear answers on Google.

Last April I came to the UK for a holiday using a hire car. I was the named driver and DH the second. However DH did all the driving.
I’ve now received a speeding fine for doing 42 in a 30 zone (fair enough, no contestation) and a page to fill in if I was not the driver at the time.
A quick Google tells me that UK citizens would receive 4-6 points and a fine of 100% of their declared weekly income but NO information about tourists.
As we are resident abroad, both have non-UK licences and DH is by far the higher earner I’ve decided to take the bullet for him. On my previously unsullied licence of 25 years!!

Can anyone tell me what I can expect in the way of fines? Are they likely to just forget about it as too much paperwork or go as far as checking my foreign income tax declarations??
I’d even consider a driver’s safety course- any excuse for a mini-break back in the UK!
Thanks in advance.

Anyway I’ve sent off the declaration form with DH’s details in case you’re wondering* and we’ll see what happens.

It's not a nanny state to ban people from driving at 42mph in a 30. It's 30 for a reason.

It's 30mph because a person is more likely to SURVIVE being hit at 30 than at any speed above that. I'm sorry that you think that makes the UK 'a nanny state'. Let's hope neither you nor your DH get hit by a car doing over 30 in the utopia you apparently live in now.

Congratulations, you get my first ever

It’s a Nanny State to look into people’s income and decide how much they should or should not be made to pay for a blanket ban.
As I said before I have no complaint about the speeding ticket, just the way the fine is allocated. Read the Full Thread, people.

right back atcha, Juno.

It’s a Nanny State to look into people’s income and decide how much they should or should not be made to pay for a blanket ban.

No it's a fairer way to fine someone

Fining Dr Highly Paid £50 wont hit them as hard as it would hit someone on Universal Credit?

He might still get a fixed penalty notice (£100 fine and 3 points, although I don't know how that works with foreign licence owners -- it shouldn't be difficult for the DVLA to instruct it's equivalent in your country of residence to apply an equivalent penalty to his licence).

www.gov.uk/speeding-penalties

This is an article from my local newspaper regarding a driving offence by a tourist. Don't know if it'll help but certainly looks like a fine and points/ban cd be in order.

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/traffic-and-travel/uruguayan-tourist-brings-chaos-to-roads-of-edinburgh-city-centre-1-4944582/amp

Thanks for that Jaggynettle
I don’t think we’ll be joining the ranks of Jag-driving Uruguayans doing 70mph the wrong way up Princes Street any day soon!

I promised an update. This might be of some help to anyone in a similar situation.

The steps have been:
I returned the form stating that DH was the driver (there was no way of indicating our relationship or the fact that we live in the same house), enclosing photocopy of his driving licence.

DH got a letter asking him to declare he was the driver. This he duly did and we enclosed a photocopy of his driving licence.

DH got another letter offering a £100 fixed penalty and ASKING FOR A PHOTOCOPY of his licence.
UK licence holders would have had to send the original. We presume it is to create a “ghost” licence to amend with the 6 penalty points a UK driver would have received. Our country is not connected to the DVLA.

We have duly paid the fine online and are now sending back receipt of payment and another photocopy of DH’s licence.

I know the employees in an office like that are not your usual policeman but badly-paid button pushers who have to cover all eventualities. It’s been a badly informed, long drawn out waste of time and resources, seemingly engineered to baffle and intimidate the citizen.

It’s given me a taste of the 1984-esque conditions the UK is heading towards.
Happy Brexit, everybody!