Archive for the ‘Speeding’ Category
Speeding, is the most common motoring offence, the world over. The offence of speeding is on the rise because more amd more cars and in co-relation more and more drivers, most of them little or ill trained, come on the roads every passing year, posing a serious threat to both themselves and others.
Statistics show that a number of reasons are responsible for the rise in the offence of speeding, the most important reason, albeit, an indirect one is the erosion or disintegration and the blatant disregard of a very basic civic concept of the collective responsibility, we owe to other members of the society.
Speeding and/or reckless driving in its most minor form can lead to a simple verbal caution by the traffic police officer to the offender. But this notice is the most minor penalty an offender of speeding can receive. In the majority of cases of the commission of the speeding offence, an individual is not as lucky.as the penalties for speeding become more stringent as the degree of the speeding offence increases.
The increase in penalty imposed for speeding increses as does the degreeof the speeding offence. The penalties for speeding range from simple punishments as receiving of penalty points, normally three to six points; to the imposition of fine of two thousand five hundred pounds; and in the most severe cases of speeding the issuance of summons, followed by the initiation of Court proceedings.