Hertfordshire Council must refund £1.3m in bus lane fines after illegally placed restrictions. The Traffic Penalty Tribunal has stated that the bus lane enforcement sign on Moor End Road in Hemel Hempstead was unclear and illegally placed. More than 35, 000 drivers have been issued with a penalty notice and all that have paid are […]

A 23 year old male was arrested for drink-driving when police stopped him on his electric bike. Motorised bicycles do not need a licence, tax or insurance and therefore are not covered under the drink-drive laws. Mr Dancer was first pulled over in February this year when he was found pushing his bicycle and again […]

A busy stretch of the M6 motorway limited to 50mph for 2 years due to roadworks has amazingly attracted only 56 speeding tickets in that time. A report by local newspaper the Express & Star reveals that the Police forces in the West Midlands, Staffordshire and West Mercia divisions covering the lengthy stretch issued just […]

Local authorities outside London want the right to increase their car parking fines from £70 to £120, to match those issued in the capital, the Telegraph has reported. The British Parking Association (BPA) is backing a campaign led by local authorities, proposing that current fines are not enough of a deterrent to motorists committing parking […]

A special officer from Suffolk attended court for the charge of dangerous driving. The officer had been perusing a drunk driver when he used his patrol vehicle to block the road causing an accident. The jury have found him not guilty of dangerous driving but he has been fined £1000 and given a six month […]

LONDON — Foreign diplomats in Britain have been accused of human trafficking, domestic violence, drink driving and threats to kill — and owe more than 36 million pounds in traffic fines, new figures reveal. Foreign Office figures show diplomatic missions owe 36,057,690 pounds for not paying London’s congestion charge since 2003 — and half a […]

A porsche driver has been fined after he was caught with four dining chairs balanced on the passenger seat of his open-topped car. Daniel Hill was stopped by officers who saw the stack of unsecured chairs towering over him. Hill, 26, of Exeter, denied driving without full vision of the road but was fined £60 […]

A police officer was jailed yesterday for faking papers to dodge a motoring fine. PC Dean Hardy, 35, feared becoming a laughing stock after being pulled over while driving without an MOT. He later filled in a form to make it appear the MOT was valid and had it signed at Deeside station, Clwyd. Jailing […]

With a busy road packed with commuter traffic and a pedestrian crossing just yards away, simply driving to and from his house can be a major headache for Maxwell Cannon. Whether he goes in forwards or backwards, a breach of the Highway Code is almost inevitable – and so yesterday the chemistry student achieved the […]

Transport ministers are expected to press ahead with plans to allow the police to issue fixed penalty fines for careless driving offences, despite objections from magistrates today about the rise of “out of court justice”. The proposal would mean motorists guilty of minor careless driving offences being issued with a £60 fine and three penalty […]