It’s about time we named and shamed the motoring offenders the DVLA is failing to keep on top of. We’d be happy to ‘out’ them at our website, for example, because otherwise there seems no incentive for regular offenders to stop driving when they’re banned (or uninsured…).
In this instance I’m talking about the points that licence holders are accumulating and the fact that a woman from Isleworth in West London was able to continue driving with a total of 42 penalty points last year, according to the latest figures from the DVLA.
Granted these were all for failing to disclose the identity of the driver (between 26 May and 21 December 2012) one wonders how the police let her go without knowing who she was or where she lived…
The second-highest points total, 36, went to a man from Warrington, Cheshire, who was caught driving without insurance six times in less than two weeks, between 20 February and 2 March 2012.
Other notable offenders include:
+ A man from Southend-on-Sea with 30 points, who was caught speeding ten times between 14 March 2011 and 3 August 2012.
+ A man from Blackburn with 29 points, who was caught speeding eight times in two months, between 29 September 2011 and 29 November 2011.
+ A man from Pevensey, East Sussex, with 24 points who was caught speeding six times in just two weeks, between 30 September and 13 October 2012.
Failing to give the identity of the owner, speeding, and driving uninsured are the most common reasons for points.
To be fair on our gender, of the top twenty licence-points holders, 90% are men.
IAM chief executive Simon Best said: “It’s really disappointing to see that this issue has not yet been resolved. DVLA and the Courts Service are upgrading their computer systems to ensure that offence information is shared more efficiently, but this is not due to be in place until October. When drivers with ten speeding offences are getting away with holding a licence, these improvements cannot come quickly enough. The IAM has no sympathy for owners who refuse to reveal the identity of the driver, and we would welcome an urgent consultation on new ways to deal with this problem. Drivers must expect that 12 points means a ban or the whole system falls into disrepute.”
FOXY has no sympathy for women who let the rest of their gender down in this way. We get enough criticism as it is. The law should be the law in that 12 points means a driving ban.
FOXY
