Road Traffic Law
The rules of the road
Road traffic law affects anyone who drives a car, whether for business, leisure or both. Road traffic offences can have a huge effect on your everyday life, so it’s important to keep informed lest you fall foul of the law.
Road traffic offences
There are a wide variety of road traffic offences, reflecting behaviours seen – fairly or not - as causing disruption or danger to yourself and others. These include incidents of careless or dangerous driving, drink driving and speeding.
It’s important to know the potential penalties for motoring offences, as well as the best way to defend yourself in court. Getting the right solicitor for your case can be vital, and our Find a Solicitor service can match you with the right one.
Points on your license and convictions
If you have committed a road traffic offence, you may have received an “endorsement”, along with penalty points, on your license. Too many of these can result in the revocation of your driving license. It’s also important to note the relevant of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act as it relates to road traffic offences.
Points on your license can also affect the cost of your motor insurance. We’ve conducted a study into the effects, and the best way to get motor insurance with points applied to your driving license.
Road traffic accidents
If you’ve been in a road traffic accident, and suffered injury as a result, you may be able to make a personal injury claim. Even if you did not suffer injury, you’ll probably want to make an insurance claim if your car was damaged. We’ve compiled a checklist of the best way to ensure that your claim – whether insurance or personal injury – is successful, through verifying that you have enough evidence to prove that the accident happened the way you claim it did.
Top motoring law matters
Drink driving
Perhaps the most serious of all driving offences — get the lowdown on drink driving laws here and find out what you might face if caught.
Driving Offences
There exists a wide range of motoring offences of varying severity which carry different penalties for the perpetrator. Click here for detailed information.
Endorsements, Disqualification and Revocation
The consequences of misbehaving on the road can be penalty points on your licence, disqualification from driving or the confiscation of your license altogether.
Rehabilitation of Offenders Act
Driving offences are not an indelible stain upon your character. Find out how those who err on the roads are given a second chance.
Seat belts & more
Make sure you don't fall foul of any of the many miscellaneous laws and rules which pertain to driving a motor vehicle.