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Road safety, driving rules and penalties

Road safety law and advice, information about driving penalties and paying fines.

Services

  1. Speeding penalties

    You could get a fine and penalty points if you're caught speeding, or could even lose your licence

  2. Child car seats: the law

    The rules for child car seats and booster seats - height, weight, age, type of vehicle, car, minibus, licensed taxi

  3. The drink drive limit

    The legal alcohol limits for drivers in the UK - microgrammes, milligrammes

  4. Check if a health condition affects your driving

    Check if you need to tell DVLA about a health or medical condition if you have a driving licence - you'll have to fill in medical questionnaire if you do

  5. Pay a DVLA fine

    Use this service to pay any money you owe DVLA for not taxing your vehicle or declaring a Statutory Off Road Notification (SORN)

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Guidance and regulation

  1. The Highway Code
    • Manual
    • Department for Transport
  2. Assessing fitness to drive: a guide for medical professionals
    • Guidance
    • Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
  3. Assessing fitness to drive: a guide for medical professionals
    • Detailed guide
    • Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
  4. Can I drive while my application is with DVLA? (INF188/6)
    • Promotional
    • Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
  5. Know your traffic signs
    • Guidance
    • Department for Transport
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News and communications

Press release

Boost for drivers as government backs single appeals service

Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

  1. Commercial vehicle operators using old tyres to face investigations
    • Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
    • News story
  2. Roads update: 23 November 2018
    • Department for Transport, Traffic Commissioners for Great Britain, and Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
    • Written statement
  3. Bold new measures to keep people safe on the roads
    • Department for Transport
    • News story
  4. Safety warning following seven gritter crashes in North West
    • Highways England
    • Press release
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Research and statistics

  1. Walking and cycling (TSGB11)
    • Department for Transport
    • Statistical data set
  2. Transport accidents and casualties (TSGB08)
    • Department for Transport
    • Statistical data set
  3. Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency – Research at DVLA
    • Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency
    • Research
  4. Police recorded injury road traffic collisions and casualties Northern Ireland monthly report to 30 September 2018
    • Police Service of Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
    • National statistics
  5. Motoring offences statistics in Northern Ireland to 30 September 2018
    • Police Service of Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
    • Official statistics
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Policy papers and consultations

  1. New cycling offences: causing death or serious injury when cycling
    • Department for Transport
    • Closed consultation
    • Date closed 05 November 2018
  2. New ways to report road accidents to the police
    • Department for Transport
    • Closed consultation
    • Date closed 24 April 2018
  3. Roadworthiness testing for vehicles of historical interest
    • Department for Transport
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 02 November 2016
  4. Testing if vehicles are roadworthy
    • Department for Transport
    • Consultation outcome
    • Date closed 02 November 2016
  5. DVSA strategy, 2017 to 2022
    • Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
    • Policy paper
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Transparency and freedom of information releases

  1. A14 Orwell Bridge closures
    • Highways England
    • Foi release
  2. DVSA strategy: annual progress report, 2017 to 2018
    • Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency
    • Corporate report
  3. Highways England: reported road casualties on the strategic road network (SRN)
    • Highways England
    • Corporate report
  4. A27 accident data
    • Highways England
    • Foi release
  5. M3 junctions 9 to 13 accident figures
    • Highways England
    • Foi release
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