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Road safety, driving rules and penalties
Road safety law and advice, information about driving penalties and paying fines.
Services
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Speeding penalties
You could get a fine and penalty points if you're caught speeding, or could even lose your licence
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Child car seats: the law
The rules for child car seats and booster seats - height, weight, age, type of vehicle, car, minibus, licensed taxi
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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
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Medical conditions, disabilities and driving
When to tell DVLA about a medical condition or disability - what will happen to your licence, renewing or reapplying for your licence.
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Driving eyesight rules
The eyesight rules to pass your driving test and for whenever you're driving
Guidance and regulation
- Can I drive while my application is with DVLA? (INF188/6)
- Assessing fitness to drive: a guide for medical professionals
News and communications
- ‘Don’t be a Space Invader’ – stay safe, stay back says Highways England
- Traffic officers go back to school for road safety education
- New plans to update road safety laws to protect cyclists and pedestrians
- Consultation on revised guidance for goods and passenger transport industries
Research and statistics
- Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency – Research at DVLA
- Road accidents and safety: tables index
- Speeding offences and reported accidents involving speeding (SPE02)
- Casualties involved in reported road accidents (RAS30)
- Former strategic framework for road safety outcome indicators (RAS41)
Policy papers and consultations
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- DVSA strategy: annual progress report, 2017 to 2018
- Highways England: reported road casualties on the strategic road network (SRN)
- A27 accident data
- M3 junctions 9 to 13 accident figures
- M20/M2 number of accidents FOI