Road safety, driving rules and penalties
Road safety law and advice, information about driving penalties and paying fines.
Services
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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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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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Check if a health condition affects your driving
Check if you need to tell DVLA about a health or medical condition, how to report medical conditions to DVLA
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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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Parking fines and penalty charge notices
How to pay or challenge a penalty charge notice (PCN) or parking ticket - fixed penalty notice (FPN), standard or excess charge notice
Guidance and regulation
- The Highway Code
- Can I drive while my application is with DVLA? (INF188/6)
- New rules for towing a trailer with a car from 16 December 2021
- Know your traffic signs
- Requirements for towing trailers in Great Britain (INF30)
News and communications
- Significant Dishonesty
- Decision for M&M Waste Ltd (OD2005676)
- [UNDER APPEAL STAY REFUSED] Decision for Walsall Builders and Timber Merchants
- Decision for CRIS & ALEX LTD and STEFAN OVIDIU CERNEAN – FORMER TRANSPORT MANAGER
- Decision for Nirwan Lld and Transport Manager Daljeet Singh Nirwan
Research and statistics
- Motoring offences statistics in Northern Ireland to 31 March 2022
- Reported road accidents, vehicles and casualties tables for Great Britain
- Reported road casualties Great Britain: older driver factsheet 2020
- Reported road casualties Great Britain, provisional results: 2021
- Provisional in-year statistics on reported road casualties
Policy papers and consultations
- Changes to HGV and bus driving tests and allowing car drivers to tow a trailer without an extra test
- Safe use rules for automated vehicles (AV)
- Senior Traffic Commissioner's Statutory Documents: 2022 revisions
- Protecting the public from repeat drug-driving offenders: call for evidence
- Expanding the offence of using a hand-held mobile phone while driving to include non-connected mobile application actions
Transparency and freedom of information releases
- Public inquiries: timeliness of case listings
- Operators who have committed drivers’ hours offences in Great Britain
- Highways England: reported road casualties on the strategic road network (SRN)
- Penalty notices issued for driving through a red X sign
- A11 roadworks use of Carnell’s safety camera van