CTC welcomes the fixed penalty notice for careless driving and the associated 50% increase in all motoring fixed penalties to £90, but urges that dangerous driving still needs to be dealt with by the courts.
The idea of a 'careless driving' fixed penalty notice (FPN) isn't new - the previous Government mentioned it in a consultation in 2008 and last year the Government's Strategic Framework for Road Safety introduced the idea formally into policy. Now they are consulting on how best to introduce the FPN, with the intention to divert many of the drivers who receive the penalty onto 'better driving courses', a practice already common with speeding.
