{"id":988,"date":"2013-09-05T19:12:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T19:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/?p=988"},"modified":"2013-09-05T19:16:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T19:16:07","slug":"woman-still-driving-with-42-points-on-her-licence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/woman-still-driving-with-42-points-on-her-licence\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Still Driving With 42 Points On Her Licence."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Some people just never learn&#8230; or should that be don&#8217;t care?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was shocked and disappointed to read an article which highlighted new Government figures concerning driving licence endorsements.<\/p>\n<p>In a nut-shell, these figures state that currently:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">7,621 people are still on the road with 12 points or more.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>8 motorists are still driving with 30 or more points on their licences.<\/li>\n<li>One unnamed woman driver is still on the roads with a record 42 penalty points: despite being more than 3 times over the threshold that would generally lead to a ban.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is thought that a failure in communicate between the courts and the DVLA is at fault for these drivers still being on the road &#8211; particularly in instances whereby drivers clocked up repeat points over a short time. \u00a0Under normal circumstances,\u00a0drivers would be banned if they accumulate 12 points on their licence over a three-year period: this is known as the &#8216;totting-up&#8217; system.<\/p>\n<p>What disappoints me most about all of this is that it is obvious to me that some drivers never seem to learn from their actions, which for me, is a blatant display of disregard for the safety of both themselves and other road users.<\/p>\n<p>This is a dangerous combination&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article, please follow the link below:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Daily mail Article Link.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2411947\/Still-driving-42-points-license-Woman-motorists-30-road.html?ITO=1490&amp;ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2411947\/Still-driving-42-points-license-Woman-motorists-30-road.html?ITO=1490&amp;ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Until next time, stay safe folks!<br \/>\nChris<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Official Website.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Facebook Post link.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/drivingschoolssunderland\/posts\/622657491108286\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/drivingschoolssunderland\/posts\/622657491108286<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people just never learn&#8230; or should that be don&#8217;t care?!? I was shocked and disappointed to read an article which highlighted new Government figures concerning driving licence endorsements. In a nut-shell, these figures state that currently: 7,621 people are still on the road with 12 points or more. 8 motorists are still driving with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[10,11,12,39,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,40,20,42,21,22,41,38,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}