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Stoke City footballer Peter Crouch disqualified from driving

October 18th, 2012 by Marcus

Premier league striker Peter Crouch has been disqualified from driving for six months after clocking up 21 penalty points on his licence.

In March 2012, Crouch was recorded travelling 69mph in a 40mph zone and 70mph in a 40mph zone in April.

The footballer was automatically banned under ‘totting-up’ procedures.

He was fined £1,300 at Nuneaton Magistrates’ Court for two offences of failing to identify the driver of a vehicle alleged to have exceeded the speed limit on the M42/M6 toll road in Warwickshire.

Crouch was also ordered to pay £170 in costs and had his licence endorsed with a further 12 penalty points giving him an automatic disqualification.

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QPR midfielder Kieron Dyer fined for speeding

August 3rd, 2012 by Marcus

Footballer Kieron Dyer has been fined for a speeding offence after failing to attend court.

The QPR midfielder was due to stand trial at Lowesoft Magistrates’ Court but did not appear for the hearing.

Dyer pleaded guilty in his absence to an alternative charge of speeding by driving at 50mph in a 40mph zone.

He also pleaded not guilty to a separate charge of failing to identify the driver of the vehicle.

The 33-year-old received three points on his previously clean licence and fined £60.

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Steve Coogan found not guilty of speeding

July 17th, 2012 by Marcus

Comedian Steve Coogan has been cleared of speeding after it emerged a friend was driving his vehicle when it was caught doing 39mph in a 30mph zone.

Coogan, was accused of failing to identify who was behind the wheel when it was caught last October.

The comedian told Brighton Magistrates’ Court it had ‘slipped my mind’ that his friend was driving.

He added that at the time of the speeding offence, he was on the telephone to the Guardian newspaper dictating an article and had later made stringent efforts to find out who was the driver.

He was cleared at the magistrate said the case against him had not been proved beyond reasonable doubt.

Brighton Magistrates’ Court was previously told a six point penalty for Coogan would have triggered an automatic driving ban under totting up.

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Chris Huhne in court over speeding claims

June 1st, 2012 by Marcus

The former cabinet minister Chris Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce appeared at Southwark Crown Court today accused of perverting the course of justice.

The Liberal Democrat, is alleged to have asked Pryce to take his penalty points for a speeding offence almost a decade ago.

Pryce pleaded not guilty to the claims while Huhne did not enter a plea.

The pair face a further hearing next month with a two week trial set for October.

 

 

 

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Jail for ‘speeding’ driver who gave false name

May 23rd, 2012 by Marcus

A motorist who supplied false details when he was caught ‘speeding’ has been jailed for 28 days.

Kevin Miller, was found guilty of perverting the course of justice after trying to getting of with a speeding offence.

The paperwork was sent to Miller but he filled in the name of another person.

The innocent driver was fined without knowing and failed to pay, which resulted in the case going to court, where he was banned in his absence because he did not realise he had been summonsed to attend.

The first the driver knew of the case was when he received a letter from the DVLA informing him that his licence had been revoked.

Police launched an investigation into the case when he claimed he knew nothing about the driving offence.

Miller was arrested for perverting the court of justice and admitted he was the one behind the wheel.

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Plymouth Argyle manager Carl Fletcher admits reopened speeding charge

May 9th, 2012 by Marcus

Plymouth Argyle manager Carl Fletcher has apologised to a court after he caught speeding.

Fletcher, persuaded magistrates’ to reopen his case after he was previously convicted in his absence.

He was previously found guilty of failing to identify the driver, but Fletcher said he knew nothing about the case until it appeared in a local newspaper as his mother-in-law had misplaced the court summons.

Magistrates’ set aside the conviction and allowed him to plead guilty to speeding.

The court heard how Fletcher’s Audi Q7 was caught by a camera at 40mph in a 30mph zone.

Fletcher said originally both himself and his wife were driving the car on that day but they could not remember who was driving at that particular moment.

Magistrates fined him £330, ordered that he pay £65 in costs and £15 surcharge.  His licence was also endorsed with three penalty points.

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Man who used dead wife’s name to evade speeding tickets spared jail

May 1st, 2012 by Marcus

A bankrupt man who used his dead wife’s name to avoid speeding offences was spared jail by a court.

Christopher Bingley, was caught speeding four times between August 2010 and April 2011 but because he was driving his dead wife’s car, the speeding tickets were issued in her name and Bingley knowingly paid off the fines in her name.

When the fourth offence triggered a court appearance for his wife, Bingley took police advice and attended with a coroner’s letter to prove his wife’s death.

After the court appearance, police inquiries began and he was shown on CCTV in his wife’s vehicle on all four occasions.

Bingley previously pleaded guilty to three counts of perverting the course of justice.

Judge Peter Benson sentenced Bingley to six months in prison, suspended for two years.

He was also banned from driving for nine months and given a four month curfew, whereby between the hours of 7pm and 6am he must stay at his home address.

Judge Benson said that after hearing about Bingley’s past convictions he only had one choice – to jail him.

Bingley committed two offences of driving while disqualfied, one of which resulted in a short jail term in 2000 and another offence for driving without insurance in 1999.

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Speeding penalty point dodgers face prison

March 19th, 2012 by admin

Police are prosecuting growing numbers of criminals who help motorists dodge speeding penalty points.

In one case a man from Greater Manchester was jailed for seven years for helping around 700 motorists avoid penalty points.

Motorists taking part in the crime often blame fictitious drivers for their offence but now police are warning that those caught will likely to be jailed.

BBC 5 live Investigates was told that a number of different methods used by motorists who wish to avoid penalty points on their licenses.

In some cases motorists will fill in the forms falsely claiming someone else was driving their car and in other cases, forms are given to criminals who put fictitious names and addresses on them.
A taxi driver also spoke of how he provided false information to the police to allow 150 other drivers to dodge speeding points over a six year period.

He began doing it for other people after he was caught speeding himself and a friend told him how to avoid having penalty points added to his license. Charging up to £200 a time, he believed he wasn’t committing an offence.

After being caught by police, he was jailed for 16 months for perverting the course of justice.

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Speeding biker jailed for trying to avoid prosecution – North Wales Police – Speeding Solicitor

February 29th, 2012 by admin

A motorcyclist caught speeding 84mph in a 30mph zone has been jailed for 18 weeks after trying to avoid the speeding offence by claiming he had sold his bike. Keith Darch, from Abergele, Conwy, admitted perverting the court of justice.

North Wales Police sent the biker a Section 172 form asking who had been riding the bike at the time of the alleged offence. Darch, the registered keeper, returned the form claiming someone else was the rider and claimed he had sold the bike around the time of the alleged offence.

Darch later admitted in court that he was the driver at the time.

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