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Depending on the nature of the offence, what road you were on and how much you exceeded the speed limit, you will normally be issued three to six penalty points, which must remain on your licence for four years from the offence date.

If you’ve received a driving conviction, you may find it challenging to secure affordable car insurance. Many mainstream insurers hesitate to provide coverage for drivers with convictions, but there are options available through specialist insurers like Insurance Revolution. We specialise in helping drivers with a range of convictions, including drink driving, drug driving, and other motoring offences, find tailored insurance policies.

If you have been convicted of drunk driving, the judge may request that you complete a drunk driving rehabilitation course. What are drink-driving rehabilitation courses like? We’ve compiled some facts about these courses and the type of things you can expect if you attend one.

The current English drink drive limit is 35 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, which is confusing enough as it is before you begin to consider what factors, other than alcoholic drinks, can affect your blood alcohol content.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) defines dangerous driving as the driver’s behaviour, not what the driver believes. A driver may think they are driving safely when they are committing a dangerous driving offence.

When Police pull a driver over, they are usually concerned with the driver's Blood Alcohol Content or Concentration. They usually measure BAC in concentration of alcohol in the bloodstream and is measured as mass per volume.

In short, yes. It is illegal for anyone to impersonate the named driver and take the practical driving test, the theory test or both. This may seem like a very obvious answer, but some people get, or in some cases, pay, other people to take parts of their driving test for them.

The police can impound vehicles for a number of reasons, from persons caught drink driving to drivers who do not have a valid MOT. While you naturally want to get your vehicle back as quickly as possible, it is also in your financial interests to do so, as you will be charged for each day your car is in the police impound.

The rules surrounding the transferring of penalty points that have been accrued abroad are quite complicated. Originally, if a European police officer stops a British driver for a motoring offence, the officer can issue an on-the-spot fine and escort the motorist to a cash point.