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Hi all, I'm hoping you may be able to give me some advice. I have 12 points on my car licence, and the courts have not banned me through hardship at home. My question is, is there a way in which I can speed up the process of having points taken off my licence?! I'm desperate!
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Nope, the points are active for 3 years from the date of the offence and are removed after 4 years. Nothing can change that.0
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TadleyBaggie wrote: »Nope, the points are active for 3 years from the date of the offence and are removed after 4 years. Nothing can change that.
Another three points would. However he'd be off the road for six months.0 -
True enough.AndyMc..... wrote: »Another three points would. However he'd be off the road for six months.0 -
Why are you desperate? You've been fortunate not to have been banned and I hope your home situation improves. All you can really do is drive really carefully and wait for the various points to expire. I assume the insurance costs are really high, but in fairness, that's a fair penalty for accruing so many points.Hi all, I'm hoping you may be able to give me some advice. I have 12 points on my car licence, and the courts have not banned me through hardship at home. My question is, is there a way in which I can speed up the process of having points taken off my licence?! I'm desperate!
How essential is car ownership for you? Are you in a location/situation where you could sell the car and use the proceeds for public transport or occasional rental if it's needed? You'd bank the sale proceeds and avoid the costs of insurance, tax, MOT, servicing, petrol and so on, so you'd save a lot. If you don't trust yourself to drive carefully enough, it would also remove the risk of further infractions.0 -
Hi all, I'm hoping you may be able to give me some advice. I have 12 points on my car licence, and the courts have not banned me through hardship at home. My question is, is there a way in which I can speed up the process of having points taken off my licence?! I'm desperate!
Why are you desparate? Reading what you have said you have not been banned?
Drive legally ?0 -
Aylesbury_Duck wrote: »All you can really do is drive really carefully legally and wait for the various points to expire.
Fixed that for you and cut the waffle to make the only point that was neededSam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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As others have said, just be grateful that you haven't been banned and drive within the rules. Then you will have no further problems. I wouldn't be surprised if the local boys in blue are keeping an eye out for you if you put a foot wrong.0
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I call troll.0
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Hi all, I'm hoping you may be able to give me some advice. I have 12 points on my car licence, and the courts have not banned me through hardship at home. My question is, is there a way in which I can speed up the process of having points taken off my licence?! I'm desperate!
With a bit of luck it won't be your licence you lose next time...0 -
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