Recent proposals by the Department of Transport, suggest that people caught driving carelessly should no longer be taken to Court but dealt with by way of a fixed penalty. Careless driving comprises offences such as failing to signal, sudden braking, driving too close to the vehicle in front, swerving and lack of lights at night.
The Department of Transport state that making careless driving a fixed-penalty offence "will enable the police to enforce with a minimum of bureaucracy against careless drivers who admit their fault."
Currently, and mainly due to the paperwork involved police are unlikely to prosecute motorists for careless driving. The number of prosecutions in the last two decades has fallen by two thirds.
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