Road Traffic Offences

We can help defend all types of motoring offences including:

• Speeding. These offences rely on evidence taken from various technical devices such as speed cameras. Sometimes equipment is incorrectly used or records incorrectly kept or unlawful road signs used.
• Using a mobile phone while driving. This offence can potentially expose you to other allegations such as careless or dangerous driving. Holding a mobile phone is not in itself illegal, you have to be judged to have been using it.
• Failure to provide a driver’s identity. If it is evident that you did not know, and with reasonable diligence could not have ascertained who the driver was, then you should not accept the charge.
• Driving without insurance or permitting someone to drive without insurance. A “special reasons” defence may apply where you may have been misled into thinking you were insured.
• Failure to stop after an accident or report an accident within the prescribed time limit. You may quite reasonably have no knowledge that an accident had taken place.
• Dangerous driving. Potentially a serious offence particularly if accused of “causing death by dangerous driving”.
• Careless driving. A less serious crime than dangerous driving but still carries serious consequences, such as a fine and disqualification.
• Drink driving over the prescribed alcohol limit or drunk in charge of a vehicle.
• Failure to provide a specimen. The police may not have followed the correct procedure or there may have been a medical risk in providing a sample.
• Drug driving. To secure a conviction it must be proven that a person was unfit to drive, which impaired driving.
• Driving while disqualified. Mitigating circumstances may apply.
• Driving without a licence or not driving in accordance with a licence.
• Totting up bans from the accumulation of penalty points.
• Traffic light offences.

We can also provide advice to new drivers charged within the two-year probationary period.