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Parliament to consider road safety plans
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VIPs are to debate a more flexible
-system of penalty points and in-the-spot fines for foreign drivers. Sally Nash reports NTRODUCING A fairer and nore flexible penalty-point system Or speeding and imposing fines on oreign drivers at the roadside are ust two of the proposals contained n the Road Safety Bill, reintroluced to Parliament last week.
The bill, which ran out of time in he last Parliamentary session and s largely unchanged. contains a raft of ideas designed to improve safety on UK roads.
As part of a move to introduce a graduated penalty point scheme for speeding "to reflect the level of offending", drivers might receive two penalty points instead of three if they exceed limits "slightly-.
Truck drivers have complained their livelihoods are at risk because they are racking up three penalty points each time they slip slightly over the speed limit.
And the government has admitted that there are considerable differences in the degree of excess speeding by drivers caught by speeding cameras.
llowever, much of the detail in terms of fines and penalty points has yet to be worked out, according to a spokeswoman for the Department for Transport.
"There has been a lot of speculation that minor infringements might be subject to two points but there needs to be consultation over the whole issue of fixed penalties and fines." she says.
Road safety campaign group Brake had called on the government to drop its proposals for graduated fines for speeding. It objected to the proposal to lower the penalty for speeding of up to 39mph in a 30mph zone.
The bill also contains a proposal to fine foreign drivers on the spot for endorseable offences. Offending drivers would pay a 'deposit' at the roadside.
At the moment the DfT is proposing that this deposit will be equal to the sum which would have been payable if it had been a fixed penalty or, in more serious cases which warrant prosecution, the sum of the likely court fine.
At the same time new powers for Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA) officers will enable them to issue fixed penalty notices to UK and non-UK resident drivers.