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Speeding penalties are set to increase with your speed. Jennifer Ball reports.
THE GOVERNMENT has launched a consultation on graduated penalties in a bid to create a fairer punishment system for speeding drivers.
Transport Secretary Alistair Darling explains that the proposed new scheme will include reduced penalties for drivers who are caught just over the speed limit with higher penalties for those significantly over the top.
Penalties will range from £40 and two penalty points for the less serious offences up to £100 and six points for the most serious.
The Freight Transport Association has welcomed the move. "It seems sensible that there should be a range of penalties with the gravity of the offence fitting the punishment," says a spokesman.
The RAC Foundation believes that education is better than disqualification. Executive director Edmund King explains: "Inappropriate speed is a problem that needs to be addressed by a package of measures including driver education, a review of speed limits to ensure realistic limits and better signing of speed limits including interactive warning signs."
But Mary Williams, chief execu tive of road safety campaign group Brake, says her organisation is appalled: At just 35mph the risk of death on impact with someone on foot or bicycle is far higher than at 20mph, which is a far safer limit in heavily built up areas.
"Our already excessive 30mph limits are not targets that drivers should be allowed to flout with a minimal penalty — but this proposal will allow just that."