Drivers swap penalty points to keep licence clean Goole Today
One in twenty (6%) UK drivers would be willing to take the rap for someone else’s penalty points, according to new research from LV= car insurance.
Among all UK licence holders 3,823,544 currently hold penalty points with the vast majority (82%) receiving points for speeding[2]. Motorists who are caught speeding receive three to 12 points per conviction and anyone who has twelve points on their licence is usually banned from driving.
According to new research, one in twenty drivers say they would be willing to lie and take on penalty points for a friend or relative. Two thirds (66%) of these say they would do it to ensure their friend was not disqualified from driving and over half (59%) say they would do it to protect their friend’s livelihood as they would lose their job if their licence was taken away. A fifth (21%) say they would be prepared to take on points for a friend because despite incurring penalty points, their friend is a safe driver.
Of those who admitted taking on someone else’s penalty points, 6% said they were paid to do it. Since 2001, approximately 300,000 drivers have lied and said they were driving their friend or partner’s car when they were caught speeding and taken on the penalty points incurred by the offence.
