Fixed Penalties - VOSA Release20th October 2009

VOSA enforcement officers can issue a graduated fixed penalty, and where the driver is unable to provide a satisfactory address within the UK, full payment is taken immediately as a deposit for offences such as mechanical defects or drivers hours.



More than £500,000 has already been collected in deposit payments since VOSA stated issuing fixed penalties on 28 May with over 60% of penalty notices being issued to the drivers of non UK based vehicles. Prior to the introduction of the new scheme, drivers of non UK based vehicles were usually dealt with by prohibition only.



VOSA examiners were at the same time provided with powers to immobilise prohibited vehicles considered to be a serious threat to road safety or where a driver has failed to make an immediate deposit payment.



Graduated Fixed Penalties Scheme Manager Karen Farr said: The results of this first qurter are encouraging.  This scheme enables us to level the playing field for all UK and foreign drivers.  We have already started to see an improvement in compliance and that is good news for operators, drivers and road safety generally".

 

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