News - Totting Up

Steve MacNamara, General Secretary of the Licenced Taxi Drivers’ Association, has expressed concern about the increase in the number of taxi drivers being disqualified under totting up rules. He believes this sharp rise has been brought about by the introduction Read more...

Singer Richard Ashcroft, the former frontman of The Verve, has received a six-month driving prohibition from Lavender Hill Magistrates’ Court. Ashcroft pleaded guilty to speeding on a 40mph section of the M4 in Brentford, between junctions 2 and 3. The Read more...

Appearing in the last week of December at Lavender Hill Magistrates’ Court, 64-year-old Colin Salmon narrowly avoided a six-month driving ban. On 31 March 2025, Salmon, who has a recurring role in Eastenders and has appeared in three James Bond Read more...

At a sentencing hearing in Caernarfon Magistrates’ Court on December 9, a tractor driver escaped the mandatory 6-month driving ban after the court accepted an exceptional hardship argument. On October 19, 2024, at around 7:30pm, a police officer spotted Matthew Read more...

Former England rugby star Mark Cueto has had a driving ban overturned in Bolton Magistrates’ Court. A Mini registered to Cueto, 45, was caught travelling at 38mph in a 30mph zone in Stockport on October 6, 2025. Six points were Read more...

At a hearing on 13th October, an applicant for a private-hire licence had his application rejected by Middlesbrough Council’s Licencing Committee after a DVLA check revealed an undeclared driving offence. The applicant had failed to declare a six-month driving disqualification Read more...

Ex-Formula 1 driver Mark Blundell has been banned from driving for six months after his licence was endorsed with penalty points for a speeding offence. On November 30, 2024, Blundell was caught driving a Land Rover at 96mph, 26mph over Read more...

A 37-year-old woman has avoided a driving ban after being caught speeding on the M5. On Christmas Eve, 2025, Charlotte Tolley was driving between junctions 4a and 6 of the M5 when a speed camera detected the vehicle exceeding the Read more...

A Cheshire-based businessman has avoided a totting up ban after using the exceptional hardship argument at a hearing in Chester Magistrates’ Court. Craig McKenzie Abbotson, 65, of Fulshaw Park South, Wilmslow, had pleaded guilty to using a hand-held mobile phone Read more...

Penalty points can be added to your licence for a wide variety of driving offences, and the number of points given will reflect the seriousness of the offence. Under the “totting up” rules, a driver who has 12 or more Read more...

Two stars of the Harry Potter film franchise have been banned from driving on the same day, and in the same court, as each other. Emma Watson, who shot to fame in 2001 playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter Read more...

Tottenham Hotspur defender Cristian Romero has been given a mandatory 6-month driving ban after totting up 12 or more penalty points on his licence. On 11th December 2024, speed cameras caught Romero driving his Lamborghini Uris at 60mph in a Read more...