"The Courts Service says it has now been asking for system change for 15 years and yet its staff "currently have no power to ask for the driver number". A blame game has erupted as thousands of motorists are feared to be avoiding penalty points, due to a loophole on the gathering of driver numbers."
"One-month sample showed that, of penalty points unallocated to a driver, 19pc could have been imposed. This indicates a substantial portion of traffic violations go unrecorded and unpunished due to administrative failures in the driver identification process."
A significant loophole in the penalty points system enables motorists to evade traffic penalties due to incomplete driver number gathering. A one-month sample revealed that 19% of penalty points remain unallocated to drivers when they could have been imposed. The Courts Service has been requesting system changes for 15 years to address this issue, but staff currently lack the authority to request driver numbers from offenders. This gap in the system allows thousands of drivers to escape accountability for traffic violations, creating a blame game among authorities responsible for enforcement.
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