Endorsement Codes on Driving Licences

Posted: Feb 11, 2016

CD10 Driving without due care and attention

CD40 Causing death by careless driving when unfit through drink

CD50 Causing death by careless driving when unfit through drugs

CD60 Causing death by careless driving owing to alcohol limit above the level

DD40 Dangerous driving

DD80 Causing death by dangerous driving

DR10 Driving or attempting to drive with alcohol level above limit

DR20 Driving or attempting to drive while unfit through drink

DR40 In charge of a vehicle while alcohol level above limit

DR50 In charge of a vehicle while unfit through drink

DR80 Driving or attempting to drive when unfit through drugs

SP30 Exceeding statutory speed limit on a public road

SP50 Exceeding speed limit on a motorway

UT50 Aggravated taking of a vehicle

ON THE SPOT PENALTIES

With effect from 1 April 2009, fixed penalty notices of 30, 60, 120 and 200, depending upon seriousness, can be imposed by police and VOSA enforcement officers at the roadside for the following offences:

A VOSA enforcement officer can apply six different penalties, three relating to the vehicle and three in regard to traffic offences, at one stop, with a maximum of two endorsable offences.

Apart from in Scotland, a police officer or VOSA enforcement officer can impose a financial penalty deposit requirement varying between 330 and 200depending on thenature of the offence, on a person without a satisfactory UK address who has been given notice of likely prosecution or a fixed penalty notice.

Overloading offences / Using a vehicle with a defective tyre / Contraventions of the EC, AETR and Domestic drivers hours and records regulations / Obstructing an officer in the exercise of his powers / Failure to comply with prohibition or direction in relation to driving a vehicle / Failure to comply with a direction to remove an overloaded vehicle.

Contraventions of the Community Authorisations Regulations / Using a trade licence for unauthorised purposes / Using a vehicle without an Operator s Licence / Failing to produce a driver CPC Qualification card / Using a vehicle with an insecure load / Breaches of the speed limiter requirements / Driving licence offences / Using an unsuitable vehicle.

In cases where vehicles have been issued with a prohibition notice, police and VOSA enforcement officers have the power to immobilise a vehicle. In such circumstances, the charge for release of the vehicle from the immobilisation device is 80, for the removal of the vehicle 160, for the storage of the vehicle 35 per day or part thereof, and for disposal of the vehicle 50.