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.