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If you are involved in a collision the City of London, which causes damage or injury to any other person, vehicle, animal or property, you MUST
[Law RTA 1988 sect 170]
If another person is injured and you do not produce your insurance certificate at the time of the crash to a police officer or to anyone having reasonable grounds to request it, you MUST
This notice is issued to drivers when a police officer has requested to see driving documents and the driver does not have them.
The notice is issued:
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As part of the vehicle defect rectification scheme (VDRS), this notice is issued to drivers of vehicles that have a defect. This can range from a broken brake light, to having worn tyres.
Once a VDRS notice has been issued, the driver has 14 days in which to get the defect rectified, and then presented to a MOT garage in order to get their vehicle examined and their copy of the notice endorsed as proof the work has been completed. Once this has been done it must be returned by post to: City of London Police 182 Bishopsgate London EC2M 4NP
Non endorsable penalty notices are issued for a number of offences for which there is only a fine to pay.
There are two ranges of offences that lead to a fine:
Moving offences carry a fine of £30 and stationary offences have a fine of £40.
Information about how to pay, or how to contest a notice are all contained within the driver's copy of the notice.
Endorsable fixed penalty notices are issued for offences which, by law, have a mandatory endorsement of three penalty points on a driving licence and a £60 fine. A police officer can request that the driver produce additional driving documents, such as insurance.
The driving licence must be surrendered within seven days of the notice being issued. If you hold a new style licence consisting of a photo-card and paper counterpart, both parts must be surrendered.
Information regarding how to pay the fine or contest the notice are contained within the driver's copy of the notice.
The final decision regarding whether or not to charge someone for an offence is now usually undertaken by the Crown Prosecution Service not the police. For further information on the CPS, please visit the website www.cps.gov.uk.
Advanced stop lines are a set of white stop lines placed at junctions which are controlled by traffic lights. They have been created to allow a safe haven for cyclists at the head of a queue of traffic waiting for the traffic lights to change to green. Cyclists are required to enter this Advanced Stop Box area by the prescribed cycle lane. Drivers of vehicles must obey the rules relating to traffic lights (A reminder of these rules is listed below).
Where the road markings shown in the picture below have been placed in conjunction with Traffic light signals, a "stop line" in relation to those light signals means:
The first stop line is the first white stop line painted on the road surface a vehicle would cross on the approach to the traffic lights (apart from cyclists in a prescribed cycle lane);
The second stop line is the white stop line painted on the road surface closest to the traffic lights. This stop line is applicable to all road users.
When a vehicle approaches an advanced stop line system and the traffic lights at the junction change from green to amber, the vehicle must stop before the first stop line (closest to your vehicle). Unless the vehicle is either on the stop line or so close to the stop line that it would be unsafe to stop prior to the first stop line, then the vehicle may cross the first stop line but must stop before the second stop line.
When a GREEN signal is shown, it means that any vehicle may proceed beyond the stop line and proceed straight on or to the left or to the right, if it is safe to do so.
When an AMBER signal is shown, it means STOP. This is the same as for a red signal, except for when a vehicle is so close to the stop line that it cannot safely be stopped before the stop line, in which case it may continue as if a green light is shown.
When the traffic lights change to RED, all traffic must stop before the white stop line.
Vehicles proceeding beyond a stop line in accordance with the above must proceed with due regard to the safety of other road users and subject to any direction given by a constable in uniform or a traffic warden or to any other applicable prohibition or restriction.
Road Traffic Act 1988, Section 36 & Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions; Regulations 10 & 43(2)
If you fail to obey the traffic lights (as above), you are liable at the very least, to a £60 fine and your licence endorsed with 3 penalty points.
