Down a one way street the wrong way

[G-MAN2004]

Back in Feb my mum accidentally went down a one way street the wrong way after her satnav told her to turn down it. There happened to be a police car a few cars behind which of course pulled her over and that was that. She apologised and admitted guilt because obviously she should have been paying more attention, etc. No disputing that.

She's just had the letter back from the magistrates court though and she's been fined £400 and three points...

Does this not seem rather high? Looking online, most websites say it will be £100 fine and three points.


What's annoying is that she provided all the details of her finances which clearly show she wouldn't be able to afford to pay anything close to this amount in such a short length of time, so now I'm going to have to lend it...

A mate of mine got less for speeding and surely that's more dangerous than this...

 

[Gaygle]

Back in Feb my mum accidentally went down a one way street the wrong way after her satnav told her to turn down it. There happened to be a police car a few cars behind which of course pulled her over and that was that. She apologised and admitted guilt because obviously she should have been paying more attention, etc. No disputing that.

She's just had the letter back from the magistrates court though and she's been fined £400 and three points...

Does this not seem rather high? Looking online, most websites say it will be £100 fine and three points.


What's annoying is that she provided all the details of her finances which clearly show she wouldn't be able to afford to pay anything close to this amount in such a short length of time, so now I'm going to have to lend it...

A mate of mine got less for speeding and surely that's more dangerous than this...

Why did it even go to magistrates court? This stuff is normally sorted with a 3 pts £100 conditional offer.

Did she fail to reply to the ticket?

 

[BUDFORCE]

Yea I'm calling shenanigans.

It shouldn't have gone to court, I'm guessing you are not getting the full story.

 

[adidan]

Seems to be a £100 plus points unless she carried on driving or reversed back.

 

[ivrytwr3]

Has she missed/ignored the initial letter, not paid the on the spot fine? Sounds like the fine has escalated to the courts.

Should have been £100 fine and 3 points - more to the story?

Can I be fined for driving the wrong way down a one-way street?​

Both failing to comply with a traffic sign and careless driving carry £100 on-the-spot fines, as well as three penalty points on your licence.

Ignoring a traffic sign could even see you fined up to £1,000 if you contest the charge and it goes to court.

 

[Moobert]

 

[nlel1975]

Always worried that Google Maps will send me down the wrong street. There's a nearby road closed now permanently that has been pedestrianised that Google Maps still thinks you can drive down. Luckily I noticed it was closed a few weeks before I had to make the trip that would have involved going down that road.

On the day I would have noticed anyway but I like to plan in advance.

 

[Mujja]

Always worried that Google Maps will send me down the wrong street.

Had this recently while working in away. The road layout around the city centre had changed and every morning Google Maps would guide me down a bus only route and then go crazy with the re-routing. Getting food delivered to the hotel was also frustrating watching the drivers on the app going around in circles trying to get to my location.

In busy central areas, for roads I'm not familiar with, I hold back and try not to be the lead car. Less chance of driving through a bus gate.

 

[G-MAN2004]

Why did it even go to magistrates court? This stuff is normally sorted with a 3 pts £100 conditional offer.

Did she fail to reply to the ticket?

She wasn't given a fine when it happened. They took her details, explained the charge and then she received a letter about 4 months later.

In this letter it asked her to tick either guilty or not guilty, and whether or not she wanted to go to court. She put guilty and said no. This was then sent back and delivered with about three weeks left on the time limit.

The officer did ask at the time if she consented to doing an awareness course if the opportunity was there which she of course said yes, but this was never offered in the letter.

 

[Kenai]

Sounds like something went amiss, doubt they'd have been asking about awareness courses if they were planning on bypassing the FPN process anyway to send it straight to magistrates (which might be expected if they thought the offence was particularly bad).