Endorsable offence or not?

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Hi,

Today I was pulled over by an unmarked police car for going through a No Entry sign. The officer gave me a Fixed Penalty Notice and told me that I would recieve 3 points and would have to pay a £60 fine.

Worried about how this would affect my insurance premium I did various quotes on online insurance sites however I couldn't find my offence code or description (contravening a no entry sign). The offence code is E186.

After a short search on google I found this site. It states that 'contravening a no entry sign' is a Non-Endorsable offence, which makes sense as to why I cannot find the offence on the insurance sites.

So, is this offence endorsable or not?

Thanks :)
 
splitz said:
Hi,

Today I was pulled over by an unmarked police car for going through a No Entry sign. The officer gave me a Fixed Penalty Notice and told me that I would recieve 3 points and would have to pay a £60 fine.

Worried about how this would affect my insurance premium I did various quotes on online insurance sites however I couldn't find my offence code or description (contravening a no entry sign). The offence code is E186.

After a short search on google I found this site. It states that 'contravening a no entry sign' is a Non-Endorsable offence, which makes sense as to why I cannot find the offence on the insurance sites.

So, is this offence endorsable or not?

Thanks :)
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Maybe I should be more careful from now on...I have a tedency to do that in some carparks when they are empty and it saves me having to go round the long way. V naughty I know, but I had no idea it was an endorsable offence.
 
panthro said:
Maybe I should be more careful from now on...I have a tedency to do that in some carparks when they are empty and it saves me having to go round the long way. V naughty I know, but I had no idea it was an endorsable offence.
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I'm not sure but i doubt a carpark is the same, reason being its probably private property and hence not covered. Going the wrong way down a one way street past a no entry however is gonna get you busted like splitz.
 
Clarkey said:
thats some serious bad luck, im intrigued, what were you entering that you weren't supposed to?
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Opposite work there's a road with No Entry and just after the No Entry is a row of 2-hour parking spaces. I went to park there (I would move it when the 24-hr parking car park opposite had a space free) and the unmarked car flashed its blue grille lights and ordered me out of my car. The rest is history.
 
The DVLA codes are all the things the police can endorse your license with. I have never even heard of this E186 code myself. A Google search reveals nothing either. :confused: Are you sure E186 is not the "form number" rather than the Offence Code? Either way, they should have written the official code on to say what you did.

I'd ring DVLA and find out.
 
It's definately the Offence Code. Bizarre. Supposing they've made a silly mistake and wrote a non-existent code, could I still be charged with an offence based on the description?

I'll phone the DVLA tomorrow as you have said. Thanks :)
 
I go done for this years ago and was non endorsable , think the code was TS10

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doesn't look like TS10 but it was definately TSxx and was non endorsable , was that long ago though that the fine was £12 :D
 
splitz said:
It's definately the Offence Code. Bizarre. Supposing they've made a silly mistake and wrote a non-existent code, could I still be charged with an offence based on the description?

I'll phone the DVLA tomorrow as you have said. Thanks :)
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Usually if the plods make a **** up then it can be blown out. Doesn't sound like you've been given a proper endorsement code so definately worth calling. It may be right but there's just nothing that suggests otherwise.

.SJ said:
A few months ago I was at Heathrow dropping my sister off, I got into the wrong lane and I went through a "No Motor Vehicles" sign. As soon as I had done it I realised my mistake but I wasn't about to try and correct it - the only sensible thing to do is follow the road and make my way to the drop-off point. I'm not about to start reversing down a one way road.

I'm driving slow and I get signalled to stop by a police officer... who asks me what I'm doing and then he tells me I've just gone through 4 "No Motor Vehicles" signs. Fair enough I thought, but after going through the 1st sign, the others in my opinion are not helpful to me.

He says to me "I could point my gun in your face if I thought you were a threat" and "I could also have your licence as you've just accumulated 12 points." (I had been driving less than two years at this point so he only needed to do me twice for it, but I kept quiet.)

I made my apologies, didn't make any excuses and he told me to carry on as I was. Don't know why I'm typing this but I thought the officer was being unnecessarily harsh, but he let me go with just a warning. I guess he had better things to be doing than writing tickets. :-/
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Just as an idea, maybe it was for Emergency Vehicle Access which might explain the copper getting slightly irate. Could be complete rubbish though and he's just being a dodgy git.
 
Rotty said:
I go done for this years ago and was non endorsable , think the code was TS10

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doesn't look like TS10 but it was definately TSxx and was non endorsable , was that long ago though that the fine was £12 :D
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they give a TS10 for going through a red/disobeying traffic light signals (intentional or not) and they are endorsable :( :o
 
Phantom said:
they give a TS10 for going through a red/disobeying traffic light signals (intentional or not) and they are endorsable :( :o
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yep , cant remember the code but it was "contravening a no entry sign"
 
Just found out that the 'E' code is specific to each police force and that my DVLA offence code will be different (probably a TS70). Oh well.
 
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