Totting Up

The majority of driving offences, whatever the severity will often result in the receiving of penalty points. For more information on the number of penalty points usually received for a particular offence, please visit our Driving Penalties, Fines and Bans page. Totting up is imposed when a motorist receives 12 penalty points within a 3 year period. If you have received 12 or more penalty points, call Carter Moore Solicitors today on 08458 737 333 or complete our enquiry form and one of our motoring solicitors will be in touch within 24 hours.

What is Totting Up?

If you have accumulated 12 penalty points within a 3 year period, the totting up procedure is enforced. These penalty points can have been as a result of a number of separate and unrelated motoring offences or, if the courts deemed your driving offence so serious, they issued you with 12 or more penalty points.

Court guidelines state that if you have received 12 penalty points within a 3 year period this consequently results in a 6 month minimum disqualification. During this disqualification period, you are not permitted to drive any motor vehicle anywhere in the UK.

Can I Avoid Disqualification?

Many believe that totting up holds a compulsory disqualification however; the disqualification is at the discretion of the court. To avoid a driving ban you must convince the court that the motoring offences arose due to “exceptional hardship”. Proving exceptional hardship is the only way you can avoid a driving ban from totting up and these must show that the circumstances were not reasonably foreseeable amongst other factors.

Carter Moore’s motoring solicitors are experts in motoring offences and we can advise and assist you on exceptional hardship and all other matters relating to totting up 12 penalty points or more.

If you have received 12 or more points it is essential you seek specialist legal advice, call Carter Moore Motoring Solicitors today on 08458 737 333. Alternatively please complete our online enquiry form and one of our totting up solicitors will be in touch within 24 hours.