
If you are caught speeding or jumping a red light by a safety camera, you’ll get a letter from the police. It describes the offence and tells you how to see details online, including a photograph showing the registration number and where possible driver.
If you weren’t travelling a long way over the speed limit, you may be offered a place on a speed awareness course. If you complete this course you will not get a fine or points on your licence.
If you are not offered a place on a course, you can’t request one. Instead you’ll get a conditional offer of fixed penalty or a court summons.
If you were driving a company car, the letter will go to the company. But they must identify you as the driver, and you will need to go on the course or pay the fine and take the points.
Don’t try to avoid prosecution
Some drivers caught on camera try to avoid prosecution. But this can be a criminal offence. Don’t be tempted.
Examples of trying to avoid prosecution include:
- saying that the driver was someone else, like a person from abroad, from a fictitious address or an elderly relative who no longer drives
- saying that the driver was a person who doesn’t actually exist
- claiming their vehicle wasn’t there at the time and that their registration number must be being used illegally
- claiming that it could be one of several people who was driving and not knowing who it was.
- having a wife, husband or partner falsely admitting to being the driver.
Greater Manchester Police is fully aware of all the ways people try to avoid prosecution, and has a dedicated ‘Road Crime Unit’ to stop people getting away with it.
If you make a false claim like this, you are perverting the course of justice and could face a lengthy prison sentence.
Such a life-changing punishment is simply not worth the risk compared to the relatively minor hardship of going on a course or getting points on a licence and a fine.
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Visit the free travel scheme page
Free travel for 48 hours for Ukrainians arriving in Greater Manchester
To help Ukrainian nationals arriving in Greater Manchester, Metrolink tram services, rail services and the majority of bus and coach services in the region are being provided free of charge.
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Visit our Coronavirus page
Face coverings still welcome
Face coverings are no longer compulsory but are encouraged
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View the proposal document
Our Buses
New dates have been proposed for local service contracts in Bolton and Wigan.
-
Visit our contactless travel page
Using contactless to travel on Metrolink?
Make sure you touch-in and touch-out using the SAME device at the start and end of your journey.
-
Find out which lines will be affected
Metrolink improvement works
In May, planned improvement works will take place on Metrolink. These works will affect various different lines across a number of dates.