Contraventions
Penalty Charge Notices are issued to vehicles seen committing moving traffic offences.
If you receive a Penalty Charge Notice, then you must decide whether to:
Below is list of some of these restrictions and what they mean to prevent you from receiving a fine.
31 - Entering and stopping in a box junction when prohibited
Yellow box junctions
- You should not enter the yellow box unless your exit is clear
- You may enter the box and wait when you want to turn right and are only stopped from doing so by oncoming traffic, or by other vehicles waiting to turn right.
- Gyratory box junctions are marked on the carriageway with yellow crisscross lines and at signalled roundabouts you should not enter the box unless you can cross over it completely without stopping.
- Yellow boxes are enforced with a camera, and you will receive a penalty charge notice through the post.
More information about yellow box junctions.
50 - (Right, Left or U Turns) - Performing a prohibited manoeuvre
No U Turn, No Right Turn, No Left Turn
- You must not perform a manoeuvre that is prohibited by the sign.
- This is enforced with a camera and you will receive a penalty charge notice through the post.
- An authorised vehicle may make an otherwise banned manoeuvre if it is in the permitted class to do so. The types of vehicle permitted to make an otherwise banned turn will always be shown by additional signage.
More information about banned turns.
51 - Failing to comply with a no entry sign
No Entry
- You must not pass these signs
- Authorised vehicles can pass these signs if it is a permitted class to do so, the types of vehicles permitted to enter will always be shown by additional signage