Motoring Offence Solicitors in Dudley

At Waldrons Solicitors we have extensive experience in defending clients facing driving offences and we understand the consequences of receiving penalty points or losing your driving licence. Our Dudley Team has experience in representing those accused of serious driving offences, such as causing death by dangerous driving, and those accused of more minor offences, such as driving without a licence or insurance.

Situated on The Inhedge, just off Dudley High Street and opposite Dudley Magistrates’ Court, we are able to represent people accused of or charged with driving offences in Dudley. Our driving solicitor experts have been able to help our client’s keep their driving licences, or where they face a mandatory disqualification, assist in reducing the length of the disqualification to get our client’s back on the road. It is important that you get early legal advice if you find yourself accused of a driving offence by calling Waldrons Solicitors.

Drink driving is a criminal offence and one of the most common offences Waldrons are instructed to assist with. If you are found to be driving with more than 35 micrograms of alcohol per 100 milliliters of breath, you are likely to find yourself prosecuted for a driving offence. There is a 12 month minimum disqualification from driving for drink driving offences.

As well as a disqualification from driving, drink driving offences also attract a separate penalty, ranging from a fine up to a custodial sentence for more serious drink driving offences. For example, a driver who is found driving with between 60 and 89 micrograms of alcohol per millilitres of breath faces a disqualification for a period between 17 and 22 months, as well as a separate penalty of a fine or a community order.

An offence of driving without due care and attention (also known as careless driving) is committed when a driver’s driving falls below the standard expected of a competent and careful driver. Some examples of careless driving include driving too close to another vehicle, turning into the path of another vehicle and misusing lanes to gain advantage over other drivers. Where the careless driving causes the death of another person, an offence of causing death by careless driving may have been committed.

If a driver is found to have caused death by careless or inconsiderate driving, the possible sentence depends on the nature of their driving any aggravating factors that exist. Where the driving is careless arising from momentary inattention with no aggravating factors, then the starting point for this offence would be a medium level community order. In comparison, where the driving falls not far short of dangerous driving, the starting point for sentencing purposes is a 15 month custodial sentence. Aggravating factors including committing other driving offences at the same time, previous convictions for driving offences and causing injury to other people in addition to the death.