e Road Traffic Act specifies 2 types of traffic offences: stationary or parking and moving offences. The registered owner of a vehicle is liable for parking offences (when a parking ticket has been issued but not paid) obstruction (if he leaves his car in an inconvenient place), meters (parking at meter bays) yellow lines (when parking restrictions are violated) abandoned vehicles.
  The common moving offences are reckless driving careless and inconsiderate driving failure to stop after an accident, speeding, non-compliance with traffic lights, drunken driving or driving while intoxicated.
  The Criminal Law Act simply states: “a person who drives a motor vehicle on a road recklessly shall be guilty of an offence”.
  There are three common defenses to reckless driving:
  1) The driving wasn’t reckless.
  2) The driving arose through a sudden mechanical defect over which the driver had no control.
  3) A sudden loss of control or concentration through some special reason can also provide a defense.
  Reckless driving is one of the few motoring offences which can be tried at the Crown Court.
  Penalties include obligatory endorsement and discretionally disqualification and range from month’s prison to 2 years prison sentence.
  Careless and inconsiderate driving is an offence for anyone who drives
  “without due care and attention or reasonable consideration for other persons using the road”.
  Examples of inconsiderate driving include using undipped headlights at night so that they dazzle other motorist

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