Is a speeding fine a criminal conviction ?

Question

I werent taken to court , I had three penalty points and a fine of £60 .
I allways see the question on application forms - "have you ever been convicted of a criminal offence "

I do have several spent convictions and just one unspent . The unspent will become spent in April next year .
Will the speeding fine count as a conviction or crimal offence?

I'm form England UK

Answer 1

At least in the US, there's a distinction between CRMINAL offenses and mere TRAFFIC offenses. I would imagine that the same distinction is made in the UK (where I'm assuming you are, because of your use of the pound symbol). So I think you can honestly say "no" on those application forms, assuming that you don't have any other convictions.

Answer 2

it is a conviction for your license records and certainly serious speeding convictions that result in a ban (i,e which you would normally get for doing well fast like 60-70+ in a residential 20-30 limit or well over 100 on a motorway but its not treated as an actual 'criminal' convicton the same way as like theft, robbery, deception, assault, fraud, manslaughter, rape, murder, shoplifting, drink driving, causing death by drink/dangerous driving or anything else along those lines cos 9/10 drivers would have the odd speeding ticket at some point in their driving life and farst majority of employers and everything really wouldn't give a damm bout it, only the exception of some driving jobs like taxi's etc that say you have to have a completly clean license or no more than 3 or 6 points etc and certainly no serious driving convictions like drink driving but speeding would rarely ever be an issue unless its a seriously bad speeding offence

Answer 3

Criminal Record Search Database : http://www.SearchVerifyInfo.com/Support

Answer 4

you have not been taken to court,so presumably you were not charged with a crime and you paid the fine,no criminal conviction is recorded against your name.

Answer 5

It depends where you are but I would doubt it. If you had been speeding too excessively you may have been convicted for dangerous driving, rather than speeding.

Answer 6

in the US it could be considered a crime if you were speeding under certain circumstances such as driving recklessly.