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Road Safety Bill [HL]

I gathered from what the noble Lord, Lord Hanningfield, said that some of those fixed penalties could give rise to endorsements. Coming from a rural area, the way in which people can accumulate endorsements—perhaps for a series of offences that are not particularly dangerous or particularly putting people at risk—has always worried me. We do many things in our lives every day that could lead to some sort of risk. It really concerns me that if people get a few endorsements they could lose their livelihoods or be cut off in rural areas from being able to go anywhere or do anything. That would put a strain on the family. The automatic ““12 endorsements and you are out”” can   be dangerous to family life and to people’s employment. We ought to be careful before we allow people to hand out endorsements willy-nilly. They sound terribly nice and easy and simple and not very nasty, but at 12 points they can affect people’s lives and economy quite severely.