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CD20 : driving without reasonable consideration for other road users
Checked 22 July 2026 · How we check our figures
What it means
CD20 is CD10 proved by selfishness rather than lapse: driving without reasonable consideration, s. 3 RTA 1988, and the statute asks for a victim, other persons must actually be inconvenienced. The soaked pedestrian at the puddle is the folk example, and a fair one: deliberate discourtesy at the wheel is exactly what the limb exists for. Range and consequences track its sibling.
Points and how long it stays
3 to 9 points.
On the licence for 4 years from the date of the offence.
The CD family is one driving standard, careless, stretched across three different clocks, and the clocks are the map (gov.uk, checked 2026-07-22): CD10 to CD33 run 4 years from the offence, the drink and drug quartet CD40 to CD70 runs 11 years from conviction on the same shelf as the DR codes, and CD80 with CD90 run 4 years from conviction. The ladder underneath is consequence, not driving: s. 3 RTA 1988 is fine-only in the ordinary case, s. 2C adds serious injury and custody, s. 2B and s. 3ZB add a death, and s. 3A adds death plus drink or drugs, with a ceiling the 2022 reforms lifted to life imprisonment. Careless itself is defined once, driving below what would be expected of a competent and careful driver, and it never changes on the way up. The drink and drug mechanics sit in the drink driving guide at /fines/guides/drink-driving.
The usual route
The roadside menu matches CD10: an endorsable fixed penalty or a course for the ordinary case, a court date for the argued one.
If it goes to court
In court the offence is fine-only in the ordinary case, income-banded; mechanics in the fine bands guide.
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Authority
gov.uk, Penalty points (endorsements), checked 2026-07-22