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CD30 : driving without due care and attention or without reasonable consideration for other road users
Checked 22 July 2026 · How we check our figures
What it means
CD30 is the both-limbs form: the charge as prosecutors often draft it, due care and reasonable consideration pleaded together under s. 3 RTA 1988, and the record keeps the combined wording. For the reader of a licence it means nothing different from CD10 or CD20; which of the three appears is an artefact of how the charge was written, not of how bad the driving was. The range, the clock and the exits are identical.
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